AirVenture

The Bally Bomber makes its Oshkosh debut 17 years after Jack Bally started the project of a lifetime. view on YouTube

Aspen announced its new ProMax upgrade at AirVenture 2018. The upgraded products feature faster processing, more vivid displays and improved typography. view on YouTube

Two new courses for drone pilots and several for aircraft mechanics are joining the lineup of online aviation training resources at King Schools. John and Martha King announced at AirVenture 2018 that they will be offering recurrent drone training and Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) courses beginning this August. The LAANC course will […]

Construction on the hangar that will become B-29 Doc’s permanent home is on time and under budget, director of Doc’s Friends Josh Wells announced at AirVenture 2018 on Thursday. Doc is one of only two B-29s still flying. The B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center, located in Wichita, Kansas, is expected to be completed this […]

In 2013, Jack Pelton first took the helm at AirVenture, marking the first time the show was not led by a member of the founding Poberezny family. He acted as chairman of the board from 2012 until 2015, when he was officially named CEO. Terrafugia flew its Transition flying car in public for the first […]

I’m pleased to report my record as an aviation seer—never much to brag about to begin with—is now even more tarnished. I was fully expecting this to be the year that electric aircraft would make a bigger splash at AirVenture. But, just ripples. We reported on the Opener BlackFly in this video and news story […]

Garmin comes to AirVenture 2018 at Oshkosh with a variety of product announcements and enhancements, including a new line of pilot smartwatches, more autopilot STC’s, a new weather radar and more. Larry Anglisano spent some time in the big Garmin tent and prepared this report. view on YouTube

Redbird Flight Simulations is developing a Cessna Caravan amphibious flight simulator. In this AVweb video, we took it for a test run at AirVenture 2018. view on YouTube

Noise cancelling headsets are a cockpit standard, but even the least expensive ones aren’t exactly cheap. So why not use a consumer grade ANR? Well, no microphone. And that’s the dilemma a company called NFlight Technology wants to address with a gadget intended to add an aviation-quality microphone to consumer headsets like the Sony MDR. […]