AirVenture

FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, who was just confirmed to the post in May, got a warm welcome Thursday morning on his first visit to AirVenture Oshkosh, where he gave a short talk and took questions from the audience in the Honda Forum Pavilion on Thursday morning. But before getting started, Babbitt honored EAA founder Paul […]

Looking west from the Canon Photo Platform next to the IAC building you can see the display aircraft on Aeroshell Square, the control tower, and part of the air show crowd. Don’t see the panorama viewer? Click the thumbnails below to launch them on separate pages.

Looking south from the Canon Photo Platform next to the IAC building you can see the airshow performers staging area and part of the airshow crowd. Don’t see the panorama viewer? Click the thumbnails below to launch them on separate pages.

We were wondered where AVweb intern Adam Cutler disappeared to yesterday. Apparently he got some time aboard the A380 and worked his way down to the seaplane base. Meanwhile, contributing photographer Mariano Rosales has been snapping photos like crazy and creating some amazing panoramic photos we’ll be sharing with you in upcoming galleries. (Scroll to […]

Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and first officer Jeff Skiles drew a huge crowd to the Honda Forum Pavilion at AirVenture Oshkosh on Thursday afternoon — the audience filled every seat and spilled out dozens deep from both sides and the back, and even passing rain showers didn’t drive them away — and the crew was […]

This is GE Aviation’s second appearance at AirVenture Oshkosh and it’s only been one year since the company acquired Walter Aircraft Engines, but they’ve already hung their new soon-to-be-certified enhanced version of the robust Walter M601 on a soon to be certified production aircraft. That aircraft is Thrush Aircraft’s new 510-gallon, 10,500-pound gross weight, Thrush […]

Evergreen International’s newly certified B747 firefighting Supertanker can reach a fire at speeds near 600 mph, slow down, and then drop more than 20,000 gallons of payload on it – and the company hopes to put it to work in Alaska to do just that this week. This wildfire attack is a first for Evergreen, […]

Click for larger images Arriving with a fully restored and flying P-51C at AeroShell Square, Oshkosh, after the May 2005 fatal crash that killed program leader Don Hinz and destroyed the aircraft, may be nothing less than fully consistent with the Red Tail Project‘s mission of rising above and affecting positive change. The monumental restoration […]

Flight Design, GmbH, is developing from a standard Rotax 914 engine, an electric augmented powerplant that will produce an extra 40 hp for short (less than three minute) bursts of power. The company has “specifically developed for this task” an electric motor that is coupled to the prop hub through a belt drive. The goal […]

copyright Aaron Lurth Tom Poberezny and Craig Fuller give a thumbs up acknowledging the Memorandum of Understanding signed by both organizational leaders. (click for larger version) The leaders of EAA and AOPA — Tom Poberezny and Craig Fuller — met on Aeroshell Square at Oshkosh on Wednesday morning, under the nose of the huge A380, […]