Air Shows & Events

AVweb’s regular perusal of SocialFlight found enough excitement for any aviation junkie this weekend-from the Reno Air Races through Wings and Wheels events to a breakfast tradition that has been going on since 1938. The National Championship Air Races-the world’s fastest motorsport, bar none-have already started at Reno Stead Airport, Nevada, and will run through […]

True story: During my first visit to AirVenture, known as “Oshkosh,” around 1996, I brought my hand held radio to listen to the tower. I heard a guy ask one question:“Tower, can you tell me where the traffic is?” Tower responded:“Sir, their is traffic in front of you, behind you, to your left, to your […]

AVweb’s weekly look at the aviation activities on SocialFlight uncovered everything from an Aire Faire at Bonne Terre through a Horse Bend Festival, a Display Day and a Wings N’ Wheels celebration. The Bonne Terre Aire Festival is taking place on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 6 and 7, at the Bonne Terre, Missouri Airport. From […]

Our weekly review of aviation events on SocialFlightuncovered everything from a fly-in cookout through a Big Toy Day to a PilotPalooza coming up this weekend. Middlebury State Airport, Vermont, is hosting a cookout fly-in Saturday, Aug. 23, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Organizers report that burgers, hot dogs and more food will be served […]

Letter of the Week:Hangar Policy Proposal No doubt this proposal makes sense in some arcane budget discussion among ignoramuses divorced from aviation. But saying aircraft can’t be built in an airport hangar simply to preclude inappropriate use of federally funded airports makes about as much sense as saying birth can’t occur at home because the […]

Honda Aircraft showed the first production model of its new business jet at AirVenture 2014. Honda’s Andrew Broom took AVweb through the aircraft. view on YouTube

Thanks to AVWeb for supplying the opportunity for EAA’s guest blog posting about the new FAA hangar-use policy. Anytime we can work together to bring more knowledge and information to aviators, the better it is for all of us. AVweb’s “Hangar Policy Lunacy” editorial last Friday makes the point exactly right: None of us are […]

Sometimes, I’m glad our readers are paying attention because I’m not sure we always are. By “we,” I mean the editorial we; the crack, watchdog aviation press. Specifically, I’m referring to the FAA’s hangar policy toward homebuilding that escaped the Level 4 bio containment last week and never should have. It set the AVweb (and […]

We just looked at SocialFlight and confirmed that AirVenture exhaustion is a myth-it’s still summer and everything aviation is going strong-airshows, fly-in breakfasts and even a pig roast. The Pike’s Peak Regional Airshow takes place on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 9 and 10, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Colorado Springs, Colorado, Airport. […]

My wife keeps a detailed diary of her daily life, but I lack the discipline so I’m guessing about how many times I’ve been to Oshkosh. I think it’s 27 years or thereabouts. For me, personally, this year’s show was among the most interesting, vibrant and energetic. I finished up on Sunday morning exhausted, but […]