NG Stands For Next Generation...

Things could hardly be looking better for the aerobatic world’s latest monoplane King. Introduced at Oshkosh 2019, the Extra NG is Walter Extra’s pivotal effort to date. The largely carbon fiber airframe offers two seats in tandem, conventional gear, and stuffs 315 HP in the business end, all hauled along at cruise speeds as high as 200 knots. Built to be a performer, Walter did not ignore creature comforts in its design, knowing that aerobatics can be punishing, so he therefore built a comfortable platform that can push as much at 10 Gs -- positive AND negative while still allowing for

Aero Linx: Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) For over 75 years, Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has used aviation to share the love of Jesus Christ with isolated people who have not yet heard the Gospel. Our airplanes are the only way many people living in remote jungles, deserts, and mountains can be changed by the love of Christ. You can help us—and the hundreds of churches, missionaries, and organizations we serve—bring help, hope, and healing to isolated people.

Radar Required A term displayed on charts and approach plates and included in FDC NOTAMs to alert pilots that segments of either an instrument approach procedure or a route are not navigable because of either the absence or unusability of a NAVAID. The pilot can expect to be provided radar navigational guidance while transiting segments labeled with this term.

“When Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, it was to promote commercial air transport. For me, the symbol was the same, but the goal different. I wanted to pave the way for a widespread use of modern clean technologies. The arrival in Seville, being welcomed by the Swiss and Iberian coloured smoke of the Spanish Air Force team, was magical. The first transatlantic solar flight was achieved!” Source: Explorer and innovator, Bertrand Piccard, who made the world’s first Atlantic solar-powered flight, flying from New York, USA to Seville, Spain on the 17th leg of the Solar Impulse 2 project’s historic round-the-world voyage -- on the fifth anniversary of the momentous flight and the inevitable comparison to tt