Aviation News

If you’re tired of the traditional fly-in or $100 hamburger, there’s Burning Man. This free-form collection of artists and whatever in the desert near Gerlach, Nev., is busy enough that it rates a temporary tower for the airstrip. Bring food, water, a dust mask and your free spirit… A landing floatplane ripped the fiberglass roof […]

The TSA says a Cape Air pilot is not a security threat after all, settling a lawsuit… NASA and the U.S. Air Force this week formed an aeronautics research partnership to cooperate on studies of advanced aircraft design, propulsion, materials, and aviation safety… It could take 20 years to perfect missile-defense systems for airliners, according […]

Chicago authorities are investigating what looks like a bullet hole in a window at an FAA building next to the tower at O’Hare International Airport. No one was hurt by the projectile, which investigators suspect may have come from a low caliber gun or pellet gun… At least seven airplanes and two helicopters were damaged […]

The Kestrel prototype is now flying in Bend, Ore., Flight International reported on Tuesday. There was no mention of Epic Aircraft, a one-time project collaborator. The single-engine turboprop will fly to Europe next month for further testing and promotion… Gulfstream will offer Synthetic Vision Systems on board its jets, the company announced at Farnborough… Columbia […]

So, there it is, then…AVweb‘s no-iPod-required audio news — index. If you want to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth, this is for you. Just click and listen, it will play right on your computer.AVweb‘s print coverage — Monday‘s, Wednesday‘s, and Friday‘s.The galleries … pages and pages worth, with a new page added today.

AVweb Audio News: You won’t hear it anywhere else. Let us know what you think. AVweb‘s Oshkosh Picture Galleries. The F-22 was here, yesterday. The F-22 was here, yesterday. So, we took pictures while enjoying a soundwave-induced full body massage. (Stealthy, perhaps. Quiet … no.) It stood motionless on its tail, climbed out vertically, fell […]

Podcasts: Tuesday’s file included Cessna’s Jack Pelton, Diamond’s Peter Mauer, EAA’s Tom Poberezny, and a trip to the Oshkosh tower. Watch this spot, Thursday, for more voices from the show. First flight — Garmin GPSMap496 review. Try before you buy. From Monday’s homepage — images of the Cessna LSA unveling. Also from Monday’s homepage updates, […]

Welcome to our pre-show AirVenture 2006 photo-gallery (images captured before the show officially began). Watch this spot Wednesday for more… Visit AVweb.com tomorrow for a podcast recorded on the grounds at Oshkosh… BellAgusta has begun ground testing of its second prototype tilt rotor aircraft at the consortium’s Italian facility in Carmeri. The first BA609C is […]

Controllers at the LA Center lost contact with airplanes for 15 minutes on Tuesday when a backup generator failed during a power outage. Power outages at LaGuardia caused American and Delta to cancel dozens of flights… A lightweight engine, the two-cylinder, four-stroke 60-hp HKS 700E, made in Japan, has met the ASTM consensus standard for […]

Remember the guy who got to 16,000 feet in a lawn chair with 400 helium balloons attached? Well, now Flight of the Lawnchair Man has been turned into a musical that, according to press notes, “reminds the world that dreams can come true if you believe in yourself.” (and place considerable faith in latex, aluminum […]