Air Shows & Events

For light airframes, Lycoming’s 100-horsepower O-235 series has proven a durable choice and now the company is updating it for the emerging LSA market with the new IO-233. The O-235 serves as the basis for this new engine, but it has electronic ignition, a throttle-body injector unit and redesigned induction plumbing, according to Mike Kraft, […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association has reacted angrily to Acting FAA Administrator Bobby Sturgell’s comment at EAA AirVenture that it would “cost a billion dollars to give NATCA what they want” in a new contract with the agency. NATCA President Patrick Forrey told AVweb the union has met all the FAA’s financial goals set […]

Lycoming showed AirVenture 2008 that it’s bullish on the light aircraft market by unveiling a new variant of the popular O-540 series, the TEO-540-A, a 350-horspower engine with a full authority digital engine control, the second such certified system for piston engines to hit the market. Lycoming’s Mike Kraft told AVweb that the new engine […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. The U.S.’s first private airport designed to accommodate airliners will open in May of next year and will be a new wrinkle in air transportation. The $155 million airport, with a 7,200-foot runway […]

Stung by the bankruptcy of Thielert Aircraft Engines in Germany, Diamond Aircraft is aggressively pushing the Austro diesel engine as a replacement for its DA42 and DA40 line and to prove it, they brought one to AirVenture. A number of Diamond diesel aircraft were stranded AOG when Thielert went under in April of this year. […]

EAA AirVenture 2008 is in full swing, and we’re having a blast. Take a few moments to wander the show grounds with us in this virtual walkaround. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW A B-25 lands on runway 36L. The line for departures Thursday morning stretched along the […]

Forward.Vision announced this week at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008 marketing and OEM agreements designed to make the company’s EVS-100 infrared-based enhanced vision system available on many more experimental aircraft. The company also announced it had received RTCA DO-160E approval, paving the way for its first installation STCs. Airframe manufacturers embracing the EVS-100 include Comp Air, […]

Ordinary automotive gasoline won’t cut it as a leadless replacement for avgas according to the CEO of TCM Continental Motors. Rhett Ross told reporters at a news conference Thursday that the use of ethanol and the host of other additives that go into auto fuel to compensate for temperature and other conditions make it unpredictable […]

Patty Wagstaff’s incredible flying exploits are well-known to millions of fans, but less well-known is how Patty spends her off-season — for the last six years, she has spent the winter in Africa, training park wardens in Kenya, so they can fly air patrols to deter poachers. Under Patty’s instruction, the accident rate of the […]

Garmin hosted a session at its seminar tent that was billed as an update to ADS-B. But the truth seems to be there’s not much new to report. A Q&A session after the presentation got down to the more nitty-gritty: ADS-B will be required by 2020 but the details of what compliant equipment will be […]