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EAA AirVenture 2009 Panoramic Photos: North 40

The “North 40” is on the north end of the airport and surrounds the crosswind runway 9-27. It serves as the general parking lot for aircraft just flying in for the day, and also as a campground for pilots that want to camp out next to their airplane. Don’t see the panorama viewer? Click the […]

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Fishman Plans Electric Two-Seater Flight Soon

Over a year ago, Randle Fishman moved electric flight in a small airplane from paper to reality when he equipped a single-engine Moni motorglider with an electric engine and lithium-polymer batteries and took flight. This year he brought his almost-complete ElectraFlyer X to Oshkosh. This two-seat, electric-powered aircraft features side-by-side seating for two and is […]

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Mutt Muffs Protect Dogs From Cockpit Noise

When it’s time to go flying, Michelle McGuire has a reluctant husband but a willing and happy black Lab. Cockpit noise is even worse for dogs’ ears than for ours, and McGuire felt she had to do something to protect her pooch’s hearing. After searching in vain for a solution and failing to come up […]

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EAA To Expand Co-operation With Aero Friedrichshafen

EAA President Tom Poberezny said on Thursday at AirVenture that EAA will expand its collaboration with Aero Friedrichshafen, the biggest GA air show in Europe. “So far, our collaborative efforts have functioned superbly,” said Thomas Grunewald, project director of Aero. “We want to keep working together as partners to meet the challenges that lie ahead […]

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Martin Jetpack Progressing

Previous Martin Jetpack Videos At last year’s AirVenture, a start-up company from New Zealand created the biggest buzz of the show with an unlikely contraption called the Martin Jetpack. The fallout from Glenn Martin’s Oshkosh appearance has spawned a new corporate structure, plans for a factory and technical advances that Martin says could eventually create […]

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FAA Forum: Babbitt Meets Oshkosh; Paul Poberezny Honored

FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, who was just confirmed to the post in May, got a warm welcome Thursday morning on his first visit to AirVenture Oshkosh, where he gave a short talk and took questions from the audience in the Honda Forum Pavilion on Thursday morning. But before getting started, Babbitt honored EAA founder Paul […]

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EAA AirVenture 2009 Galleries: Day Four

We were wondered where AVweb intern Adam Cutler disappeared to yesterday. Apparently he got some time aboard the A380 and worked his way down to the seaplane base. Meanwhile, contributing photographer Mariano Rosales has been snapping photos like crazy and creating some amazing panoramic photos we’ll be sharing with you in upcoming galleries. (Scroll to […]

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