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You can tell a lot about a pilot by the pitot cover on his airplane. While there are many who go with the classic sleeve and the red REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT placard, there are those who — at least at airshows such as AirVenture — take the opportunity to get whimsical. Rubber ducks (sporting aviation […]

Pilots picket City Hall to get onerous ordinance repealed “Repeal the Everett Law” read one sign. Another stated “JAX City Council discriminates against aviation.” An airplane towing a banner with a similar message flew overhead — all efforts by members of the Experimental Aircraft Association to sway the City Council of Jacksonville, Fla., to repeal […]

Getting a T-shirt from a big show like AirVenture is cool enough for most kids, but 8-year-old Katherine Schwerman, from Genesee, Wis., took it to the next level. When the self-proclaimed aviation enthusiast went to the WASP exhibit, she got a lot more than she expected when she bought a shirt and some replica WASP […]

RotorWay International, the world’s oldest and largest kit helicopter manufacturer, debuted its next generation helicopter, the A600 Talon, at this summer’s AirVenture. The two-seat A600 Talon is slated to become the first helicopter to be certified by the Arizona-based company. “The A600 Talon is the first of a new generation of RotorWay machines,” said CEO […]

“This is the center of the universe. There’s nothing better than being at Oshkosh this week.” — Alan Klapmeier, co-founder of Cirrus Design, on AirVenture’s opening day “Don’t drop the airplane to fly the radio. An airplane flies because of Bernoulli, not Marconi.” — GAN contributing writer Mark Grady, who presented an Air Safety Foundation […]

What are the top 10 pilot mistakes? Ask any pilot or flight instructor and they’ll have their own lists. But what do air traffic controllers see as the biggest problems? Controllers laid out what they think are the top 10 mistakes at this year’s AirVenture in a Letterman-styled list: #10: Not Knowing Where You Are. […]

A lightsaber, the weapon made famous by Star Wars movies, will be taken into space aboard the next shuttle, slated for launch in October. The weapon, from the original 1977 Star Wars movie, is on loan from Lucas films. Since the beginning of the space program astronauts have taken trinkets into space. This is first […]

A family owned company is developing a emergency landing system for GA planes that uses three parachutes. The ASR TriChute Landing System features one parachute for the plane’s fuselage and a parachute for each wing. “The fact is, three parachutes are better than one,” explained Dario Manfredi, a finance executive who is the son of […]

The winning bid for an Eclipse 500, auctioned last month on eBay, topped $1.8 million. The winner is Morten Wagner of Denmark, who placed his winning bid of $1,833,945 at 2 a.m. his time on Aug. 11. The 35-year-old Internet entrepreneur took delivery of his jet earlier this month at Eclipse Aviation’s headquarters in Albuquerque. […]