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The scariest moment — so far — for round-the-world flyer Matevz Lenarcic was when he looked out from the cockpit of his little Pipistrel Sinus motorglider to see a pair of Russian MiGs. “The communications are not so good in Russia,” he told AVweb at Oshkosh on Saturday, in a bit of polite understatement. Despite […]
Gippsland Aeronautics officials are seriously considering shifting some of the manufacturing on their Oz-built GA8 Airvan to the U.S. Right now the company is spending $20 — $30 thousand dollars to ship the “virtually 100% American parts” to Australia where they are put together, then take the plane apart, containerize it and send it back […]
The Avidyne FlightMax Entegra Integrated Flight Deck, a system that comes chock full of workload-reducing items will now be available to you and your new Piper. The new glass cockpit is an option in the entire PA-28 line, which includes the Warrior, Archer and Arrow, making cockpits in the smaller birds as advanced as those […]
“We have already taken more orders this year than we sold last year,” Mooney Airplane Company (MAC) Managing Director Tom Gray told the media. For those who don’t make it to OSH but are still interested in a Mooney, the new Garmin G1000 panel and a list of comfort and performance upgrades will be available […]
Narco is high on a new digital transponder that they say is better and cheaper than a popular manual unit sold by a major competitor named after royalty. Narco’s new AT165 Transponder was TSOed by the FAA just last week. It all happened so fast that the company had no time to issue a press […]
Bruce Bohannon figures he missed setting an altitude record by about three feet on Saturday … that’s how much the tall Texan plans to add to the wingspan of his already highly modified RV-4 to take another crack at the absolute altitude record for piston aircraft, likely in October. Bohannon coaxed the Flyin’ Tiger to […]
Aw, it’s probably nothing. But, then again, it must be something. Unarmed Civil Air Patrol (yes, CAP) sentries sprouted around the control tower at Wittman Regional Airport Sunday in response to some kind of increased security posture at EAA AirVenture. EAA media relations man, Dick Knapinski later told reporters a threat of some kind had […]
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