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ANN has confirmed that aviation’s resident ‘bad boy’ David Riggs has died in a crash of his Lancair while in China for an airshow. The accident occurred outside Shenyang when Riggs Experimental Amateur-Built Lancair 320 went down in a lake. Unfortunately, Riggs had a passenger that was also killed. The latest addition to Boeing's Dreamliner stable ... the longer, higher-capacity, dash 9, made its first flight in the skies over Washington State Tuesday. The airliner lifted off the runway just after 11:00 am PDT and flew for abo
Aero Linx: The Westchester Aviation Association (WAA)
The Westchester Aviation Association (WAA) is the voice of general aviation at Westchester County Airport (HPN). WAA represents a growing number of individuals, businesses, and corporations from all over the United States but primarily from the Northeast. The goals of the membership are to:
Promote the value and benefit of HPN to the general public, government officials and the media.
Promote harmony, coordination and cooperation within the local aviation community.
Promote safe, secure and environmentally friendly operating practices.
Promote enhancement of aviation facilities at HPN that
Kollsman Window
A barometric scale window of a sensitive altimeter used to adjust the altitude for the altimeter setting. The altimeter uses static pressure as its source of operation. Air is denser at sea level than aloft—as altitude increases, atmospheric pressure decreases. This difference in pressure at various levels causes the altimeter to indicate changes in altitude. Most altimeters are equipped with an adjustment knob located at the bottom of the instrument to manually compensate for the changes in atmospheric pressure.. This is called the barometric pressure setting window or “Kollsman Window.”
“This tower is part of our commitment to maintaining the world’s safest aviation system,” said “Palm Springs is a vastly different airport than it was in 1967, and this new tower will give controllers better views of planes on the airfield and approaching the airport.”
Source: FAA Administrator Michael Huerta on the FAA's completion of a new, $25M environmentally friendly airport traffic control tower at Palm Springs International Airport. The tower replaces a facility that served the airport since 1967.
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