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Internet Aviation Magazine and News ServiceThe Official On-Line News Service for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2000www.avweb.com “Special Internet Web Site Advertising Available For EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2000” 2.2 Million total impressions generated Each year AVweb Internet Aviation Magazine and News Service provides special online coverage of the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow. This coverage, presented in a […]

Look for more images, plus a special report, on AVweb for March 16. Aerobatics star Patty Wagstaff signs copies of NASA’s new poster promoting women in aviation and aerospace careers, unveiled at WAI 2000. Also signing posters was NASA astronaut Eileen Collins (seated) and Mary Feik (far left), a member of the WAI Pioneer Hall […]

Be sure to check out our collection of images from WAI 2000. “Woman Power In Action!” WAI Rides High On Good Economic Times, Pilot Shortage Aspassengers disembarked from a Continental Express Embraer 145 regional jet atMemphis International last Wednesday, a young woman stuck her head into thecockpit to ask, “Are you all going to the […]

The Heli-Expo 2000 exhibit floor was crowded with booths and displays, plus a record-territory number of  attendees. This mock-up of the forthcoming Agusta/Bell AB139 drew plenty of attention. This is a 12-pax twin. The latest variant of Sikorsky’s S-76. Bell’s 427, in PHI colors. They might fly differently than a fixed-wing aircraft, but they’re all […]

IFR Rules, New Ships Bode Well; Noise Issues, Neighbors Bedevil Potential A week ago Friday, the FAA acknowledged that helicopters are, well, different.After years of wishing and hoping, lobbying and praying by the helicoptercommunity, the folks at 800 Independence took the “FAR”-reaching stepof publishing rules changes for IFR helicopter flights that lower fuel-reserverequirements and ceiling […]

Also, be sure to check out our collection of images from NBAA ’99: The people, the exhibit floor, the static display and, of course, the aircraft. Gloomy Outside The Hall, Sunny Inside NBAA ’99 Enjoys The Glow Of Growth In Business Aviation Users And Products Good thing it wasn’t an airshow. The mood and the […]

Gulfstream’s 61st G-V gave rise to the idea that there’s a veritable air force of them flying around. This is not your father’s Huey – it’s Bell’s model 427. The Bell 427’s front office. There is another Bell in your future – the Bell/Agusta 609 Tiltrotor. Cessna’s booth was one of the largest. Gulfstream’s booth […]

Back to AVweb’s daily coverage of Reno ’99 Preview Rare Bear, Lyle Shelton’s highly modified F8F Bearcat returns to Reno. In practice on Tuesday, the Bear broke a clamp holding an exhaust stack damaging a cylinder and other engine components. The crew was finishing up the cylinder change-out on Wednesday afternoon. After P-51 “Voodoo Chile” […]

NOTE: AVweb’s coverage includes many more photos. Preview  |  Day 1  |  Day 2  |  Day 3  |  Final Day Preview Reno — to air racing fans, the name conjures up thoughts of Mustangs, SeaFuries and Bearcats in full cry bending around the pylons on the racecourse atReno/Stead Airport. The P-51s, Furies and ‘Cats of […]

While I was at EAA AirVenture ’99 in Oshkosh, I had thehonor of interviewing Paul Poberezny, whotold me, “Flying on the airlines isn’t flying, it’s transportation.” At thetime, I didn’t appreciate the significance of Paul’s remark quite as fully as I do now. My trip to Oshkosh was flying. I flew there in Mike Busch’s […]