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Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority has granted CubCrafters’ CC18-180 Top Cub type certification, which allows new, certified, ready-to-fly Cubs to be delivered to customers in Australia for the first time. The Top Cub was certified in the States in December 2004; it received type certification from Transport Canada in early August, and has now been approved on floats and wheels in Canada and Australia. (On September 8, the first Canadian-registered Top Cub was delivered to owner Bernard Brossard in Montreal, Quebec.)

December 2008

December 2008 Attitude Flying with Dick Rutan: Volume One of the Aviator Series DVD (Fly Right Films, 2008, ISBN: 89708600200). Three years in the making, the Aviator Series made its premier at AirVenture 2008 with Volume One, in which Rutan explains, dissects and demonstrates the challenges and secrets of precise instrument flying. Stay tuned for […]

Space Flight For Sale

How Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites are rewriting the rules of space travel

FAIRCHILD F-45

1936

EXTRA AIRCRAFT “400/500″

STANDARD DATA (Extra 400): Seats: 6; Gross weight: 4,409 lbs.; Empty weight: 2,974 lbs.; Fuel capacity: 124 (gals.); Engine: 475 shp Continental TSIOL-550-C. PERFORMANCE: Max cruise: 235 kts.; Initial climb rate: 1,400 fpm; Service ceiling: 25,000 ft.; Range: 2,100 nm; Takeoff distance: 1,475 ft.; Landing distance: 1,000 ft. German designer Walter Extra ruled the aerobatic […]