Aviation Articles

Mosaique magazine News from Penn College took to the skies and traveled the world in recent weeks.

Aviation instructor Michael R. Robison deploys the motor. The Lange is equipped with electronic flight instrumentation. Robison prepares for flight. Taxiing to the end of the runway ... ... and climbing after takeoff To inspire electricity students, aviation instructor Michael R. Robison brought an electrically powered aircraft to Penn College's Lumley Aviation Center on Friday.

Inspired by students and driven by need, an associate professor of aviation at Pennsylvania College of Technology has written a textbook for his avionics classes. Thomas D. Inman’s “Avionics: Beyond the AET” – available in bookstores and already incorporated into the School of Transportation Technology curriculum – has been published by AVOTEK Information Resources.

Andrew L. Stamey, of Danville, lends a hand with the hose. The Lumley Aviation Center' hangar floor provides ample workspace for Misty Blues' air-show preparations. Assisting Team RV are students Jonel A. Murray, of Brooklyn, N.Y. (left), and Rameshwar Singh, of Queens Village, N.Y.

FedEx Express' William Smith gives faculty an unprecedented view. Like more orthodox Penn College classes, a small teacher-to-student ratio allows for personalized interaction.

A Boeing 727-200F aircraft from FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) made its final descent Wednesday onto the runway at the Williamsport Regional Airport. Celebration of this landing and tremendously generous donation to Pennsylvania College of Technology took place at the college's Lumley Aviation Center. A tour of the aircraft followed its arrival.

More than 80 Airframe and Powerplant mechanics holding inspection authorization attended a training seminar Saturday coordinated by Penn College and the Federal Aviation Administration Flight Standards District Office in Harrisburg. In addition to the FAA representatives at the Lumley Aviation Center in Montoursville, presenters included Randy Jenson, of Lycoming Engines; Chad R.

Penn College aviation students Alper B. Tan, Marc T. Kaylor, Jacob R. Tuck, Richard M. "Matt" Hause and Daniel A. Starr along with co-department head Thomas D. Inman provided ground support for air-show aircraft at last weekend's Lycoming County Rotary Clubs Festival 2011. The college was a "co-pilot sponsor" for the event, held at the Lycoming County Fairgrounds in Hughesville.

Three Sikorsky helicopters have arrived at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Lumley Aviation Center, where the aircraft will provide students with years of hands-on training opportunities. The first to be delivered shrouded like a mummy in protective shrinkwrap for its trip from West Palm Beach, Fla. was an S-76A.

A junior in Pennsylvania College of Technology's four-year aviation maintenance technology major has been awarded a $2,000 scholarship from the Aircraft Electronics Association. Terrence A. Heim, of Malvern, on track to graduate in May 2012 from the college's School of Transportation Technology, will receive the Garmin Scholarship during the 2011-12 academic year.