Sun ‘N Fun

Piper announced this week that its M600 turboprop and piston twins will soon be available with angle-of-attack systems from Safe Flight. The systems will be offered as options by the third quarter of 2018, Piper CEO Simon Caldecott said in a press conference at Sun ‘n Fun. The Safe Flight system, which is STC’d for […]

Headset manufacturer Lightspeed Aviation says it’s expanding its aviation philanthropic efforts by focusing in-kind donations of headsets to scholarship and learn-to-fly programs. At a press conference at Sun ‘n Fun 2018 in Lakeland this week, Lightspeed CEO Allan Schrader says past donations have been funneled into compassionate giving, but now the company is interested in […]

Sun ‘n Fun President John “Lites” Leenhouts announced on Monday that the Air Force has sent the Air Combat Command F-16 Viper Demonstration Team to fill the vacant performance spot left when the Thunderbirds cancelled their scheduled performance last Thursday. The cancellation was due to the loss of Thunderbird pilot Maj. Stephen Del Bagno in […]

What better way to learn how to fly than in a taildragger Cub? That’s the idea behind a new organization called Kids Fly Cubs, which is working to set up learn-to-fly promotions using Legend Cub serial number 1 loaned by American Legend, the Texas-based company that has been manufacturing updated Cubs for more than a […]

For as fun as airplanes are to fly, it’s even more interesting—at least to me—to contemplate how they’re built. And I don’t mean how a rib is riveted to a wing, but how the builders of these things organize the production of airplanes into an orderly flow. In other words, the economics of serial production. […]

As Sun ‘n Fun opens Tuesday, Bose announced a new noise-cancelling in-ear headset called the ProFlight Aviation Headset. The new product, Bose’s first aviation headset since the A20 was introduced in 2010, is aimed at the cabin class and turbine market, whose cockpits have lower noise levels. See a full video on the new headset […]

Sun ‘n Fun 2018 opens this week in Lakeland, Florida. In this AVweb pre-show video, Sun ‘n Fun president Lites Leenhouts outlines what’s coming up during the week. view on YouTube

At Sun ‘n Fun 2018 in Lakeland, Florida, Bose introduced a new in-ear headset called the ProFlight. Bose’s Matt Ruwe gave AVweb a detailed tour of the new product, which features noise cancellation and Bluetooth capability. view on YouTube

AOPA will be holding a Rusty Pilots seminar at Sun ‘n Fun this year for pilots who have been out of the air for a while and are looking to get flying again. In this podcast, AOPA’s Jamie Beckett told AVweb about some updates to the program and how pilots of all levels of currency […]

Fresh from showing its M600 turboprop for the first time at Chile’s FIDAE exposition, Piper is touring the airplane throughout South America and seeing signs that the aircraft market is waking up. Piper’s Latin American sales executive, Dan Lewis, told AVweb that the company has tripled its sales forecast for Brazil and demand in the […]