AirVenture

The FAA’s proposed changes to the so-called “51-Percent Rule” drew just about universal opposition from the kit aircraft industry and homebuilders over the last year or two, but on Friday at AirVenture Oshkosh, the EAA’s Earl Lawrence outlined the latest overhaul of that proposal, and it got a warm welcome from the forum audience. Past […]

Cirrus Design founder Alan Klapmeier said Friday that negotiations with Cirrus Aircraft over his proposed purchase of the VisionJet program have collapsed and, at this point, there is little likelihood of them resuming. Klapmeier told AVweb there were a number of sticking points in the negotiations, including price, that couldn’t be settled. “It appears that […]

Click for video of the Vampire in our series of “Product Minutes” from AirVenture “The idea was to be elegantly simple,” Sadler Aircraft Co. co-owner David Littlejohn told AVweb this week at AirVenture Oshkosh, as he talked about the neat folding-wing design on the company’s new Vampire LSA. “You just remove the bolts, fold once, […]

Able Flight, the nonprofit group that provides flight-training scholarships for people with physical disabilities, honored their three latest scholarship winners in a ceremony at Aeroshell Square at AirVenture Oshkosh on Tuesday morning. “These wings are symbolic of their dedication and will power,” said Able Flight executive director Charles Stites. The honorees, all of whom have […]

It’s our fifth day at EAA AirVenture 2009 and the fourth day of the show. Yes, we’re recovered our ability to tell which day is which, and even though we’re still a little bleary-eyed and maybe just a tad bit unkempt, we’re having more fun than airplane people should be allowed. Join our AirVenture intern […]

On Thursday, we sent Aviation Safety editor-in-chief Jeb Burnside out to the Seaplane Base at EAA AirVenture. In exchange for his freedom, we demanded pictures – and Jeb brought back three galleries’ worth of awesome snapshots. This is the second of these galleries. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW […]

The “North 40” is on the north end of the airport and surrounds the crosswind runway 9-27. It serves as the general parking lot for aircraft just flying in for the day, and also as a campground for pilots that want to camp out next to their airplane. Don’t see the panorama viewer? Click the […]

On Thursday, we sent Aviation Safety editor-in-chief Jeb Burnside out to the Seaplane Base at EAA AirVenture. In exchange for his freedom, we demanded pictures – and Jeb brought back three galleries’ worth of awesome snapshots. This is the first. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW

Over a year ago, Randle Fishman moved electric flight in a small airplane from paper to reality when he equipped a single-engine Moni motorglider with an electric engine and lithium-polymer batteries and took flight. This year he brought his almost-complete ElectraFlyer X to Oshkosh. This two-seat, electric-powered aircraft features side-by-side seating for two and is […]

When it’s time to go flying, Michelle McGuire has a reluctant husband but a willing and happy black Lab. Cockpit noise is even worse for dogs’ ears than for ours, and McGuire felt she had to do something to protect her pooch’s hearing. After searching in vain for a solution and failing to come up […]