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Women Pilots Expand Their AirVenture Presence

photo by Mary Grady The 2008 WomenVenture gathering featured pink shirts, whereas this year’s featured blue ones. If you want to get a bunch of pilots together, there aren’t many better places to do that than AirVenture at Oshkosh, and this week women aviators worked hard to make the most of that opportunity. On Friday […]

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EAA AirVenture 2009 Galleries: Day Six

For us, EAA AirVenture is beginning to wind down – but for many attendees who are just now arriving for the weekend, the fun has only begun. Intern Adam is on his way home today, but he did manage squeeze out a few more photos before hitting the road. (Watch for his final batch of […]

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Another Yuneec Product – The Electric Paraglider

Along with various electric-powered aircraft that were on display at AirVenture Oshkosh this week, down on the Ultralight flight line, Yuneec was displaying a sporty “electric paramotor” called the E-Pac, for the first time in the U.S. The motor/propeller system is designed to be worn like a backpack by a pilot — or just about […]

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Cirrus Says More Jet Talks Possible

Cirrus Aircraft CEO Brent Wouters opened the door to future negotiations with former CEO Alan Klapmeier to buy the VisionJet program. Wouters said Klapmeier’s decision to suspend talks “doesn’t mean our conversations are over with Alan” but added that he also wasn’t sure why Klapmeier made that decision. He said there had been numerous discussions […]

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EAA Previews New, Less Controversial, “51% Rule” Changes

The FAA’s proposed changes to the so-called “51-Percent Rule” drew just about universal opposition from the kit aircraft industry and homebuilders over the last year or two, but on Friday at AirVenture Oshkosh, the EAA’s Earl Lawrence outlined the latest overhaul of that proposal, and it got a warm welcome from the forum audience. Past […]

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Klapmeier Jet Deal Collapses

Cirrus Design founder Alan Klapmeier said Friday that negotiations with Cirrus Aircraft over his proposed purchase of the VisionJet program have collapsed and, at this point, there is little likelihood of them resuming. Klapmeier told AVweb there were a number of sticking points in the negotiations, including price, that couldn’t be settled. “It appears that […]

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Vampire LSA Debuts At Oshkosh

Click for video of the Vampire in our series of “Product Minutes” from AirVenture “The idea was to be elegantly simple,” Sadler Aircraft Co. co-owner David Littlejohn told AVweb this week at AirVenture Oshkosh, as he talked about the neat folding-wing design on the company’s new Vampire LSA. “You just remove the bolts, fold once, […]

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Able Flight Pilots Get Their Wings

Able Flight, the nonprofit group that provides flight-training scholarships for people with physical disabilities, honored their three latest scholarship winners in a ceremony at Aeroshell Square at AirVenture Oshkosh on Tuesday morning. “These wings are symbolic of their dedication and will power,” said Able Flight executive director Charles Stites. The honorees, all of whom have […]

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EAA AirVenture 2009 Galleries: Day Five

It’s our fifth day at EAA AirVenture 2009 and the fourth day of the show. Yes, we’re recovered our ability to tell which day is which, and even though we’re still a little bleary-eyed and maybe just a tad bit unkempt, we’re having more fun than airplane people should be allowed. Join our AirVenture intern […]

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EAA AirVenture 2009 Galleries: Our Day at the Seaplane Base (2 of 3)

On Thursday, we sent Aviation Safety editor-in-chief Jeb Burnside out to the Seaplane Base at EAA AirVenture. In exchange for his freedom, we demanded pictures – and Jeb brought back three galleries’ worth of awesome snapshots. This is the second of these galleries. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW […]

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