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July 27, 2011

Swift Enterprises Ready To Go To Market ... If FAA Was Ready

FAA Funding Issue Cancels FAA ARC Update At AirVenture

By John Ylinen Swift Enterprises provided a forum update Tuesday on their Swift Fuel project. Jon Ziulkowski and Brian Stirm gave the forum an update on the problems with the current 100LL fuel and how their SwiftFuel or 100SF. Ziulkowski said that “their fuel is the only unleaded fuel ever that exceeds the 100 MOM”. On 1 May 2011; Swift Enterprise received ATSM approval for D7719 specification.

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Able Flight Graduates Are More Than CapABLE

Organization Teaches People With Disabilities That They, Too, Can Fly

Able Flight, a 501-C3 nonprofit organization who's stated mission is to offer people with disabilities a unique way to challenge themselves through flight training, and by doing so, to gain greater self-confidence and self-reliance, has awarded 34 scholarships since their inception. Among those scholorship winners are include twelve people who use wheelchairs, 5 women, and six wounded or disabled veterans. One of the wheelchair bound graduates has started his own flight school.

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AvConnect, Aspen Partner To Provide Wi-Fi Connection To The Cockpit

Connected Panel Enabled Application For iPad

AvConnect on Tuesday announced its partnership with Aspen Avionics on the launch of Connected Panel technology, integrating AvConnect’s wireless iPad application and Aspen’s certified aircraft panel avionics to capture real-time aircraft performance and flight data.

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Sennheiser Partners With iFlightPlanner.com To Develop Flight Planning App

iFlightPlanner for iPad to be Demonstrated at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2011

Aviation headset manufacturer Sennheiser announced that it has partnered with iFlightPlanner.com to develop what they say is a groundbreaking flight planning application specifically designed for use on the Apple iPad and iPad 2. Pilots and aviation enthusiasts visiting Sennheiser’s booth will be among the first to see the iFlightPlanner for iPad in action before its release later this fall. At its booth, Sennheiser will be hosting the iFlightPlanner.com crew, in addition to its newly unveiled S1 Digital headset.

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GA Diesel Engines On Display At AirVenture

Centurion Brings 2.0 Engine From Germany To Wisconsin

German engine company Centurion is again displaying its environmentally friendly Centurion-series diesel aircraft engines for GA aircraft at AirVenture this week. The company reports that the engines have accumulated an additional 500,000 hours of cumulative operating time to 2.7 million hours.

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Cessna Features Airplanes, TV Stars At Oshkosh Exhibit

Era Airlines Personnel From 'Flying Wild Alaska' Featured At Cessna Exhibit

Cessna is featuring a full line of its popular propeller aircraft as well as several Citation business jets during its week-long exhibit at the annual Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture 2011 in Oshkosh, WI. Cessna also will host personalities from the Discovery Channel’s hit television show Flying Wild Alaska.

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AirVenture 2011 Features Women In The Aviation Industry

Events Scheduled Throughout The Week

During the week of EAA’s AirVenture, thousands of women who have an interest in aviation are expected to attend. Additionally, a number of organizations that support the growth and success of women in the aviation industry have a noticeable presence and include Women in Aviation International (WAI) and Women Soar You Soar, others include the Ninety-Nines, and the Association of Women in Aviation Maintenance (AWAM).

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BRS To Bring Electrical Firing Chute To Flight Design C4

Teams With Kestrel on Chute For Their Turboprop

BRS Aerospace and Flight Design announced Tuesday at AirVenture that the next generation of the BRS full airframe parachute will be on every Flight Design C4 as standard equipment. This chute will be the next evolution with an electrical firing mechanism. This will provide them with improved capabilities allow pilot and passengers the ability to activate the chute in conditions that the current spring firing pin cannot.

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Aero-TV: Getting Competitive -- Avidyne Expands Its New Line Up

The Retrofit Avionics Market Has Never Looked This Capable... and Promising

You have to hand it to Avidyne... at just about the time that you'd think they'd be happy building an increasing market share for Glass Cockpit systems with their innovative and easy-to-use R-9 system, they go and fill in ALL the blanks with a full suite of replacement avionics... Transponders, Audio panels, Auto-Pilots, GPS/Nav/Coms... you name it. 

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