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Avionics Without Borders + SUN ‘n FUN Field Interviews

🎧 Episode Summary Get ready for takeoff! This episode takes you from a 10-year-old’s dream at a Florida air show to a global aviation career that spans continents. Host Shawn Staerker sits down with Kirk Fryer, President of Sarasota Avionics, who transforms aircraft around the world—from Bangladesh flight academies to Greek military helicopters. Plus, we […]

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Kirk Fryar of Sarasota Avionics and Maintainence poses with one of his company aircraft inside of the hangar.

SUN ‘n FUN and Global Aviation w/Kirk Fryar of Sarasota Avionics

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A sleek sport pilot 2.0 or MOSAIC ready aircraft from TL Sport Aircraft flying over a US Southern countryside. Vintage comic book style.

Sport Pilot 2.0 & How to Get Into Aviation Industry Sales

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Avionics Techs working on an aircraft panel. Determined looks on their faces. Vintage comic book style.

The Automation Revolution: Why Avionics Techs Run the Future

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2 members of the IT FLIES design, build, fly competition talk about what makes this one unique.

Design. Simulate. Fly. How IT FLIES Is Rewriting Aerospace Education

🎧 Episode Summary What if aerospace students could take their classroom equations and turn them into real, flyable aircraft designs—without ever cutting balsa wood or stepping into a wind tunnel? In this episode of The Future in Flight Podcast, host Shawn Staerker sits down with Amir Kosh and Gordon McClymont to explore ST Engineering Antycip’s

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A student in a high fidelity flight simulator testing out his team's design as part of the IT FLIES competition. Vintage comic book style.

IT FLIES Aircraft Design Competition, Backseat Pilot and V-Speeds

🎧 Episode Summary What if aerospace engineering students didn’t just design aircraft on paper—but actually watched real test pilots fly their creations? In this episode of The Future in Flight Podcast, host Shawn Staerker takes you inside IT FLIES, an innovative international design-build-fly competition where students bring their aircraft concepts to life in high-fidelity simulators

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