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Aviation insurance underwriter Avemco says it’s able to loosen its corporate tie and undo the top button of its shirt when it comes to some new types of airplanes. Executive Vice President Jim Lauerman said at EAA AirVenture that rates for Columbia, Cirrus and certain Diamond and homebuilt aircraft will be reduced, as will the […]

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., is asking those opposing user fees to time it right when expressing that opposition. In a session at the EAA’s members’ village on Saturday at AirVenture, the veteran pilot and politician indicated he has something up his sleeve that he’ll introduce when the Senate votes on its reauthorization bill.The Senate bill, […]

If you’ve never written the President, now’s a good time to start. That’s the message from House aviation subcommittee members as the FAA reauthorization bill moves through Capitol Hill. The subcommittee attended a somewhat sparsely attended public session at EAA AirVenture on Saturday, and Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., said that while user fees are big […]

In an effort to get kids back into aviation and thus help slow or even stop the declining pilot population, Alpha Tango Charlie at EAA AirVenture said it is offering a discount on its aviation trading cards for aviation education and learn-to-fly organizations. ‘Several EAA chapters offer them to Young Eagle kids to help reinforce […]

Eighty years ago, Claude Dornier introduced a small “flying boat,” and on Friday afternoon his grandson, Iren Dornier, revealed the Dornier Aircraft S-Ray amphibian light sport aircraft. The all-composite two-seater, which achieved first flight on July 14 in Germany, has a high wing with a forward-facing engine mounted on top. At present, the prototype is […]

copyright Larry Grace Click for a Larger Image In a press briefing Saturday afternoon, NTSB air safety inspector Jim Silliman said the Safety Board is still very much in the investigation stage of Friday afternoon’s accident involving two P-51 Mustangs participating in the showcase flights at EAA AirVenture. EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski said Gerald Beck, […]

The Two Weeks to Taxi program that was launched by Glasair a few years ago to help builders make progress on their kits has been spun off into a separate company. Mikael Via, who will be president of both companies, at EAA AirVenture said the two-week program will now be available for the Vans RV-10 […]

The guys from Boise, Idaho, who run AeroLEDs like to call themselves geeky engineers, but at EAA AirVenture this week they were showing off some marketing savvy, dunking their LED units in a fishbowl filled with water, dropping them repeatedly and shining them all night into the skies above Wittmann Field. Company cofounder Mike D’Amico […]

With customer deliveries of the A500 centerline twin under way, Adam Aircraft is working to enhance the features of the product. Upgrades include the addition of a Traffic Advisory System, certified in May, and XM weather and audio and CMAX Jeppesen charts are now available. Testing is completed for an enhanced ground-proximity warning system, engine […]

Clearwater, Fla.-based Pol-Air has been busy keeping EAA AirVenture attendees nice and cool with its “personal air chiller” for airplanes, which it introduced and is demonstrating at the airshow. “It’s not an air conditioner,” stressed Pol-Air President Jamie Blackstone, nor is it a whole aircraft cabin cooler. Instead, cooled air is piped through up to […]