After 69 days and nearly 25,000 miles, Memphis businessman Wei Chen will be making his triumphant return home in just a few days after becoming the first Chinese citizen to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine plane, a TBM 700. Chen, CEO and founder of Sunshine Enterprises in Memphis, said he is extremely eager to […]
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#OSH11: GE Aviation completes certification testing on H80 engine
GE Aviation officials said at AirVenture that the company has completed all engine certification testing for its new H80 turboprop engines. “The H80 engine has performed extremely well in ground certification testing at GE’s Prague facility in the Czech Republic. GE Aviation has accumulated more than 800 ground test hours and more than 10,000 cycles […]
#OSH11: B&S hosts combat veteran at AirVenture booth
For a second straight year B& S Aircraft Parts & Accessories will offer a salute to wounded veterans at its exhibit at AirVenture. Marine Sergeant Jonathan Blank of Augusta, Kan., who was injured in October in Afghanistan, is the company’s guest during the week-long show. Sergeant Blank was injured in October 2010 in Helmand Province, […]
Chester’s Jeep takes off
It’s a grand day when your aircraft project rolls out of the hangar ready for its first flight. It’s an even bigger day when you fly your creation to AirVenture for the first time. Lon Dienst from Poplar Grove, Ill., sort of skipped the first flight phase because he was in such a hurry to […]
#OSH11: EAA’s Tom Poberezny retires
In a surprise announcement today at AirVenture, Tom Poberezny said he is retiring as chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and AirVenture Oshkosh. In a hastily called news conference under the historic Brown Arch in the heart of the AirVenture grounds, Poberezny said: “I am so proud of what we have been able to […]
Roy Clark’s airplane to be raffled
Wings of Hope, a global humanitarian charity headquartered in St. Louis, was presented with country music legend Roy Clark’s private plane, a four-seat Piper Tri-Pacer, to be raffled to help American children with major health issues get to life-saving treatment. Clark said he has spent hundreds of hours enjoying his plane and he hopes the […]
FAA halts more projects
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The FAA issued additional “stop work orders” over the last 24 hours to construction and technology contractors for critical modernization projects around the country after Congress failed to pass an FAA bill. The FAA halted dozens of major projects ranging from long-term runway safety initiatives to NextGen air traffic control research and […]
#OSH11: Flying cars invade iconic drive-in
A handful of flying cars invaded Ardy & Ed’s Drive-In, an Oshkosh institution since 1948, on the day before AirVenture kicked off. A story by EAA’s Mary Jones reports: “Under police escort, three Maverick flying cars and one Aerocar motored from EAA’s Kermit Weeks Hangar on 20th Street to Ardy & Ed’s on South Main […]
#OSH11: Second century of aircraft manufacturing
DAHER-SOCATA is commemorating its 100 years of continuous aircraft production with a series of activities at EAA AirVenture this week in Oshkosh. Stéphane Mayer, newly appointed President and CEO of DAHER-SOCATA, and member of the DAHER Group executive board, symbolically stopped the centennial countdown clock at the end of a news conference on opening day, […]