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FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said at EAA AirVenture on Wednesday that the homebuilt community needs to do a better job of preventing accidents. “Last year, amateur-built aircraft accounted for 25 percent of all general aviation accidents,” he said. “But the troubling number here is that they represent only 10 percent of GA aircraft. We’re trying […]

On Tuesday morning, about 20 representatives of various public benefit flying groups met with representatives of the NTSB at EAA AirVenture to talk about how they plan to address the concerns expressed by the safety board in a letter issued last month. Rol Murrow, chairman of the Air Care Alliance, told AVweb the meeting was […]

It takes a couple of days to shake off the jetlag from all the packing and and checkpoints of getting to Oshkosh by commercial flights. Fortunately, Mariano Rosales knows just how to shake the dirt off his boots and get into the spirit of AirVenture – with a trip to check out the ultralights. CLICK […]

Adept Airmotive reports that its new V-6 aircraft engine took its maiden flight last week in South Africa in a Ravin 500 experimental aircraft. In a podcast earlier this year, Adept’s Richard Schulz gave us a detailed rundown on the engine, a sophisticated 120-degree V-6 design with electronic controls and exceptionally light weight. Although the […]

Click for larger version NASCAR team owner and veteran pilot and aircraft collector Jack Roush, 68, is in serious but stable condition after his Beechcraft Premier pancaked on the airport and slid across the grass at Wittman Regional Airport. His passenger Brenda Strickland, 61, was also taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. EAA is […]

The Environmental Protection Agency told GA’s Avgas Coalition that the agency “has not established or proposed any date by which lead emissions from aircraft operating on leaded avgas would need to be reduced. In fact, the EPA does not have authority to control aviation fuels.” The EPA’s statement came in a response to a request […]

In an effort to calm rising fears over the apparent lack of discernible progress on finding a replacement for 100LL, leaders of all the major alphabets held a fuel forum at AirVenture on Tuesday that produced this overarching message: Aircraft owners and operators shouldn’t panic about the future lack of a 100LL replacement just yet, […]

The Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF’s) B-29, FIFI, has been fully restored to reclaim its title as the world’s only flying B-29. The CAF says it’s about to go on tour, and they’re selling rides. The “Red, White & Loud Tour” begins on Aug. 28 & 29 at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Denver and will […]

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 […]