Right Rudder Aviation Will Sell/Support Panthera Here In The States

ANN was honored to undertake the first flight test of an American Registered Pipistrel Panthera Friday. We'll have much more to say in the coming days, but the very new airplane (less than 10 hours on it here in the USA) airplane is darned impressive... not just for its 196kt cruise speed (at 75%). but for a stability and control profile that was mostly downright docile -- which we did NOT expect. Keep in mind that this is accomplished with a three-blade MT CS prop, a normally aspirated IO-540 Lyc and an empty weight about 500 pounds below gross. Despite a 96F degree ambient OAT, the bird used just a tad over 1100 feet to break ground, climbed at close to 1000FPM at cruise-climb s

From 2016: Learn To Fly Your New Drone Without Breaking Anything...

Okay, you’ve got your eye on a really nice multirotor drone that can perform numerous functions that meet your needs, but you’re concerned about spending a fair amount of money and then taking a chance that it will get damaged when you’re learning to fly it. ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, attended the AMA Expo 2016 and found that there may be a solution to this dilemma. Jim visited with Josh Schiff, a Marketing Specialist for a compa