Alabama news links: Auburn flight school may get FAA OK with new instructor; Clio man sets sheets on fire; city may ...
Auburn University has hired a new flight instructor and may try to get back the FAA license it needs to operate an aviation training program, an Alabama city may start charging for fire response, a group home resident sets his bed on fire and much more news from across the state.

Auburn University's new flight chief ready to take off
Auburn University’s professional flight management program will soon have a new chief flight instructor.Wayne Ceynowa, current manager of flight standards at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, will be filling the post formerly held by Dr. Rae Williams, who resigned as chief flight instructor after a May 28 incident in which the school’s Cessna 172 RG landed with its landing gear up at Auburn ...

Caddo School Board District 3 candidates want less flight from area
Caddo School Board District 3 candidates Willie Burton and Brenda Harrison-Alexander agree that low enrollment in their area's schools are a symptom of a bigger housing issue. But solving the problem is the major difference between the candidates.

Eastern Michigan University flight training program lands new FAA certification that lowers tuition costs
Alexander Bloye, chief flight instructor for Eastern Michigan University's Aviation Flight Technology Program, expects the change in certification level will boost enrollment 25 percent a year from now.Photo by Janet Miller | For AnnArbor.com Students in Eastern Michigan’s Aviation Flight......

NASA Selects Winning Team In Balloonsat Competition
NASA has selected the winner of the national Balloonsat High Altitude Flight Competition, a contest that introduces high school students to engineering principles and encourages engineering practices.The high school team from North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, N.C., took home the top prize.The winning team's experiment, "Variations in Polyvinyl Alcohol Radiation ...

Bird takes flight in multiple sports: The junior is a member of four varsity teams at Purnell Swett
PEMBROKE — Purnell Swett golf coach Jamie Locklear couldn't belive what he was seeing. At a recent fundraising golf tournament for the school's softball team, Locklear believes he stumbled upon som...

The Flight To Safety Might Not Be So Safe
Wherever you have an overvaluation, you're no more safe than you are in a market that you perceive b

Preston Middle School's STEM helps students experience science
Until recently, seventh-grader Caitlin Norris wanted to be a massage therapist when she grew up, but now, after taking computer-simulated flying lessons in Preston Middle School's enrichment classes, she thinks she might become a pilot.

Unpredictability is what high school football is all about
One of things I like best about high school football is the sheer unpredictability of the weather that goes along with it.

Learning abroad: Five Collier high school students get chance of a lifetime
The highlight of Avery Segal’s summer was living for three days in a Buddhist temple in South Korea . “It was amazing. We had to get up at 4 a.m. We had to do 108 bows before lunch,” said the 17-year-old Barron Collier High School senior. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I look at my photos and I can’t believe I am in them.”