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Yuneec's E430 Electric Airplane Has Up to 2.5 Hours' Endurance The Yuneec E430 electric light sport airplane has made an appearance at EAA AirVenture, and is scheduled to fly for the crowd at least once before the end of the show this weekend... 7/30/2009 More Aircraft and People at This Year's AirVenture If airshow attendance were an overall economic indicator, then it might be time to start reloading the 401k. At the approximate halfway point of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh... 7/30/2009 Avidyne Offers Budget Versions of its New Avionics for Cirrus At the Avidyne press conference on Tuesday, company founder and CEO Dan Schwinn said that he hasn't heard any customers complain that the new Avidyne R9 lacked features—it is, in fact, loaded with new capabilities... 7/30/2009 Cirrus Updates Jet Program Status At EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Cirrus updated the status of its Vision jet program; as well as outlining a series of recent global partnerships. Cirrus co-founder Dale Klapmeier addressed... 7/28/2009 Garmin Announces Wave of New Products While much of the aviation industry remains in a holding pattern given the tough economic times, Garmin opened AirVenture with announcements of several new products and product enhancements... 7/28/2009 Lycoming's iE2 Single-Lever System Shown at Oshkosh Lycoming flew a Lancair Evolution to Oshkosh, powered by its new TEO-540-EXP iE2 engine. Advantages of the 350-hp engine include single-lever operation, automated preflight safety checks, automotive start simplicity and... 7/27/2009 Cessna SkyCatcher Achieves ASTM Certification On the first day of AirVenture Cessna announced that its 162 SkyCatcher LSA had achieved ASTM certification. It's equipped with a 100-hp Continental engine and the Garmin G300... 7/27/2009 Piper Updates PiperJet Status Piper made its first appearance at AirVenture under new ownership and under the stewardship of new CEO Kevin Gould and President John Becker. Now owned by Imprimis, Piper unveiled sweeping plans to expand... 7/27/2009 Continental Refines Its Piston Engines Continental announced at Oshkosh that is had earned certification for fadec control on its big turbocharged engines, and that it had completed testing and knows how to qualify all of its engine models to burn 94UL... 7/27/2009 Beech Adds X Factor to King Air 90 The new Beechcraft King Air C90GTx will have a higher maximum takeoff weight, and winglets to cut drag, so it will carry more payload farther and faster. And the "x" package can... 7/27/2009 Senate Votes in Favor of Joint Strike Fighter Over F-22 Raptor The F-22 Raptor will cease its production run at 187 units, with funding shifted to the multirole F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). While the Raptor is a more sophisticated... 7/25/2009 Senate's FAA Funding Bill is Good News/Bad News On the plus side, the bill introduced last week by the Senate Commerce Committee would fund the FAA for two years—with a budget of some $35 billion—and without user fees... 7/25/2009 On a Lighter Note from the FAA… The most recent issue of FAA Aviation News (available at the FAA Safety Center at EAA AirVenture) focuses on the Light Sport category. The official FAA publication... 7/25/2009 FAA Changes Stance on Disciplining Controllers New FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt has a fresh view on how to handle controllers responsible for "operational errors." These events are defined as... 7/24/2009 Could This Be the Year of the Electric Airplane? At last year's AirVenture, Randall Fishman hushed the crowds with his whisper-quiet single-seat ElectraFlyer-C. This year, he's doubled down on that bet with plans to bring a two-place version... 7/24/2009 PREV 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 NEXT |
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