Air Shows & Events

It’s our fifth day at EAA AirVenture 2009 and the fourth day of the show. Yes, we’re recovered our ability to tell which day is which, and even though we’re still a little bleary-eyed and maybe just a tad bit unkempt, we’re having more fun than airplane people should be allowed. Join our AirVenture intern […]

On Thursday, we sent Aviation Safety editor-in-chief Jeb Burnside out to the Seaplane Base at EAA AirVenture. In exchange for his freedom, we demanded pictures – and Jeb brought back three galleries’ worth of awesome snapshots. This is the second of these galleries. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW […]

The “North 40” is on the north end of the airport and surrounds the crosswind runway 9-27. It serves as the general parking lot for aircraft just flying in for the day, and also as a campground for pilots that want to camp out next to their airplane. Don’t see the panorama viewer? Click the […]

On Thursday, we sent Aviation Safety editor-in-chief Jeb Burnside out to the Seaplane Base at EAA AirVenture. In exchange for his freedom, we demanded pictures – and Jeb brought back three galleries’ worth of awesome snapshots. This is the first. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW

Over a year ago, Randle Fishman moved electric flight in a small airplane from paper to reality when he equipped a single-engine Moni motorglider with an electric engine and lithium-polymer batteries and took flight. This year he brought his almost-complete ElectraFlyer X to Oshkosh. This two-seat, electric-powered aircraft features side-by-side seating for two and is […]

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.