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Construction on the hangar that will become B-29 Doc’s permanent home is on time and under budget, director of Doc’s Friends Josh Wells announced at AirVenture 2018 on Thursday. Doc is one of only two B-29s still flying. The B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center, located in Wichita, Kansas, is expected to be completed this […]

In 2013, Jack Pelton first took the helm at AirVenture, marking the first time the show was not led by a member of the founding Poberezny family. He acted as chairman of the board from 2012 until 2015, when he was officially named CEO. Terrafugia flew its Transition flying car in public for the first […]

I’m pleased to report my record as an aviation seer—never much to brag about to begin with—is now even more tarnished. I was fully expecting this to be the year that electric aircraft would make a bigger splash at AirVenture. But, just ripples. We reported on the Opener BlackFly in this video and news story […]

Garmin comes to AirVenture 2018 at Oshkosh with a variety of product announcements and enhancements, including a new line of pilot smartwatches, more autopilot STC’s, a new weather radar and more. Larry Anglisano spent some time in the big Garmin tent and prepared this report. view on YouTube

Redbird Flight Simulations is developing a Cessna Caravan amphibious flight simulator. In this AVweb video, we took it for a test run at AirVenture 2018. view on YouTube

Noise cancelling headsets are a cockpit standard, but even the least expensive ones aren’t exactly cheap. So why not use a consumer grade ANR? Well, no microphone. And that’s the dilemma a company called NFlight Technology wants to address with a gadget intended to add an aviation-quality microphone to consumer headsets like the Sony MDR. […]

Mission Aviation Fellowship delivers humanitarian aid to remote locations throughout the world, and that takes a special combination of talent and utility. The organization has found a perfect marriage in the short-body Cessna Caravan attached to a pair of Wipaire 8750 amphibious floats. The 100th shipset of the 8750 floats will soon be winging its […]

After 10 years of annual gatherings, participants at the CAFE Foundation’s Electric Aviation Symposium are “starting to get realistic about technology, business strategies and certification,” executive director Yolanka Wulff told AVweb this week. There are more than 100 eVTOL projects now in development, she said. “There’s a call for companies to work together, and maybe […]

Hemlock Films announced at AirVenture 2018 that the premier season of its documentary series of The Restorers is scheduled to be released for the first time on Veterans Day 2018. The series was inspired by Hemlock’s 2003 documentary titled The Restorers: Giving History a Future…, which won an Emmy Award in 2004. Like its predecessor, […]