Introducing President Keith Bagley

By Tom Woodward Hartzell Engine Technologies is no longer just a propeller company. With the retirement of Mike Disbrow at the end of 2017 and the installation of Keith Bagley as President, Hartzell is diversifying their business plan to incorporate many aviation related products. In the last couple of years Hartzell has made some strategic purchases of companies to round out their core product. They include Sky-Tec starters, Plane Power Alternators, Janitrol Aero Heaters, Aeroforce Turbochargers, and Fuelcraft fuel pumps. To maintain customer loyalty for these products they have retained their name brands for easy recognition.

Young Women Can Learn from Various Mentors at AirVenture

By Maria Morrison According to the FAA’s 2017 study, women make up about 7% of pilots in American general aviation. EAA’s “Women Soar You Soar” camp is working to change that. The Women Soar camp, run by chairman Debby Rhin-Harvey, is a day camp for high school girls ages 14-18. It began years ago as a one-day camp and has since grown to four, with 70 girls participating this year. These girls have the opportunity to work with female mentors from all corners of the aviation community, attend seminars and workshops to discover possible career options and, of course, experience all the wonderful things at AirVenture. Their Oshkosh experience includes tou

The Fight For The Future Of KSMO Continues...

NBAA has continued the fight to preserve Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO) across two separate but related fronts, including the filing of an “en banc” petition asking for rehearing by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia of the recent determination that a January 2017 settlement agreement between the City of Santa Monica and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) did not constitute a final action by the agency. Last month, an appeals court panel denied on procedural grounds a petition filed by NBAA and other airport stakeholders that sought to overturn the controversial agreement allowing Santa Monica city officials to shorten the sole runway and thus to r

Sparking the Innovation of Change

Electroair has updated their product line with a new replacement option for dual magneto equipped Lycoming engines. The Michigan based company has developed a solid-state direct bolt-in replacement for the traditional mechanical dual magneto used on many large 4-cylinder Lycoming engines, including those used in helicopter applications. Consisting of an internal generator, and solid-state triggering system, the primary generator and signal side powers 4 coil-on plug ignition coils. The unit also is equipped with a hall-effect pickup to signal an external electronic ignition unit providing dual ignition capabilities from a single unit. About the size and weight of a traditional single ignition magneto, the unit sav

Featuring Thrust Flight Academy and Partnerships

By Maxine Scheer During a Wednesday, July 25, 2018 press conference at AirVenture 2018, Stuart Stevenson, Vice President of Addison, Texas based Thrust Flight announced that US Sport Aircraft was rebranding into Thrust Flight. With our heritage in the LSA market, the company has now widened into a full range general aviation mainstay. The second announcement was Thrust Flight Academy's Zero Time to Airline Program, noted as a fast-track path to an airline career.

STCs Will Make Landings Safer and Smoother

By Maria Morrison The BERINGER AERO Company debuted a prototype for their new landing gear system, as well as their newest Supplemental Type Certificates (STC), at AirVenture this year. Claire Beringer, daughter of the founder Gilbert Beringer, presented a “very hasty mock-up” of the new spring gear. The oleo shock can easily be bolted onto the existing frame and the dampening pressure can be adjusted, which reduces up to three times the stress on the airplane. Claire expects that the spring gear will be experimental for several years before it is certified, and will generally be marketed to bush pilots, flight schools, experimental pilots, and those operating in rough terrain.