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Lock Haven, Pennsylvania/Injuries: 1 Serious The pilot said the airplane was in cruise flight at 7,500 feet when the engine began to “surge” and then, shortly thereafter, stopped producing power. He selected a forced landing area in a clearing, but the airplane entered trees before reaching the clearing and came to rest upright in flat, […]

Across     1  Piper light twin     5  Competent     9  Unlike localizer, it has vertical guidance   10  Concorde once followed in the penumbra of one for hours   11  “Flying Milkstool” prefix   13  Cheetahs and Otters have one on their tail   14  Geometrical term familiar to readers of this magazine   […]

Watertown, South Dakota/Injuries: 1 The student pilot reported that there were no anomalies with the engine operation during a before-takeoff engine check or when he applied power for takeoff. He stated that shortly after liftoff, about 50 to 100 feet above the runway, the engine suddenly lost power. He immediately performed a landing on the […]

According to the manufacturer, this type of failure was uncommon in this engine series.

ACROSS 1 Dentist who produced one of the first composite aircraft 6 Lear, for one 8 Compete with 9 It’s closely related to the ADI 10 Parallel and opposing force to an aircraft’s motion through the air 12 Begins “of climb” and “end” 13 Chooses 16 What zoom climbs tend to be 20 Jet pilot […]

ACROSS 1 Required annually or every 100 hours 5 Where Continental Aerospace Technologies is and what it uses, abbr. 7 A bear of a plane 10 Continuous broadcast of pre-recorded weather information, abbr. 12 Companion of “avoid” 14 Approximate ETA suffix 16 Garmin Pilot competitor owned by Boeing 20 “Born,” in some announcements 21 Used […]

While flying a low-level waterfowl aerial observation route, the pilot flew into power lines that were strung across a river.

Day 2 AirVenture began with “rain that went sideways,” according to one vendor. After a late night cranking out a report, I was grateful for an excuse to get another hour’s sleep. The overnight rain gave way to another beautiful, if hot, day in Oshkosh. Tuesday, I hiked up to the north side, where the […]

The engine logbooks revealed that the engine was overhauled in 1994 and had accumulated 1,972.3 hours since the last overhaul.

Well, FINALLY, AirVenture Oshkosh is barely a week away. It seems like forever, doesn’t it? It has been two years but feels like a decade. I hope you can attend, but if not, I plan to be on-site all week gathering the latest about Light-Sport Aircraft, Sport Pilot kits, and ultralights. In this edition of […]