IDAHO AVIATION TRADE SHOW

New Zealand Pilot meets the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF) at Idaho Aviation Trade Show Cessna 180 owners Beverley and Graeme Prankerd from Straford, New Zealand joined Recreational Aviation Foundation friends at the Idaho Trade Show in Idaho Falls, Idaho the weekend of May 20th and 21st.   The Idaho Aviation Trade Show was hosted by Aero Mark…

Read More

BLACK FLY SMASHN’ FLY IN

The black fly is a very aggressive, swarming, biting, blood sucking and universally hated pest that arrives just after ice out, presumably to function as the Creator’s initial spring fish food after a long winter of lake ice.  While black flies can be swatted throughout New England, inviting folks to Maine where they are numerous…

Read More

THE FUTURE OF BACKCOUNTRY AVIATION

On April 30, 2011 the Recreational Aviation Foundation’s (RAF) Vice President, Dan Prill was banished to his shop and hangar for the day while his wife Margie Prill had an open house at their residence in Sand Coulee, MT.  About mid-afternoon Dan got a call from Margie asking if one of her friends 3 year…

Read More