AirVenture

Pleasant weather and some aircraft firsts helped last week’s EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh attract about 550,000 visitors, an attendance increase of about 2 percent, EAA said. “AirVenture 2015 exceeded our expectations on many levels,” Chairman Jack Pelton said in a statement Wednesday. “With near-perfect weather for the entire event, we filled Wittman Regional Airport […]

NASA beta-tested a GA version of its Automatic Ground-Collision Avoidance System at AirVenture, bringing in a couple dozen volunteer pilots over the week to fly a simulator connected to a cellphone test app. The software alerts pilots, visually and aurally, when they approach terrain, then offers guidance on how to maneuver to avoid it. NASA‘s […]

Honda Aircraft Company now is expanding its sales network to South America, the company announced this week at EAA AirVenture. Sales will begin in Brazil, and the jet will make its South American debut there next month at the Latin America Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition. “General aviation in Brazil has experienced impressive growth, and […]

“We had nearly perfect weather,” EAA Chairman Jack Pelton said in his closing news conference at AirVenture on Sunday, “and it really felt like we’re getting back to our culture — that’s what we’ve been striving for, these last three years.” On Tuesday, the show logged “the most aircraft arrivals ever,” with more than 3,000 […]

The new Perlan 2 glider joined the Airbus A350 XWB at EAA AirVenture this week. The pressurized, two-seat glider has been designed to fly up to 90,000 feet, at the edge of space, where it will explore the science of stratospheric mountain waves that affect the global climate. This will require the engineering of a […]

Ohio State University has received a gift of $10 million to support aviation education and research on campus, the school announced this week at EAA AirVenture. The gift from the Austin E. Knowlton Foundation will support construction of a new facility at Don Scott Field, with state-of-the-art flight simulators, research labs and classrooms. More than […]

Busy and Some Things With Legs This year marks my 27th or 28th Oshkosh tour—I can’t exactly remember which for sure. I would characterize the week as busy and moderately consequential. By consequential, I mean I saw things that made me believe they’ll have legs in the market and have some impact on sales and […]

The Commemorative Air Force continued its aggressive fundraising campaign to restore That’s All, Brother, the C-47 that led the D-Day invasion. The historic aircraft, on display this week at AirVenture, drew continuous crowds of visitors who wanted the chance to take a peek inside and learn more about its history. view on YouTube

At AirVenture, the Military Aviation Museum of Virginia Beach brought a real treat: a superbly restored de Havilland Mosquito. In this exclusive AVweb AirVenture video, Paul Bertorelli took a cockpit tour with pilot Mike Spalding and interviewed Warren Denholm on the restoration. view on YouTube

Many vintage and even newer BendixKing autopilots require the pricey vacuum-driven mechanical KI-256 attitude gyro, which can be real money to overhaul or replace. BendixKing has a modern alternative with the KI-300 solid-state, MEMS-based digital attitude display. In this video, Aviation Consumereditor Larry Anglisano takes a look at the instrument with BendixKing’s Roger Dykeman while […]