Westwind School of Aeronautics

HERE at United Aviate Academy ✈️, we will be training 100 new pilots by the end of 2021 and 5000 new by 2030! We’re aiming to create more opportunities for thousands of women and people of color to pursue a career as a commercial airline pilot. 👩‍✈️👨‍✈️On top of that, we have partnered with Chase and to ensure cost of training is no longer a barrier of entry!

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The border between Arizona and California. 🏜〰🏝

Did you know: ⭐️Northern Arizona is frequently listed as one the top places in the world for stargazing. With clear skies and low light pollution, you not only get to experience breathtaking flights, but you can also enjoy endless stargazing almost any time of year. In 2001, Flagstaff became the World’s First “International Dark Sky City.” Flagstaff sees on average over 280 sunny days per year meaning dark cloudless nights for stargazing. ⭐️ 🌄🌌

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Fun Fact Friday: ℹ️👨‍💻👩‍💻At around 30,000 ft, approximately 1/3 of taste buds go 'numb' while flying. The reason for this is the lack of humidity, lower air pressure and surprisingly enough...background noise. 🧐

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Holiday travel prep tip: don't forget to pack the essentials! 🌲 🎄🌲🎄

Wishing everyone happy and safe holidays!

Arizona skies never get old. And to think this is our student and staff's view on a regular, how lucky we are! ☁️☀️🌤♥️

📚🔍"Aside from being the world's most-produced aircraft at 43,000+ built and counting, the humble 172 has its place in aviation history as a record breaker...

On December 4th, 1958, Bob Timm and John Cook took off from McCarran Field in Las Vegas, Nevada in a modified Cessna 172 emblazoned with the name of the Hacienda Hotel where Timm, a World War II veteran bomber pilot, worked as a slot machine mechanic...the owner of the hotel had agreed to sponsor the flight and had the idea of making it a cancer research fundraiser as well to give the record attempt a more altruistic justification than being purely a PR stunt. For the next two months, the two pilots flew around Nevada and southern California, refuelling and taking on supplies from a speeding pickup truck along an abandoned stretch of highway and sleeping in turns on a mattress that had been installed in place of the starboard and rear seats. They landed safely back at McCarran on February 7th, 1959, after 64 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes aloft, a total of 1,558.3 hours of air time. After breaking the existing record, Timm and Cook had decided to continue their flight as long as possible, but eventually had to discontinue it because their engine was wearing out and it was becoming difficult to climb away after taking on fuel. There are plenty of write-ups of the record flight online, two of the most detailed are on the AOPA website and at Disciples of Flight. Hacienda was later sold to at least two subsequent owners in Canada and had a long flying career before eventually being preserved and restored to its record-breaking configuration and is now on display suspended above one of the baggage claim carousels at McCarran International Airport." ✈️ 😎