Air Shows & Events

Aviators headed to Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida, this week can expect all the usual … daily airshows, thousands of airplanes to look at, forums and workshops, tents and hangars filled with new technology to buy … but they’ll also find an expanded focus on education and careers. The second-annual career fair is sold […]

The idea of a nationwide aircraft rental network has faced significant headwinds in the past, but the latest iteration of it, OpenAirplane, appears to be gaining traction. At Sun ‘n Fun this week, OpenAirplane’s Rod Rakic told AVweb that the network of participating rental operators continues to grow and now totals 83. Rakic said OpenAirplane, […]

With almost 34,000 visitors from 60 countries, officials at Aero Friedrichshafen said attendance showed a “marked increase” over previous years. “International visitors in particular generated strong momentum for the aviation show,” according to the news release sent out on Monday. The number of exhibitors, 645 from 38 countries, and the number of new products presented, […]

Most instructors these days, when pressed to give an ideal number of hours for a new student to solo, will say it’s 10 hours in the airplane. So, all things being equal, can you do that in a week? Sure. Redbird’s “One Week Ready to Solo” campaign, now four days in at Sun ‘n Fun […]

A supersonic warbird and a new fighter jet will make their debuts in the military lineup at EAA’s AirVenture in July. Dean “Cutter” Cutshall of Indiana will show his North American F-100F Super Sabre, the first U.S. Air Force fighter plane capable of supersonic level flight, EAA said. It was the first of the Century […]

Stemme, a German glider company that also has a U.S. subsidiary, Stemme USA, in South Carolina, brought its newest aircraft to Aero Friedrichshafen this week, the S12 motorglider. The new model flew for the first time just a few weeks ago, and was unveiled to the public here at the show, company spokesman Francesco Iarz […]

Avilution LLC, which is developing software for a new flight management system, will demonstrate a prototype with a Zenith CH750 at Sun ‘n Fun in Florida next week. The eXtensible Flight System will initially target the experimental aircraft market, Avilution founder Mark Spencer told AVweb via email. “However, we are architecting, designing and writing the […]

In a first visit to Aero, it’s hard to escape this harsh reality — around every corner, there is another beautiful, stunning, interesting aircraft — but it’s difficult or next to impossible for an American to buy one. On my first day here, I visited the Risen sport plane, developed by Swiss Excellence Airplanes. For […]

The first exhibit at the main entrance to Aero Friedrichshafen this year celebrates electric-powered flight, with a collection of aircraft that share the theme “ecological, electrical, and evolutionary.” The aircraft on display include China’s RX1E, which is on track to become the first electric-powered airplane in serial production. “The airplane was certified in February, and […]