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For those in the market for the ultimate lightweight comfortable tried and true technology (it uses wires) headset, LightSPEED Aviation is offering up to 40dB of hearing protection in a unit roughly the size of a cell phone headset. Appropriately, the design includes inputs for cell phones and music devices, cast in a magnesium alloy […]

Diamond Aircraft has announced that it’s fuel-sipping, Thielert Diesel-powered DA42 TwinStar has been certified by the FAA. The type certificate will be presented by the FAA’s Director of Aircraft Certification Services, John Hickey, at a ceremony at EAA AirVenture on Thursday. The plane has been certified in Europe for almost a year and 35 have […]

For most student pilots, the introduction to aviation is often a highly personal, humbling and even slightly intimidating (if exhilarating) experience. Well, Rick Roberson quite literally didn’t know what he was getting himself into when he signed up for a $49 introductory lesson through the Be A Pilot program at a school in upstate New […]

If you have an aging GPS, and a friend on the grounds at OSH, you may soon be thinking of express mailing option. With bubbles of excitement frothing over the color-screened, terrain aware, weather-displaying, satellite music playing Garmin 396 handheld wonderbox, Lowrance has made an offer — limited in time to the duration of AirVenture […]

Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin were lost to this world July 10, but at AirVenture the two men are this week held close at heart. Just last year at AirVenture, the men and their X-Team left all onlookers wide-eyed with the Masters Of Disaster display — if you were on the grounds last year, you […]

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AVmail: July 24, 2005Reader mail this week about Wings to Adventure and revoked medical certificates, and a lot about NATCA vs. FAA.

REVIEWS Garmin GPSMAP 396Navigation, weather and entertainment, all in a portable package. Here are some brief impressions of this impressive product that may be in short supply at Oshkosh. ____________NEWS FEATURES Inside the Chart FactoryAnyone who has used a set of Jeppesen charts has probably been annoyed at the time and effort needed to file […]

Going up in an airplane could mean something completely different for owners at Albert Whitted Airport in St. Petersburg, Fla., if a local architect has anything to say about it. Steve Lange is proposing a $16 million hurricane-proof, multistory hangar for aircraft. But don’t worry about taxiing your airplane around a series of ramps to […]