AirVenture

AVweb has been at AirVenture all week and came up with these tongue-in-cheek reasons why you’d know you’re in Oshkosh and not, say, Aero in Germany or Sun ‘n Fun. view on YouTube

At AirVenture Saturday morning, EAA’s Jack Pelton took a moment to address the Air Line Pilots Association’s unexpected letter to Congress opposing third-class medical reform efforts, which EAA has been at the forefront of this last year. Duration: 2:39 File Size: 3.1 MB download here

It’s not EAA AirVenture without a flying car or two, and this year’s new design — which the company says is not strictly a flying car, but a roadable aircraft — is on display just off the main drag, near the Innovation Center. Commuter Craft, based in Georgia, is displaying a prototype of a three-surface […]

The Lisa Akoya amphibian is continuing flight test at home in France, CEO Benoit Senallart told AVweb at EAA AirVenture on Friday, with the aim of achieving LSA certification in early 2017. The tests are meeting expectations, Senallart said. “We’re doing a lot of water-taxi testing, on smooth and rough water,” he said. “The seafoil […]

Rutan Lays Hands on the 915 iS I was in the Rotax booth on Tuesday shooting avideo on the new 915 iS when Burt Rutan, towing a small entourage, popped in. He hadn’t heard about the new engine, but when Marc Becker rattled off the specs, Rutan pronounced it the perfect engine for his new […]

At AirVenture 2015, a Chinese company called Liaoning General Aviation Academy brought its new RX1E electric trainer. AVweb took a look at the airplane and shot this news video describing the aircraft. view on YouTube

Goodyear’s newest airship, WingFoot One, represents some of the most modern technology in airship design, including three fly-by-wire vector-thrust Lycoming engines, an all-glass integrated avionics suite and a redesigned semi-rigid carbon-fiber and aluminum structure. In this video, AVweb contributing editor Larry Anglisano takes a tour of the airship at AirVenture 2015 in Oshkosh with Goodyear’s […]

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta says he doesn’t agree the FAA is acting illegally in its labor dealings with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. Huerta was responding to allegations leveled by his former director of labor and employee relations that the agency knows it is illegally funding some parts of NATCA’s union operations. As we […]

The two-seat electric-powered airplane now in development by the Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. will have a flight duration up to three hours, CEO George Bye said at EAA AirVenture this week. The airplane will be certified under Part 21, the FAA’s rules for primary aircraft, which are limited to VFR flying (day and night) and […]

AOPA says it’s endorsing an amendment to a highway bill that will include measures to relax third-class medical requirements for private pilots. The language mirrors that of the Pilot’s Bill of Rights 2 but has been proposed as an amendment to the Senate highway bill now before the chamber. It was put forth by Sen. […]