Air Shows & Events

Cessna is teaming up with George Bye of Bye Energy to design a proof-of-concept electric-powered 172, Cessna said this week at EAA AirVenture. “As we look at the landscape of alternative fuels for general aviation aircraft, the electric powerplant offers significant benefits, but there are significant challenges to get there,” said Cessna CEO Jack Pelton. […]

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. One aircraft attracting a lot of attention at EAA AirVenture this week is the Kestrel, a single-engine turboprop design that’s been under development in the UK for a number of years. The project […]

In a conversation at Oshkosh Friday, Pipistrel confirmed to AVweb that we should expect their coming hybrid-driven four-seater to cruise at 200 KTAS, while burning less than 10 gallons per hour. And we should expect to see it unveiled before July 2011. Discussion of the aircraft’s powerplant suggest something like a Lycoming four-cylinder around 200 […]

Burt Rutan, in one of the seven talks he will be giving during EAA AirVenture this week, addressed the World Electric Symposium at the EAA museum on Friday, and said the “most impressive thing I have ever seen anywhere in aerospace” was a remotely controlled, dynamically soaring glider that he watched fly from the top […]

The efforts of Yuneec, Sonex and Lange Aviation were recognized at EAA AirVenture on Friday as the three were awarded the first Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prizes. Yuneec took the honors for the best example of an electric aircraft, the E430; Sonex won for its efforts in developing subsystems and components; and Axel Lange took the […]

Honda Aircraft Company has concluded electrical-system checks of its first conforming flight test HondaJet, and its first static test aircraft is ready to endure static structural testing in August. Successful completion of power-on tests means that Honda can begin integration of the avionics and electrical systems and begin assembly of what they call “the most […]

California photographer Brian Flanagan captured images of the last seconds of Jack Roush’s Beechcraft Premier 1 as it dipped a wing and then pancaked on an infield area of Wittman Regional Airport Tuesday evening. The sequence shows the aircraft in a relatively steep bank over the runway before it hits hard, collapsing the gear as […]

So what did Mariano and Adam get up to today? They seem to have stayed out of trouble by taking in the afternoon air show (and, we’d wager, probably a few bratwursts). CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW AeroShell Aerobatic Team. AeroShell Aerobatic Team. Chuck Aaron. Duggy Dropping […]

“We’ll take other airplanes as trade-ins — and if a customer has a deposit on another jet, we’ll take that in trade, too,” Eclipse Aerospace President Mason Holland told AVweb at EAA AirVenture on Thursday. Holland flew into the show in his own Eclipse jet, but it was parked off the field at an FBO […]

Jonathan Trappe, a certificated balloon pilot who has redefined the concept of lawn-chair-small-balloon flying, launched from EAA’s AirVenture grounds on Thursday evening in his cluster balloon system with the aim to probably fly all night long. As of 10 p.m. Thursday night, he had crossed Lake Winnebago and was tracking southeast, making about 7 mph […]