Air Shows & Events

Alternative fuels, electronic engine controls and firewall-forward upgrades of so-called “legacy” aircraft are among the ongoing research and development projects on which Lycoming Engines briefed AirVenture Oshkosh 2009 attendees Monday. Senior Vice President and General Manager Ian Walsh highlighted his company’s continuing involvement in projects as diverse as alternative fuels (including the promising Swift Fuel), […]

EAA AirVenture is not yet open to the public, but we took advantage of the day to talk with vendors and attendees preparing for show. We also armed AVweb intern Adam Cutler with a camera and set him loose on an unsuspecting Oshkosh. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW […]

If there’s an established trend in portable navigators, it’s buyers asking for-or at least manufacturers providing-approach plates and charts in electronic form. Bendix/King joined the club Sunday at AirVenture with the new AV8OR ACE portable, a follow-on to a product it introduced last year. The ACE has the same basic software platform as the previous […]

If you live and work in remote parts of the world where roads are scarce, Steve Saint’s Maverick design could be just what you need. It drives off-road, it can deploy a sort-of parachute wing with less than five minutes of tinkering, you can even take off the tires and replace them with pontoons for […]

The folks at Carter Aviation Technologies have been talking about their personal air vehicle project for a couple of years now, and on Sunday at EAA AirVenture they debuted the prototype. The four-seat gyrocopter combines vertical takeoff and landing capabilities with efficient high-speed flight and a 600-mile nonstop range, the company said. President Jay Carter […]

Fly4LifeThe public benefit presence organized by EAA’s Fly4Life program this year at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh showcases what for the people it serves is a critically important segment of general aviation — some 63 organizations staffed by pilots who donate their time and aircraft to offer the benefit of flight to people who could not otherwise […]

EAA AirVenture leaves an impression on everyone who attends and now attendees can leave a permanent record of their passion for Oshkosh. EAA is selling paving bricks around the newly redone “Brown Arch” that has been the prominent landmark entrance to the main aircraft parking area since just after the event moved to Oshkosh in […]

AVweb caught up with Carl Dietrich, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Terrafugia Inc., Sunday, at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh to discuss the aerodynamic challenges revealed through testing and 28 flights of its roadable aircraft prototype, and where the company is headed now. In short, the prototype proved that the lift generated by the canard was […]

Click for larger version When Teledyne Continental said it wanted to prove that high-performance engines could operate on unleaded fuel a few months back, it generated some doubting glances. But at AirVenture on Sunday it proved it was serious by flying into Oshkosh a turbocharged Cirrus SR22 tankered with what will eventually become 94UL aviation […]

Although its PowerLink FADEC hasn’t met with much market acceptance, TCM says the project still has legs. As part of its certification of the TSIO-550, the company is moving forward with a FADEC-controlled turbocharged engine, according to Rhett Ross, TCM’s president. Presumably, the system would the PowerLink’s ability to control fuel pulse and ignition timing […]