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Of all the warbirds that appear every year at AirVenture, a perennial favorite is the North American P-51 Mustang, examples of which arrive at OSH in the dozens each July. But that’s a pale shadow of a gathering of P-51s planned for September 2007 at Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. “Gathering of Mustangs and […]

Some of you who went out to catch a movie over the weekend may have noticed that a distinctive GA airplane made its Hollywood debut in “Miami Vice.” An Adam A500 flew to Florida and the Dominican Republic — the first international flight for an Adam aircraft – and took part in the filming of […]

Prowling the grounds at AirVenture, we couldn’t help but notice that Frank Thielert, the Germany-based entrepreneur responsible for the engines in Diamond’s brisk-selling aerodiesel-powered Star and Twin Star, was in intense discussions with Cessna officials. Is a Thielert diesel about to find its way into a new Cessna? Cessna CEO Jack Pelton said earlier this […]

General Electric, which has partnered with Honda to squire the engine through the FAA certification maze, says Honda did things differently when it developed its engines. In GE’s large fanjets, such as the giant GE90-115B found in the Boeing 777, TBOs of 20,000 to 30,000 hours are common, with 5000 hours “on wing” not unusual. […]

Builders of experimental aircraft will be paying close attention in the coming months as the FAA begins its review of the rules that govern amateur-built airplanes. EAA’s Joe Norris said a lot of issues have arisen with various aspects of the 51-percent rule, which was crafted back in the 1950s. A lot has changed since […]

Cessna was not the only big player to bring a new “proof-of-concept LSA” to this year’s show. Van’s Aircraft, which has sold thousands of kit airplanes (and has thousands flying), brought out its RV-12, a work in progress that it expects to fly later this year. It has two side-by-side seats, an all-metal airframe, and […]

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Click here to download. Garmin talks shop about its latest leading-edge glass – and Chelton responds. A Swedish group tells how they took Diamond’s DA42 across the Pacific and will continue around the world. Cirrus’s Alan Klapmeier talks about his company’s program that leaves buyers with a new airplane plus a CFII (for a year). […]

With so many Tablet PC and Pocket PC navigators available, where do you even begin? A good place might be to leave the regular Oshkosh product hangars and go out to the flymarket looking for Mercury Computing’s VistaNav booth. VistaNav’s 3D synthetic vision recreates the view out the front of the airplane, complete with terrain, […]