Articles from the November 1, 2013 edition
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Flying Cloud Air Tour marks 10th year
This year's outstanding group of 25 airplanes from all over the Twin Cities descended like a small air force upon the ramp of Modern Avionics and Inflight Pilot Training on Saturday, September 14th....
Images of Reno
The position lights of the Southwest Airlines 737 wink as she climbs steeply o the south past the red light on the nearby mountain. From the 21st floor window the runway lights of the parallels vanish...
MNDOT staff recognized
Congratulations to MnDOT Office of Aeronautics Air Transportation Specialists Vivian "Vee" Dellwo and Barbara Lovness who were nationally recognized for their excellence by the National Business Aviat...
Lipke awarded Wright Brothers Award
A friend to the Minnesota aviation community and FAA Designated Pilot Examiner, Carl H. Lipke, has recently decided to retire from conducting pilot certifications after 21 years of faithful service...
Aeromedical Forum:
James D Lakin, PhD, MD, FACP CFI, CFII, MEI Airline Transport Pilot FAA Senior Aviation Medical Examiner We’ve all seen the aviation movies where the B 707 is over the mid-Pacific and a passenger...
Airport of the Month: Cambridge
How places get named can be interesting. Cambridge, Minnesota boasts a higher percentage of Swedish Americans in its population than any city in the U.S. Yet it was named for the Cambridge in...
Mystery Airplane November 2013
Loening OA-1A Grover C. Loening, a 1911 graduate of Columbia University, worked with Orville Wright and the Army Signal Corps before forming Loening Aeronautical Engineering in 1917. He was the first...
99s make beautiful compass rose in Princeton
The Compass Rose artists: Rick Hoffman, Tracy Davenport (99er), LaJean Firminhac (99er), Patti Sandusky (99er) Bernie Huseth, Sharon Sandberg, Duane Kruse, Jeff Mullin (also helping but not pictured:...
99s complete new compass rose in Albert Lea
The 99s-an international association of women pilots, (there were initially 99 charter members) recently completed a new compass rose for the Albert Lea Municipal Airport. The old compass rose had...
Cirrus teams up with Lake Superior College
Cirrus Aircraft announced a partnership with Lake Superior College to develop and implement an Aircraft Assembly Pre-employment Program. The program is part of a Minnesota Job Skills Program Grant for workforce development and is aimed at...
Aviation jobs expand in Duluth
AAR (NYSE: AIR) announces it has ramped up a third line of maintenance to support Air Canada’s fleet of commercial aircraft as part of a multiyear agreement to perform maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) at its Duluth repair station. The...
Tree of Hope 2013
For the kids! Toys for Children in the hospital over the holidays. Can you help us put a smile on the face of a child this holiday season? Monetary donations are accepted also. Tree of Hope is an all volunteer organization so all money donations are...
