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It’s like the tattooed biker my Mom always warnedme to avoid. “It’s for your own good,” she would say. “Something like that will only bring you grief.” MaybeDelmar Benjamin’s mother never told him to stay away from thingsthat would hurt him. Or, maybe she did and he just wasn’t listening. Benjamin is a lanky blond […]

This air show and aviation get-together is in someways like a wonderful meal. Every wonderful meal starts with extensivepreparation and that’s exactly what has occurred at Oshkosh 98with the forums and hands on workshops. They are a smorgasbordfor those hungry for a safer, better, and more pleasant flyingexperience. For appetizers there are the “How to” […]

One of the exciting things about the EAAAirVenture Oshkosh is meeting some of the old timers of experimental aviation such as KenFlaglor. Flaglor, now 72, holds “court” at the communications building atWittman Regional Airport during the flying and has done so at all the EAA conventionsexcept two, the very first and the convention in Milwaukee […]

Picture yourself at the skinny end of a funnel. You have to decide how much of what went in the fat end gets tocome out the skinny end, and in what order. Now imagine that airplanesare what went in the other end. All kinds of airplanes. From cabinclass twins to tiny single-seat experimentals. Controllers havenightmares […]

DailyPrize Drawing The AVweb sponsors have teamed up to donate a bunch of neat prizes for us togive away during OSH 98! Every day we will be drawing a lucky winner to receive oneof the prizes listed below. Just drop by the AVweb booth and fill out an entry form.It’s that easy! Every day at […]

Listen to a RealAudiofeed of today’s 4:00 welcoming ceremonies at the West Ramp. “Delta wing with the long nose on the downwind, rockyour wings”. Captain Max Robinson and his crew landed a British Airways supersonicConcorde at AirVenture Oshkosh at 1224 Friday. They were about an hour later than theirscheduled arrival because of delays leaving JFK. […]

Cirrus Design of Duluth, MN announced today at Oshkoshthat they have completed the FAA-required airframe parachute deploymenttests. These tests have proven to the FAA that the airplane iscapable of being dropped safely to the earth at about 26 fps fromlow speeds, high speeds and even spins. The unique parachute recoverysystem, developed for Cirrus by BRS […]

CessnaVice Chairman Gary Hay seemed upbeat Friday morning as he told a gathering of journalistsat EAA Headquarters that business is very good, and that the growing demand for generalaviation airplanes seems to be benefiting Cessna more than others. Part of this is due toCessna’s return to building single-engine piston airplanes. With all five announcedsingle-engine models […]

Bose Corporation of Framingham, MA, inventors ofnoise reduction headset technology that set the industry standard,today announced the introduction of a revolutionary new headsetwith holes. That’s right, holes. Called the Headset X, it incorporates”Tri Port Technology” which includes three holes ineach ear cup. These holes seem at first to be an illogical approachto designing headsets for […]

NOTE: AVweb contains a RealAudio clip of the Bainbridge/Garvey exchange at EAA’s “Meet The Boss” session. One of the most emotional moments in the “Meet theChief” session came from B & C Specialty Products, Inc., President BillBainbridge. Bainbridge was trembling visibly as he asked FAA Administrator Jane Garvey whyan agency that claims to work “with” […]