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A group called The Perlan Project plans to launch a glider to 90,000 feet in July 2012, riding lift generated by the southern polar vortex and the Andes Mountains. The group currently holds the altitude record for sailplanes, set in 2006 by Einar Enevoldson and the late Steve Fossett, at 50,671 feet. For the new […]

Matthieu de Quillacq told us Monday at Oshkosh that he is “a lucky man” and not because he survived his trip to Oshkosh from the south of France in his Italian-made Kompress CH-7 very light helicopter. Long before the weeklong trip that brought Quillacq to AirVenture Oshkosh 2010, Quillacq won a timed point-to-point navigation contest […]

To start up the hydrogen-peroxide-powered single-seat Dragonfly helicopter, the pilot pushes a few times on a fuel-pump crank handle, the fuel climbs up to the rotor hub and travels out to a tiny combustion chamber in the rotor tips, then it’s vaporized and ejected, creating thrust. “The only emission is water vapor,” says Ricardo Cavalcanti, […]

A company that does gas-electric auto conversions in California, a technology integration company, and Sikorsky have teamed up to prove the manned electric helicopter by way of Project Firefly. The Firefly is actually an S300C two-seat bare-bones helicopter. Sikorsky has had the S300C’s original Lycoming HIO 360 engine swapped out for a permanent magnet electric […]

Our intrepid photographer Mariano Rosales is now on-site, and he and intern Adam Cutler wandered the field to get a look at some of the aircraft on display at this year’s show. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW Falcon 50 winglet. Ford trimotor. Harmon rocket. Lancair Evolution. Legend […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Did The Last Time get the last word on a huge formation flight of DC-3s over AirVenture Oshkosh? About 20 DC-3s flew over the grounds, apparently above the 2,500-foot ceiling of the restricted […]

AVweb‘s AirVenture intern Adam Cutler was among the first folks to arrive at the show. Adam made the journey this year by Cirrus and spent his first day at the show ferrying our news team around the field and taking photos of exhibitors, attendees, and media gearing up for the big show amid some very […]

It was way back in 1998 when Bose came out with the Bose Headset X. The headset has remained a strong seller even though it lacks Bluetooth connectivity and music input. As of today the company is retiring the Headset X and replacing it with the Bose A20 Headset. Bose claims the new headset is […]

Garmin made several announcements at an AirVenture press conference today. The biggest item is for GPSMap 696 owners who have complained that the approach plates don’t show the position of the aircraft on the approach. Soon they can. The software upgrade for the 696 to support georeferenced charts is available now and the charts with […]

Lycoming Engine general manager Michael Kraft continued to speak on the 100LL fuel replacement issue by urging pilots and owners to do a little speaking themselves: to their elected representatives and especially to the alphabets — AOPA, EAA and NBAA. As he has in past weeks, Kraft continued an aggressive narrative on the avgas replacement […]