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Boeing says the world will need more than half a million pilots over the next 20 years and it’s ramping up its efforts to fill the training gap. At a news conference at EAA AirVenture, Sherry Carbary, VP of Boeing Flight Services, said aerospace will generate $5.6 trillion in revenues in that time as more […]

Flight Design is moving along with its work on its four-seat aircraft, the C4, company leaders said at EAA AirVenture on Tuesday. Since the first flight,in April, the proof-of-concept aircraft has flown several more times, performing tests at weights up to 2,640 pounds gross. The aircraft has demonstrated a rate of climb of more than […]

Italian aircraft maker Tecnam announced this week its single-engine P2010 is nearing FAA certification. The four-place, high-wing airplane first flew in 2012 and received its European certification in September 2014. According to the company, it’s the first four-place single-engine with the high-wing configuration to be certified in recent decades. More than 25 of the airplanes […]

Five sets of kit wings under assembly on the AirVenture grounds this week will go to five EAA chapters across North America after they’re completed. The wing-building program, Give Flight, partners EAA with three kitplane makers – Sonex Aircraft, Van’s Aircraft and Zenith Aircraft, along with Aircraft Spruce and Specialty, which is donating tools for […]

Former EAA President Tom Poberezny hasn’t been to AirVenture since he retired four years ago, but thanks to an invitation from Cirrus Aircraft he spent Monday roaming the grounds in Red Three, the chopped-top Volkswagen he used when he was still in charge. He took AVweb’s Russ Niles along for a ride on a windy […]

Boeing says more than half a million each of pilots and techs will be needed to feed the planet’s voracious appetite for air travel over the next 20 years and now is the time to attract them. AVweb spoke with Boeing’s Sherry Carbary about how that might happen. Duration: 2:36 File Size: 2.4 MB download […]

EAA will get the first Icon A5 Light Sport amphib and will use it for Young Eagles flights. At a well-attended event at AirVenture 2015, Icon CEO Kirk Hawkins said part of the impetus behind the development of the aircraft was to bring new pilots to aviation. He said the Young Eagles participants who have […]

Avidyne sees the future of avionics—or at least one version of it—driven by independent developers of apps that can work with panel-mount products through Bluetooth and wireless. And to make that future a reality, it announced at AirVenture Monday a software developer kit for its IFR440/540 panel-mount GPS/FMS units. Both of these products have built-in […]

As the industry continues to push back against the high price of new aircraft, another company has joined the emerging trend in remanufactured aircraft. In conjunction with AOPA, Wichita-based Yingling Aviation announced Monday at AirVenture the Ascend 172, a ground-up remanufacture of the popular Cessna Skyhawk. As are several other shops, Yingling is restoring older […]

The core of the AirVenture airshow schedule tends to be somewhat predictable from year to year because popular acts are popular because people like to see them year after year. Still, every year brings something new and this year, one of the new things is a world record skydiving event, beginning on Wednesday and continuing […]