Video of the Week

Few aircraft are instantly recognizable as NASA’s bulbous Super Guppy heavy transport. It has been on the job since the 1960s, transporting large aircraft and spacecraft components. It will be used to transport the heat shield for the Artemis Moon missions. AVweb took a quick look and shot this video.

Hypoxia doesn’t rank high as an accident cause, but it’s implicated often enough to cause the FAA to bring its portable hypoxia training to AirVenture. It’s the size of an office cubicle and uses mixed gases to simulate high altitude at sea-level pressure. AVweb’s Mark Phelps tried it out and filed this video report.

Kitfox Aircraft showed not one but two Experimentals powered by the new 160-hp Rotax 916 at AirVenture 2023. We caught up with Kitfox’s Brandon Petersen, whose own Kitfox has pride of place at the corner of the company booth. Builder of the “no-compromises” airplane, he describes the performance and capability of Kitfox’s newest model. For more information: www.kitfoxaircraft.com […]

Earlier this week, thousands of aircraft flew in to Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for AirVenture 2023. Mariano Rosales was onsite to check out some of the arrivals.

Introduced in 2021, Honeywell’s clean-sheet Anthem integrated flight deck has racked up over 120 hours of flight testing in a Pilatus PC-12 turboprop, and the test bed (with pre-production test hardware) was on public display for the first time at AirVenture 2023. Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano climbed aboard the Pilatus with company flight test […]

Whether it’s a flight school or private owner, today’s aircraft buyers demand modern interior styling, but it also has to be durable and maintenance friendly. That’s what Textron Aviation is trying to accomplish with completely redesigned interiors for its single-engine Cessna piston models. It was showing off a new interior in a 172 Skyhawk at […]

DeltaHawk received an FAA type certificate for its 180-HP DHK180 piston engine earlier this year. The four-cylinder, clean-sheet design was on display at AirVenture 2023 where AVweb’s Kate O’Connor took a look.

Dynon has gained some traction with its HDX line of certified EFIS products and at AirVenture 2023, it showed off a new addition to the line, the D30 backup EFIS. The D10A has, for years, been popular among homebuilders and owners of certified aircraft. The D30 builds on that success with a larger display and […]

At AirVenture 2023 in Oshkosh, Garmin announced its first aftermarket automatic throttle system, plus the first aftermarket Autoland system for a twin-engine aircraft. It brought an equipped King Air B200 to the show and Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano went flying with it for a demo with Garmin’s Jessica Koss and Will Johnson.

The King KX155 and KX165 navcomm radios are two of the most popular navcomm radios of all time and there are plenty of these aging rigs still in service begging for an easy upgrade. Honeywell showed up at AirVenture 2023 with a long-awaited replacement called the KX200. Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano took a look […]