Air Shows & Events

When it’s time to go flying, Michelle McGuire has a reluctant husband but a willing and happy black Lab. Cockpit noise is even worse for dogs’ ears than for ours, and McGuire felt she had to do something to protect her pooch’s hearing. After searching in vain for a solution and failing to come up […]

EAA President Tom Poberezny said on Thursday at AirVenture that EAA will expand its collaboration with Aero Friedrichshafen, the biggest GA air show in Europe. “So far, our collaborative efforts have functioned superbly,” said Thomas Grunewald, project director of Aero. “We want to keep working together as partners to meet the challenges that lie ahead […]

Previous Martin Jetpack Videos At last year’s AirVenture, a start-up company from New Zealand created the biggest buzz of the show with an unlikely contraption called the Martin Jetpack. The fallout from Glenn Martin’s Oshkosh appearance has spawned a new corporate structure, plans for a factory and technical advances that Martin says could eventually create […]

FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, who was just confirmed to the post in May, got a warm welcome Thursday morning on his first visit to AirVenture Oshkosh, where he gave a short talk and took questions from the audience in the Honda Forum Pavilion on Thursday morning. But before getting started, Babbitt honored EAA founder Paul […]

Looking west from the Canon Photo Platform next to the IAC building you can see the display aircraft on Aeroshell Square, the control tower, and part of the air show crowd. Don’t see the panorama viewer? Click the thumbnails below to launch them on separate pages.

Looking south from the Canon Photo Platform next to the IAC building you can see the airshow performers staging area and part of the airshow crowd. Don’t see the panorama viewer? Click the thumbnails below to launch them on separate pages.

We were wondered where AVweb intern Adam Cutler disappeared to yesterday. Apparently he got some time aboard the A380 and worked his way down to the seaplane base. Meanwhile, contributing photographer Mariano Rosales has been snapping photos like crazy and creating some amazing panoramic photos we’ll be sharing with you in upcoming galleries. (Scroll to […]

Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and first officer Jeff Skiles drew a huge crowd to the Honda Forum Pavilion at AirVenture Oshkosh on Thursday afternoon — the audience filled every seat and spilled out dozens deep from both sides and the back, and even passing rain showers didn’t drive them away — and the crew was […]

This is GE Aviation’s second appearance at AirVenture Oshkosh and it’s only been one year since the company acquired Walter Aircraft Engines, but they’ve already hung their new soon-to-be-certified enhanced version of the robust Walter M601 on a soon to be certified production aircraft. That aircraft is Thrush Aircraft’s new 510-gallon, 10,500-pound gross weight, Thrush […]

Evergreen International’s newly certified B747 firefighting Supertanker can reach a fire at speeds near 600 mph, slow down, and then drop more than 20,000 gallons of payload on it – and the company hopes to put it to work in Alaska to do just that this week. This wildfire attack is a first for Evergreen, […]