Air Shows & Events

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 […]

To start up the hydrogen-peroxide-powered single-seat Dragonfly helicopter, the pilot pushes a few times on a fuel-pump crank handle, the fuel climbs up to the rotor hub and travels out to a tiny combustion chamber in the rotor tips, then it’s vaporized and ejected, creating thrust. “The only emission is water vapor,” says Ricardo Cavalcanti, […]

A company that does gas-electric auto conversions in California, a technology integration company, and Sikorsky have teamed up to prove the manned electric helicopter by way of Project Firefly. The Firefly is actually an S300C two-seat bare-bones helicopter. Sikorsky has had the S300C’s original Lycoming HIO 360 engine swapped out for a permanent magnet electric […]

Our intrepid photographer Mariano Rosales is now on-site, and he and intern Adam Cutler wandered the field to get a look at some of the aircraft on display at this year’s show. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW Falcon 50 winglet. Ford trimotor. Harmon rocket. Lancair Evolution. Legend […]