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One of the longest in-development flying car projects, the Samson Switchblade, is still at it and as the company nears flight test, it was showing its new hybrid dash panel at  AirVenture this week. The panel combines data necessary for both flight and driving modes. The Switchblade first showed in mock-up in 2009 and has […]

The uAvionix booths at this year’s Airventure were packed layers deep with last-minute ADS-B buyers, while the 2020 mandate is T-minus 28 weeks. But high on the list of ADS-B equipage concerns is the developing ADS-B space-based Aireon tech in Canada (and the U.S. aircraft that will fly there), which looks to require diversity systems, […]

President and CEO of Women in Aviation International (WAI) Dr. Peggy Chabrian announced at AirVenture 2019 that she will be retiring from the position as of April 2020. Chabrian has served as president of WAI since its formal establishment as a non-profit organization in 1994. She also launched the annual WAI conferences, the first of […]

A Cessna 172 will be the centerpiece of the National Air and Space Museum’s  refurbished “How Things Fly” exhibit at its main facility in downtown Washington, D.C. Textron donated $10 million to the museum and the exhibit will officially be known as the “Textron How Things Fly Gallery.” It’s located in the east end of […]

Boeing signed an agreement with Tecnam at AirVenture 2019 to be the sole provider of aftermarket spare parts and distribution services for the Tecnam P2012 Traveller. The announcement comes as the first Traveller deliveries are getting underway, with Cape Air, the U.S launch customer for the P2012, officially accepting its first two P2012s last week. […]

Boeing has told shareholders its 777X likely won’t fly by the end of the year as planned because of issues with the GE9X engine. However it isn’t adjusting its late 2020 delivery projections for the aircraft and the first revenue airplane for Lufthansa is off the assembly line. The GE9X is the largest and most […]

French inventor Franky Zapata says his flyboard used in an attempt to cross the English Channel on Thursday worked perfectly but he’s going to get a bigger boat for the next attempt. The former competitive jet ski champion was trying to cover the 30-mile stretch of water on the 110th anniversary of Louis Bleriot’s first […]

A pilot for the French air force’s Patrouille de France demo team is safe after his aircraft went down near Perpignan-Rivesaltes Airport in the south of France on Thursday. The aircraft was one of nine flying a practice routine ahead of an airshow at the airport when something went wrong with the No. 2 Alphajet. […]

Seven years ago, AirVenture was occasionally stormy and the crowds seemed less dense than some years. Then-Acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta took questions from the audience at his first open forum at AirVenture (his nomination for the top job at the FAA was just coming up before the Senate). EAA launched Eagle Flights, a spinoff […]

Following what some veterans called an air traffic fiasco for last year’s AirVenture, this year’s arrival stream, even though tanked by weather, appears to have been more orderly. An AVweb canvas of campers in the North 40 found some damp tent dwellers, but everyone we spoke to gave EAA and the FAA thumbs up for […]