AirVenture

EAA’s 2 millionth Young Eagle, plus three others in the count around the milestone, received their memorable airplane rides at Oshkosh Thursday with prominent EAA pilots. Actor Harrison Ford, a former Young Eagles chairman, flew Jodie Gawthrop, 16, of Illinois in his de Havilland Beaver. She described the flight in an EAA interview as “amazing.” […]

Tecnam’s 11-seat P2012 Traveller twin flew for the first time, in Capua, Italy, last week, the company has announced. Test pilot Lorenzo De Stefano said he checked the basic behavior of the aircraft, engine and flight controls. “The aircraft responded exactly as expected,” he said. “After a couple of circuits around the airfield, I landed […]

Big data is a big thing for airlines, which monitor flights in real time to track maintenance and anomalies. Now the same capability is available for light aircraft, albeit on a reduced scale, in the form of the Canairy Cockpit Monitor sold by Airbly Inc. The company’s Chris VanHorn was showing the gadget at AirVenture […]

The FAA administrator comes to EAA AirVenture just about every summer, and as a rule the main thrust of the current officeholder’s speech is pretty predictable — whoever is in the job will talk about how great GA is and how much they support it, but how hard and slow it is to change any […]

AOPA’s Air Safety Institute has created a new annual safety award named in honor of Joseph T. Nall, and this week named Cirrus Aircraft as the first recipient. “Over the past decade, Cirrus has earned one of the best safety records in the industry, and we are proud to acknowledge their work,” said George Perry, […]

Women’s Day at AirVenture is now in its ninth year, and on Wednesday, a full day of events brought women from all facets of aviation together. The day began with more than 400 women attending a sold-out breakfast hosted by Women in Aviation International, followed by the arrival of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737, flown […]

A digital flight-condition indicator called Airball won the top award this week in EAA’s new Founder’s Innovation Prize contest. Airball’s creator, Ihab Awad of San Jose, California, goes home from AirVenture with $25,000 after pitching his concept to a panel of celebrity judges, EAA announced. The Innovation Prize, which EAA says will be an annual […]

Stemme’s latest motorglider design, the Twin Voyager S12, was first introduced last year at Aero in Germany, but this week the company’s top-of-the-line aircraft makes its U.S. debut at EAA AirVenture. The side-by-side two-seat cockpit offers the pilot lots of options — in power mode, a turbo-charged Rotax 914 F2/S1 engine drives a propeller. When […]

Before you can fly an F-35, you’re going to spend time in the T50a simulator. At AirVenture 2016, Jeff and Baxter Van West got a crack at the sim and shot this AVweb video detailing it. view on YouTube