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Terrafugia CEO Carl Dietrich says his Transition flying car — which he prefers to call a “roadable aircraft” — will fly by the end of this year, and customer deliveries will start by the end of 2009. Dietrich brought his proof-of-concept prototype to EAA AirVenture this week, and says it will be certified as a […]

It’s fair to say that Avidyne launched the glass cockpit revolution for light aircraft with its groundbreaking Entegra, which quickly became standard equipment in the Cirrus line. At AirVenture this week, Avidyne announced a new expansion of its glass product suite intended specifically for the aftermarket. The latest major glass product is the PFD4000, an […]

WhiteKnightTwo, the huge double-hulled aircraft that will carry SpaceShipTwo and its cargo of space tourists to 50,0000 feet, rolled out to the public for the first time Monday morning at Scaled Composites in Mojave (click here for AVweb‘s exclusive on-scene video, live today). Shortly afterward, Will Whitehorn, CEO of Virgin Galactic, spoke with reporters at […]

Cirrus Design confirmed that the public unveiling of its Vision SJ50 jet will take place at EAA AirVenture on Wednesday at about 2:15. The aircraft first flew July 3 and has been undergoing initial flight testing in Duluth. The company had hoped to bring the aircraft to Oshkosh but CEO Alan Klapmeier said it would […]

The enigmatic founder and long-time CEO of Eclipse Aviation, Vern Raburn, has stepped down and will be replaced by Roel Pieper, the chairman of the board of directors and president of ETIRC, a European company that poured more than $100 million into struggling Eclipse earlier this year. In a brief statement at a news conference […]

Fun and frolic were the order of the day during our first outing to the AirVenture grounds this year. Come along for a few sights. (No need for a jacket – the weather’s perfect!) CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW B-24 Liberator Ford’s Mechanical Bull Foreigner Stage Carbon […]

Honeywell/Bendix/King has proven that it has a legion of loyal customers, many of whom have been waiting for the company’s glass panel product. Bendix/King says the wait is over, or nearly so. This week at AirVenture, it announced that it will begin accepting orders for the new Apex Edge series aftermarket EFIS system in October. […]

At this year’s AirVenture, Lycoming has blown the doors off the notion that engine manufacturers aren’t capable of fresh thinking and innovation. Lycoming revealed Monday that it’s about to certify a new closed-loop FADEC system for its large displacement engine line, the O-540 series. The new system is called the IE-2 and it will eventually […]

Flight Design USA, makers of one of the most popular Light Sport Aircraft designs in the U.S., unveiled a new all-metal model at EAA AirVenture on Monday. The Flight Design MC — for Metal Concept — is essentially the same as the Flight Design CT-LS but is constructed mainly of metal, and is aimed to […]

Pilots can never have too much in-flight weather information, and to help fill that infinite need, XM Satellite Radio on Monday said it is releasing a new real-time weather package called Aviator Pro, from XM WX Satellite Weather. Although designed for the professional aviator, the product aims to serve all pilots, the company said. “This […]