Air Shows & Events

Join AVweb’s team at OSH ’98! Are you an aviation enthusiast and reasonably sharp computer graphics typethat’d like an expense paid working vacation to OSH for 8-9 days? Ourgraphics guy just bailed on us as a result of a family crisis and we’dlike to have someone competent to do this work for us at OSH […]

It’s like the tattooed biker my Mom always warnedme to avoid. “It’s for your own good,” she would say. “Something like that will only bring you grief.” MaybeDelmar Benjamin’s mother never told him to stay away from thingsthat would hurt him. Or, maybe she did and he just wasn’t listening. Benjamin is a lanky blond […]

This air show and aviation get-together is in someways like a wonderful meal. Every wonderful meal starts with extensivepreparation and that’s exactly what has occurred at Oshkosh 98with the forums and hands on workshops. They are a smorgasbordfor those hungry for a safer, better, and more pleasant flyingexperience. For appetizers there are the “How to” […]

One of the exciting things about the EAAAirVenture Oshkosh is meeting some of the old timers of experimental aviation such as KenFlaglor. Flaglor, now 72, holds “court” at the communications building atWittman Regional Airport during the flying and has done so at all the EAA conventionsexcept two, the very first and the convention in Milwaukee […]

Picture yourself at the skinny end of a funnel. You have to decide how much of what went in the fat end gets tocome out the skinny end, and in what order. Now imagine that airplanesare what went in the other end. All kinds of airplanes. From cabinclass twins to tiny single-seat experimentals. Controllers havenightmares […]

DailyPrize Drawing The AVweb sponsors have teamed up to donate a bunch of neat prizes for us togive away during OSH 98! Every day we will be drawing a lucky winner to receive oneof the prizes listed below. Just drop by the AVweb booth and fill out an entry form.It’s that easy! Every day at […]

Bose Corporation of Framingham, MA, inventors ofnoise reduction headset technology that set the industry standard,today announced the introduction of a revolutionary new headsetwith holes. That’s right, holes. Called the Headset X, it incorporates”Tri Port Technology” which includes three holes ineach ear cup. These holes seem at first to be an illogical approachto designing headsets for […]

NOTE: AVweb contains a RealAudio clip of the Bainbridge/Garvey exchange at EAA’s “Meet The Boss” session. One of the most emotional moments in the “Meet theChief” session came from B & C Specialty Products, Inc., President BillBainbridge. Bainbridge was trembling visibly as he asked FAA Administrator Jane Garvey whyan agency that claims to work “with” […]

Actually, throw another 254 brats on the barbie. AirVenture Oshkosh 1998 was officially opened this afternoonwhen an Air New Zealand 747-400 landed at Wittman Field at 1341.The flight was carrying 254 passengers from six countries whogathered in Sydney, Australia, stopped in Los Angeles, and thencontinued on to Oshkosh-Nineteen hours flying time. Gee, somepeople will go […]

What a monster. What a behemoth. What a ride! TheGrumman Albatross is the biggest in the line of a fleet of fabulousflying boats. The Widgeon, Goose, Mallard and Albatross make upthe Grumman line of flying boats in ascending order of size—andsize is what the Albatross has. You’d better bring your fortyfoot ladder to pre-flight this […]