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The Guardian
At 74, successful Prince Edward Island entrepreneur John Brewer is eager to see another business take off.
"I wanted something new to do and I wanted it wrapped around flying," says Brewer.
Brewer and his wife Jean have owned and operated the Anne's Windy Poplars Cottage Resort in Cavendish for the past 28 years.
With the exception of one off year, he notes, business has been very good.
"And last year was really exceptional," says Brewer.
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| Call for nominations — COPA Board of Directors
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COPA
Every two years half of the positions on the COPA Board of Directors are up for election. In 2016 a total of nine positions will need to be elected.
Visit: http://www.copanational.org/2016_Board_Nominations.cfm for more information.
By Patrick Gilligan, COPA v-p of operations
The title of my article is not appropriate but I wanted to grab your attention. The title should read Canadian Beacon Registry Verifier or CBRV — the purpose of this tool is to verify the accuracy and validity of the beacon you registered: owner, beacon type, contacts information and aircraft details.
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The Honorable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport took time last week to record six videos, you owe it to yourself to take the time to view his video messages on drones and air safety.
Many people will receive drones over the holidays this year. But before enjoying their gift, new users should learn how to fly them safely and legally.
View the safety videos at: http://www.copanational.org/files/TCMinister_Drones.pdf
Anchorage Press
Upon finishing the first chapter of Chuck Sassara's paean to all things Alaskan I didn't know where he was going to take us or what wonderments would soon enlighten us. But this much was abundantly clear — we all needed to buckle in tight, the ride was about to begin.
Sassara, now 85, is a born story-teller. In Chuck Sassara's Alaska: Propellers, Politics & People, he spills his life story in a somewhat chronological manner, still managing to insert recollections that break the flow while providing often whimsical and touching insights into his life.
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Ottawa Citizen
The Royal Canadian Air Force announced the appointment of Captain Ryan Kean as the pilot for the 2016 CF-18 Demonstration Team. Captain Kean will wow audiences around North America during the 2016 air show season, flying his specially painted CF-18 Hornet commemorating the 75th anniversary of the start of the pan-Canadian effort to train aircrew for the Second World, including pilots, wireless operators, air gunners and navigators through the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
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Winnipeg Sun
The Gimli Glider will be hitting the skies again soon — but now on your luggage.
MotoArt, an American company that makes high-end furniture from old aircraft, is making 10,000 luggage tags out of the plane that made Manitoba history.
The Boeing 767 jet earned its nickname when it was forced to make an emergency landing at a closed air force base in Gimli in 1983.
The tags are made from the fuselage and the wings of the plane, and include the tail number so people can look up its history.
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By Mark Huber
 Hats off to University of Michigan Survival Flight nurses Chad Stoller and Jeff Thomas for winning this year's Association of Air Medical Services 2015 Sim Cup for the second straight year. Adding to the pressure, the 10 teams competing for the Sim Cup did it in front of hundreds of peers, video crews and judges. The value of simulation training is indisputable. Generally the emphasis in HEMS is on pilot training, but paramedic, flight nurse and flight physician training is no less essential.
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AVweb
A reproduction of the Spirit of St. Louis made its first test flights from Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York. The pilot and leader of the building team, Ken Cassens of Stone Ridge, New York, flew the copy of Charles Lindbergh's Ryan NYP for the first time last weekend. He reported the airplane performed well and other than being a little nose-heavy, flew as expected — "a little bit hard to slow it down, because it's so clean, and a little heavy on the ailerons."
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General Aviation News
TNA — Aviation Technologies has introduced the Flyer-Truck C-Series electrical aircraft tow tug into the North American market. The tug is designed to move general aviation, military, and commercial aircraft in the MTOW range of 35,000 pounds (15 tons) up to 220,000 pounds (100 tons).
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AVweb
According to author Paul Bertorelli: A couple of blogs ago, we examined avionics for old guys, but what about avionics for old airplanes? As the fleet ages along with the pilots who own it, a not-that-old airplane these days is one built in the early 1980s. As an inveterate observer of panels, I always peer inside the windows of airplanes to see what the owner has done with avionics upgrades. In a way, it’s a peek into pilot’s view of flying and perhaps a core bore into the thickness of his wallet.
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Air & Space Magazine
It's only a matter of when. We will exhaust Earth's storehouse of petroleum ... someday. Total reserves are estimated at between one and two trillion barrels, and at current rates, that could last, according to some sources through 2100 or so. Or the planet could heat up to a point where carbon-based fuels are no longer viable and we'd be forced to use alternative sources of energy. We humans have never been very good at planning for the distant future, so designing airplanes for a time when the only source of energy for propulsion is electricity seems like a science fair project.
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Air & Space Magazine
"Problemo," said Lawrence "Bud" Sittig, gesturing at the amber light that had blinked on in the Cessna 206. It was April 2014, and he was flying four scientists from Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas, including one taking photos out an open door, over the jungles of the Peten region. They spoke no English, and Sittig speaks only a little Spanish.
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