AirVenture

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 […]

Gobosh (short for Go Big Or Stay Home) Aviation unveiled an aircraft it considers worthy of a variation of the LSA. The G-700S is what it terms a luxury sport aircraft and it promises to change the way people think about the new market sector. The aircraft is based on a Polish design built by […]

On Friday, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) announced airplane shipments and billings for the first half of 2007 at EAA AirVenture. During the six-month period, shipments of general aviation airplanes totaled 1,883 units, a 1.7 percent increase over the same period last year. Industry billings rose 11.7 percent to $9.8 billion. While overall growth […]

This week at EAA Airventure, Avidyne introduced the TWX670 Tactical Weather Detection system, which it bills as the “first color, real-time, lightning-based tactical weather avoidance sensor for general aviation aircraft.” The unit uses advanced technology to detect lightning more accurately than previous-generation systems and creates a color-coded display of storm-cell intensity for tactical weather decisions. […]

copyright Larry Grace Click for a Larger Image Two P-51 Mustangs collided on the south end of the north/south runway at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wis., on Friday at 3:17 p.m., killing the sole-occupant pilot of one airplane and injuring the sole occupant of the other craft. The two warbirds were participating in the […]

The flight crew of the Comair flight that crashed in Lexington, Ky., in August 2006 failed to keep track of the airplane’s location on the airport during taxi and then didn’t check that they were on the right runway before takeoff, the NTSB said in its final report on Thursday. “This accident was caused by […]

Two people were killed and four others critically hurt in an explosion at Scaled Composites in Mojave, Calif., on Thursday afternoon, the Associated Press reports. Burt Rutan, president of the company, was reached by the AP and said he had no information about the incident but was on his way to the scene. Local TV […]

The PiperJet very light jet single will cruise the airways at more than 300 knots and glide almost as well as some gliders. At a news conference at EAA AirVenture, Piper Vice President of Sales Bob Kromer said that a one-fifth scale model of the jet recently completed wind-tunnel evaluation and the results not only […]

FAA officials showed a handful of aviation journalists a glimpse of the Next Generation Air Transportation System at EAA AirVenture on Thursday afternoon. Accompanied by FAA Administrator Marion Blakey and Associate Administrator for Safety Nicholas Sabatini, AVweb, along with three other aviation news organizations was given a demonstration aboard the $25 million Bombardier Global 5000 […]