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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 […]

An Osprey V-22 en route to England’s Farnborough Airshow made a precautionary landing in Iceland after experiencing compressor stalls in an engine… Former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has joined Hill & Knowlton, a global communications consultant firm, as vice president. Mineta will be based in Washington, D.C…. When a DC-9 and an Airbus collided on […]

Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert resigned on Sunday. The shakeup results from A380 delays and a stock dive… Forward Vision has reduced its price to just under $10K for GA users of its infrared night-vision system… Michael Fanfalone, 57, one of the founders of the Professional Airways Systems Specialists union, died June 27 in Baltimore… Comp […]

The Organization of Black Airline Pilots is sponsoring about 30 summer camps across the U.S. for teens interested in flying careers. Currently only about 1 percent of pilots are black… The University of North Dakota is proposing a sophisticated radar system in a future military test area that will allow general aviation and unmanned aerial […]

The pilot was killed Tuesday morning when a BD-5J microjet crashed near Ocean City, Md., while flying in military radar tests. Another BD-5J pilot died in a crash two weeks ago in Ottawa… The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in North Carolina in 2004, killing a sheriff on board, has been charged with involuntary […]

Pensions: Delta Air Lines has given formal notice that it intends to wind up its pilots’ pension program as part of its plan to emerge from bankruptcy. The pilots have swallowed the bitter pill without protest, acknowledging the unsustainable pension plan is threatening the airline as a whole… Alaska air traffic controllers say FAA Administrator […]