AirVenture

Dave Sclair, who for many years was the publisher of the General Aviation News until he retired about 10 years ago, died on Tuesday. He started to fly in the 1960s, and soon started publishing news for the general aviation and the ultralight community. In 1990, he started General Aviation News, a large-format newspaper distributed […]

FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt made a quick visit to EAA AirVenture on Thursday and spent an hour talking with the Oshkosh crowds in the show’s big forum pavilion. He gave a short update on FAA issues, answered a list of questions from EAA president Rod Hightower, and fielded a few queries from the audience. He […]

Today we sent intern Adam out to crawl into a few cockpits and check out some airplanes on display. Enjoy the fruits of his labors. This image gallery requires JavaScript. An F-4U Corsair stares off into the sunset Wednesday. [ original size ] The ultralights are still flying at sunset on Wednesday night. [ original […]

With AirVenture in full swing, there are more crowds for intern Adam to navigate – but that hasn’t slowed him down from seeing the best and brightest Oshkosh has to offer. Nor, for that matter, did a few rain showers. This image gallery requires JavaScript. FiFi the B-29 sits on display on Tuesday evening. [ […]

Evektor introduced at AirVenture the new high-wing twin Pratt & Whitney Canada PT-6-powered 9-14 passenger workhorse, the EV-55 Outback, that it says can haul 4,021 pounds of cargo in and out of 2,300-foot unpaved strips and cruise at 220 knots. The aircraft first flew June 24. requires 2,000 feet to clear a 50-foot obstacle when […]

Mahindra Aerospace/Gippsland Aeronautics has announced that it has chosen Rolls Royce M250 turboprop for its new GA10 Airvan. The GA10 is a 10-passenger version of the eight-passenger GA8 utility aircraft, which is in service around the world. Gippsland was an Australian company that was bought by Indian conglomerate Mahindra in 2009 and the Indian company […]

They won NASA challenges for efficiency in 2007 and 2008, produce a two-seat aircraft that cruises at 147 knots on 100 hp, and now Pipistrel aims to achieve 400 passenger miles per gallon (equivalent) in their Taurus Electro G4. Pipistrel claims the twin-bodied G4 (two Taurus Electro G2 motorglider fuselages connected by a common75-ft wing) […]

Committees from the light sport industry continued their work on Wednesday at EAA AirVenture to modify the ASTM rules to allow for electric propulsion and to sort out some complex issues regarding LSA flight in instrument conditions. The groups have been meeting periodically to discuss both topics and are gradually making progress. Oliver Reinhardt, of […]

Piper Aircraft has started to build the first conforming flight-test copy of its Altaire single-engine jet, the company announced this week at EAA AirVenture. Assembly will start in August. Over the rest of this year and next, workers will build an additional four test aircraft, with first flight of the conforming prototype in 2012. The […]

Manufacturers may push the FAA to rewrite Part 23 type certification standards, basing their appeal on the perceived success of the Light Sport segment’s ASTM “industry consensus standards,” Dan Johnson said at AirVenture, Wednesday. Johnson is chairman of the board and president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association (LAMA) and said that possibility is one […]