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Aviation Training
When considering the products to purchase for your flight training or your aviation maintenance technician training, there are really only two good choices. The first are Jeppesen products, and the second Gleim Aviation products. And for me the choices are very simple.
The Jeppesen manuals are hardcover, fully illustrated in color and will last forever with [...]
Original Randolph Engineering Aviator Sunglasses
Military pilots in many countries have known for a long time about the quality of Randolph Aviator Sunglasses, and they love them! Some of the reasons they are so popular can be seen below where you can see for yourself the quality of these American manufactured sunglasses. They are non-polarized, which is [...]
Display Model Airplanes
ModelPlanes.com
In 2002 Hayneedle, Inc. was founded by Doug Nielsen, Mark Hasebrock and Julie Mahloch when they acquired Haommocks.com and began selling hammocks online. Seeing the potential of developing websites devoted to specific products, they began launching more sites in specific niches. They then became NetShops and continued to grow, finally in August of 2009 they [...]
Paper Model Airplanes
If you do a search for “paper airplanes” on Google you will find there are about 839,000 pages on which the words “paper airplanes” appears. That’s a lot of pages about paper airplanes!
There is a good reason for this – paper airplanes have fascinated all of us since we were little kids. Do you remember [...]
The Amazon.com “Kindle” Reader
The Kindle Wireless Reading Device is a great choice for pilots to carry with them as they travel around the country. 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle without any annual contract, no monthly fees and no looking for Wi-Fi hotspots. It even works in over 100 countries worldwide!
The Kindle weighs just [...]
PilotUSA ANR & PNR Headsets
When you are considering the purchase of headsets for use in your aircraft, the first thought that comes to mind is comfort; however, this is not the most important consideration when buying a headset. Modern piston-powered aircraft and helicopters produce high sound levels, often in the range of 90-95db, and present [...]
Amazon Kindle Book Reader
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The Amazon.com “Kindle” Reader
The Kindle Wireless Reading Device is a great choice for pilots to carry with them as they travel around the country. 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle without any annual contract, no monthly fees and no looking for Wi-Fi hotspots. It even works in over 100 countries worldwide!
The Kindle weighs just [...] - More from Amazon Kindle Book Reader
Model Airplanes
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Display Model Airplanes
ModelPlanes.com
In 2002 Hayneedle, Inc. was founded by Doug Nielsen, Mark Hasebrock and Julie Mahloch when they acquired Haommocks.com and began selling hammocks online. Seeing the potential of developing websites devoted to specific products, they began launching more sites in specific niches. They then became NetShops and continued to grow, finally in August of 2009 they [...]
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Paper Model Airplanes
If you do a search for “paper airplanes” on Google you will find there are about 839,000 pages on which the words “paper airplanes” appears. That’s a lot of pages about paper airplanes!
There is a good reason for this – paper airplanes have fascinated all of us since we were little kids. Do you remember [...] - More from Model Airplanes
Other Recent Articles
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Anything Is Possible
As everyone knows by now, the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl, a seemingly unachievable goal. As I watched the first quarter it seemed they didn’t have what it would take, and Payton Manning was right on stride like a well polished machine.
But the Saints dug in, played hard, took risks and in [...]
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NTSB Report on Colgan Crash in Buffalo
The National Transportation Safety Board issued it’s report today on the February 2009 of the Colgan Air Q400 accident in Buffalo, NY. In that crash 50 persons, including the crew, lost their lives.
Once again the NTSB has found pilot error as the primary cause of the accident, asserting the captain responded incorrectly to the [...]
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An Office To Dream About
Years ago I passed up the chance to fly for an airline, but many of my friends decided to go for it. Over the years they endured all of the layoffs, the consolidations and the bankruptcies. Some fared well, others returned to other careers as school teachers and civil engineers.
I took a different path, [...]
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February 2010 Newsletter
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan
Douglas Corrigan finally fulfilled a lifetime dream when he landed at Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel, Dublin, Ireland on July 18, 1938. He had been airborne for 28 hours and 13 minutes. For more than two years, he had unsuccessfully petitioned the Bureau of Air Commerce for permission to fly non-stop from New [...]
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How Safe Are The Airlines?
In an article in USA TODAY by Gary Stoller he questions the safety of airline maintenance as he looks through the publish report by the FAA on fines levied against the airlines by the FAA over the past 6 years.
According to this report the FAA levied a total of $ 28,160,450 in fines for [...]
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Move Your Jet To Van Nuys, Movie Stars Told
Stars Asked To Move Jets To Van Nuys
A Congressional candidate in Los Angeles is asking celebrities to plant their carbon footprint somewhere besides Santa Monica Airport. Democrat Marcy Winograd is suggesting Van Nuys. The candidate for the 36th District has sent letters to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, actors Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise and John Travolta and [...] - Archives:
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