AirVenture

If you’ve never written the President, now’s a good time to start. That’s the message from House aviation subcommittee members as the FAA reauthorization bill moves through Capitol Hill. The subcommittee attended a somewhat sparsely attended public session at EAA AirVenture on Saturday, and Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., said that while user fees are big […]

In an effort to get kids back into aviation and thus help slow or even stop the declining pilot population, Alpha Tango Charlie at EAA AirVenture said it is offering a discount on its aviation trading cards for aviation education and learn-to-fly organizations. ‘Several EAA chapters offer them to Young Eagle kids to help reinforce […]

Eighty years ago, Claude Dornier introduced a small “flying boat,” and on Friday afternoon his grandson, Iren Dornier, revealed the Dornier Aircraft S-Ray amphibian light sport aircraft. The all-composite two-seater, which achieved first flight on July 14 in Germany, has a high wing with a forward-facing engine mounted on top. At present, the prototype is […]

copyright Larry Grace Click for a Larger Image In a press briefing Saturday afternoon, NTSB air safety inspector Jim Silliman said the Safety Board is still very much in the investigation stage of Friday afternoon’s accident involving two P-51 Mustangs participating in the showcase flights at EAA AirVenture. EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski said Gerald Beck, […]

The Two Weeks to Taxi program that was launched by Glasair a few years ago to help builders make progress on their kits has been spun off into a separate company. Mikael Via, who will be president of both companies, at EAA AirVenture said the two-week program will now be available for the Vans RV-10 […]

The guys from Boise, Idaho, who run AeroLEDs like to call themselves geeky engineers, but at EAA AirVenture this week they were showing off some marketing savvy, dunking their LED units in a fishbowl filled with water, dropping them repeatedly and shining them all night into the skies above Wittmann Field. Company cofounder Mike D’Amico […]

With customer deliveries of the A500 centerline twin under way, Adam Aircraft is working to enhance the features of the product. Upgrades include the addition of a Traffic Advisory System, certified in May, and XM weather and audio and CMAX Jeppesen charts are now available. Testing is completed for an enhanced ground-proximity warning system, engine […]

Clearwater, Fla.-based Pol-Air has been busy keeping EAA AirVenture attendees nice and cool with its “personal air chiller” for airplanes, which it introduced and is demonstrating at the airshow. “It’s not an air conditioner,” stressed Pol-Air President Jamie Blackstone, nor is it a whole aircraft cabin cooler. Instead, cooled air is piped through up to […]

Long before Sean O’Donnell was paralyzed in an accident, his dreams soared far above the wheelchair that is now a part of his life. Last Monday, the first stage of that dream came true when he became the proud holder of a sport pilot certificate. “I’ve been doing the paralyzed thing for 12 years, and […]

Aviation memorabilia collectors might want to check out the Aurora Auctions Web site for a list of the items that will into an online auction on Saturday. The auction will feature mostly items from the golden age of aviation, from 1920 to 1940 and includes the sculpture used to cast the 1930 Charles E. Thompson […]