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“We had nearly perfect weather,” EAA Chairman Jack Pelton said in his closing news conference at AirVenture on Sunday, “and it really felt like we’re getting back to our culture — that’s what we’ve been striving for, these last three years.” On Tuesday, the show logged “the most aircraft arrivals ever,” with more than 3,000 […]

The new Perlan 2 glider joined the Airbus A350 XWB at EAA AirVenture this week. The pressurized, two-seat glider has been designed to fly up to 90,000 feet, at the edge of space, where it will explore the science of stratospheric mountain waves that affect the global climate. This will require the engineering of a […]

Ohio State University has received a gift of $10 million to support aviation education and research on campus, the school announced this week at EAA AirVenture. The gift from the Austin E. Knowlton Foundation will support construction of a new facility at Don Scott Field, with state-of-the-art flight simulators, research labs and classrooms. More than […]

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 […]