Air Shows & Events

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 […]

A new model of the Beechcraft King Air, the C90GTx, was introduced Monday at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh. “The C90GTx is the latest example of our commitment to keeping the Beechcraft King Air family the most successful turboprop lineup in aviation history,” said Bill Boisture, CEO of Hawker Beechcraft Corp. The new version of the […]

REMOS is 2009’s leader in Light Sport Aircraft sales, CEO Corvin Huber said Tuesday at Oshkosh, and the company now plans to use a “low double-digit” investment (in millions) to create an “experiential marketing” program and do what almost no one before has done. Huber’s vision is a “total solution” approach that begins with flight […]

Brazilian airframer Embraer has a substantial presence at this week’s AirVenture Oshkosh, with a production Phenom 100 light jet on display at its booth just off AeroShell Square and a mockup of the 100’s larger cousin, the Phenom 300, nearby. “The Phenom 100’s debut at this year’s EAA AirVenture is of particular significance, since its […]

The big news from Cessna this week at AirVenture Oshkosh is obtaining ASTM approval for the Model 162 SkyCatcher LSA. But the company’s presence here at OSH — which is liberally sprinkled with Citation jets among the piston offerings — emphasizes its status as one of the remaining full-line aircraft manufacturers. And despite the recently […]

Addressing a news conference at Aeroshell Square at Oshkosh on Tuesday morning, Clive Coote, the chairman and president of Yuneec International, noted a hopeful precedent for the potential growth of electric flight — when electric motors were introduced in the remote-control market, that market quadrupled, he said, attracting many new enthusiasts, and today, 80 percent […]