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Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and first officer Jeff Skiles drew a huge crowd to the Honda Forum Pavilion at AirVenture Oshkosh on Thursday afternoon — the audience filled every seat and spilled out dozens deep from both sides and the back, and even passing rain showers didn’t drive them away — and the crew was […]

This is GE Aviation’s second appearance at AirVenture Oshkosh and it’s only been one year since the company acquired Walter Aircraft Engines, but they’ve already hung their new soon-to-be-certified enhanced version of the robust Walter M601 on a soon to be certified production aircraft. That aircraft is Thrush Aircraft’s new 510-gallon, 10,500-pound gross weight, Thrush […]

Evergreen International’s newly certified B747 firefighting Supertanker can reach a fire at speeds near 600 mph, slow down, and then drop more than 20,000 gallons of payload on it – and the company hopes to put it to work in Alaska to do just that this week. This wildfire attack is a first for Evergreen, […]

Click for larger images Arriving with a fully restored and flying P-51C at AeroShell Square, Oshkosh, after the May 2005 fatal crash that killed program leader Don Hinz and destroyed the aircraft, may be nothing less than fully consistent with the Red Tail Project‘s mission of rising above and affecting positive change. The monumental restoration […]

Flight Design, GmbH, is developing from a standard Rotax 914 engine, an electric augmented powerplant that will produce an extra 40 hp for short (less than three minute) bursts of power. The company has “specifically developed for this task” an electric motor that is coupled to the prop hub through a belt drive. The goal […]

copyright Aaron Lurth Tom Poberezny and Craig Fuller give a thumbs up acknowledging the Memorandum of Understanding signed by both organizational leaders. (click for larger version) The leaders of EAA and AOPA — Tom Poberezny and Craig Fuller — met on Aeroshell Square at Oshkosh on Wednesday morning, under the nose of the huge A380, […]

The afternoon airshows at AirVenture Oshkosh are one of the event’s annual highlights, with the world’s greatest aerial performers — but Sean Tucker, whose red Oracle biplane is an annual highlight of that show, has so far been missing. “I will be there on Thursday,” he told AVweb on the phone from Milwaukee, where he […]

The last year has been a tough one for GA, but Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, said at AirVenture Oshkosh on Wednesday that most of the LSA manufacturers have been weathering the storm. “Our sales numbers are down about 25 percent compared to a year ago, but the GAMA numbers [reported […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to view the videos at the Pacific Aerospace site. The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-powered PAC-750XL plane designed primarily to haul and dump 16 skydivers is now the P-750 XSTOL and it’s being marketed by Pacific Aerospace Limited […]

Just when you might have thought that engineers were running out of wonder boxes to put in light aircraft comes word from Hawker Beechcraft and Rockwell Collins that they’ve flown a fly-by-wire Bonanza A36 with an autoland system. Rockwell Collins spokesman David Vos called it a “digital parachute.” The Bonanza did a series of hands-off […]