AirVenture

EAA does a lot all year round to encourage women and girls to participate in the world of aviation, but at AirVenture those efforts ramp up. Wednesday was WomenVenture day at the show, and this year’s event drew nearly 1,000 women to gather for a group photo on Boeing Plaza. Elissa Lines, EAA’s former VP […]

Flight Design, which has been in receivership in Germany since February 2016, is now under new ownership, the company announced on Wednesday. Lift Air, from Eisenach, Germany, has taken over all assets and operation of the company. “I am glad that we are able to maintain the know-how of one of the world’s market leaders […]

With a full line of aerodiesel engines in its product portfolio, Continental Motors says it’s seeing more uptake of Jet A-burning engines in the training market, including some nibbles in the North American market. At an AirVenture press conference on Tuesday, Continental’s Rhett Ross said that the company’s new CD-300 six-cylinder diesel is now fully […]

People keep asking me what the big thing is at this year’s AirVenture and I keep not having an answer. From a news coverage point of view, it has been a very busy year for us, but I feel like we’re just doing a lot of wheel spinning without gaining much traction. I think part […]

You don’t have to hang around AirVenture at Oshkosh long to spot one of EAA’s modified VW Beetles. And boy has the fleet grown. What started with a few love-bugs has since grown to over 40 of them, and they’ve become critical to EAA’s show transportation network. AVweb’s intern Ashley Anglisano looked at the history […]

The PS Engineering PMA8000G is an advanced audio control panel that’s designed as a slide-in replacement for Garmin’s older GMA340 audio panel. Larry Anglisano got a demo of the system in the PS Engineering booth at AirVenture and prepared this video report. view on YouTube

At AirVenture 2017, one of the major breakthroughs wasn’t just fancy glass panels in taildraggers, but Garmin’s heretofore experimental-only EFIS—the G3X—installed in CubCrafter’s new XCub. In this video, Randy Lervold tells why the company decided to do it. view on YouTube

At AirVenture 2017, AVweb spoke with Mark Linsley about new functionality recently enabled on the Lynx transponder and some special show pricing. Duration: 4:41 File Size: 4.6 MB download here

Simulator maker Redbird brought a production version of its Guided Independent Flight Training (GIFT) to Oshkosh. The system has been many years and several versions in the making, but is now for sale with 33 modules teaching basic flight, private-pilot maneuvers and emergencies. Each module describes and demonstrates the topic, guides the student through flight […]

Moving the Cafe Foundation’s annual symposium to Oshkosh was a success, executive director Yolanka Wulff told AVweb this week, and the event will return to the same venue next year. The symposium was previously held in California, but Cafe tried the move, reasoning that since most of their attendees also go to AirVenture, an Oshkosh […]