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Zenair is now offering a two-week factory-assist program for its CH 750 Cruzer kit aircraft, the company announced this week at EAA AirVenture. Participants in the program will work at the Zenair factory in Ontario, Canada, and by the end of the two weeks, they’ll have partially completed the airframe; attached the wings and tail; […]

The pretty little white ultralight over in the Fun Fly Zone at EAA AirVenture is not meant to be a replica of any particular design by the early aviation pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont — it’s what its builders imagined he might have built next, if he hadn’t given up flying after an accident in 1910. […]

EAA leadership was fuming at AirVenture on Saturday morning, as they dealt with a last-minute, unexpected letter from the Air Line Pilots Association sent to members of Congress, opposing the Pilots’ Bill of Rights 2 now under consideration — with a vote in the Senate expected as soon as Tuesday. ALPA cited concerns over safety […]

The SpaceX rocket that exploded after launch on June 28 likely broke a strut, releasing a helium bottle in an oxygen tank that shot out the top, the company said this week. SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the Dragon rocket didn’t have the software to deploy a parachute that could have saved it and the […]

It’s not EAA AirVenture without a flying car or two, and this year’s new design — which the company says is not strictly a flying car, but a roadable aircraft — is on display just off the main drag, near the Innovation Center. Commuter Craft, based in Georgia, is displaying a prototype of a three-surface […]

The Lisa Akoya amphibian is continuing flight test at home in France, CEO Benoit Senallart told AVweb at EAA AirVenture on Friday, with the aim of achieving LSA certification in early 2017. The tests are meeting expectations, Senallart said. “We’re doing a lot of water-taxi testing, on smooth and rough water,” he said. “The seafoil […]

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta says he doesn’t agree the FAA is acting illegally in its labor dealings with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. Huerta was responding to allegations leveled by his former director of labor and employee relations that the agency knows it is illegally funding some parts of NATCA’s union operations. As we […]

The two-seat electric-powered airplane now in development by the Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. will have a flight duration up to three hours, CEO George Bye said at EAA AirVenture this week. The airplane will be certified under Part 21, the FAA’s rules for primary aircraft, which are limited to VFR flying (day and night) and […]

AOPA says it’s endorsing an amendment to a highway bill that will include measures to relax third-class medical requirements for private pilots. The language mirrors that of the Pilot’s Bill of Rights 2 but has been proposed as an amendment to the Senate highway bill now before the chamber. It was put forth by Sen. […]

A gift of $30 million from the Boeing Company and Mr. and Mrs. William E. Boeing Jr. to the Museum of Flight, in Seattle, is “unprecedented,” the museum announced this week. The money will fund the Boeing Academy for STEM Learning, comprising a variety of programs to promote education in science, technology, engineering and math. […]