Air Shows & Events

Flight Design, GmbH, is developing from a standard Rotax 914 engine, an electric augmented powerplant that will produce an extra 40 hp for short (less than three minute) bursts of power. The company has “specifically developed for this task” an electric motor that is coupled to the prop hub through a belt drive. The goal […]

copyright Aaron Lurth Tom Poberezny and Craig Fuller give a thumbs up acknowledging the Memorandum of Understanding signed by both organizational leaders. (click for larger version) The leaders of EAA and AOPA — Tom Poberezny and Craig Fuller — met on Aeroshell Square at Oshkosh on Wednesday morning, under the nose of the huge A380, […]

The afternoon airshows at AirVenture Oshkosh are one of the event’s annual highlights, with the world’s greatest aerial performers — but Sean Tucker, whose red Oracle biplane is an annual highlight of that show, has so far been missing. “I will be there on Thursday,” he told AVweb on the phone from Milwaukee, where he […]

The last year has been a tough one for GA, but Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, said at AirVenture Oshkosh on Wednesday that most of the LSA manufacturers have been weathering the storm. “Our sales numbers are down about 25 percent compared to a year ago, but the GAMA numbers [reported […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to view the videos at the Pacific Aerospace site. The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-powered PAC-750XL plane designed primarily to haul and dump 16 skydivers is now the P-750 XSTOL and it’s being marketed by Pacific Aerospace Limited […]

Just when you might have thought that engineers were running out of wonder boxes to put in light aircraft comes word from Hawker Beechcraft and Rockwell Collins that they’ve flown a fly-by-wire Bonanza A36 with an autoland system. Rockwell Collins spokesman David Vos called it a “digital parachute.” The Bonanza did a series of hands-off […]

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 airshow crowd. Don’t see the panorama viewer? Click the thumbnails below to launch them on separate pages.

EAA AirVenture is now in full swing, which means a couple of things: (1) Our eyes are big as saucers at all the great airplanes and product announcements coming out of the show; (2) we’re having a hard time remembering whether it’s day two or day three of the show; and (3) there’s even more […]

Sir Richard Branson suited up on Tuesday for his first flight aboard WhiteKnightTwo, but before climbing aboard the big ship in Aeroshell Square — and climbing is the right word — he sat down to sign an agreement with Mohamed Badawy Al-Husseiny, CEO of Aabar Investments of Abu Dhabi. Under the deal, Aabar will invest […]

Click for larger image Click for video of the landing The arrival of the Airbus 380 at AirVenture on Tuesday afternoon drew huge crowds to the field, under bright blue skies and gusty winds, and even at its first appearance, far in the distance, it was clearly a much different kind of airliner. The airplane […]