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The 2011 edition of AirVenture Oshkosh was one for the ages. The weather was beautiful, the airplanes, and there were a lot of them, were spectacular, and the politics were, well, intriguing. The show got off on a very strange note when AirVenture Chairman Tom Poberezny called it quits by retiring at high noon by […]

The saga of hijacker D.B. Cooper, who parachuted out of a Northwest 727 in November of 1971 after getting $200,000 in ransom money never to be seen again, might be near an end. The famous outlaw’s real name is not known. In fact, D.B. Cooper was actually a misunderstanding of his alias, which was written […]

Two men were killed on Saturday when they made a forced landing in a replica Wright Model B Flyer in a rural Ohio field. The men were conducting a test flight in the replica, known as the “Silver Bird,” when they made a radio call from the air alerting authorities about their impending forced landing. […]

Lancair introduced an integrated, all-glass panel for its single-engine turboprop Evolution at AirVenture called EFC900X (Evolution Flight Control 900X), including Garmin’s GFC 7X autopilot. The GFC 7X is the first Garmin autopilot to be installed in an experimental airplane and is currently exclusive to the Evolution. “This is a huge vote of confidence from Garmin,” […]

Flight Design’s John Doman called the 2011 AirVenture “very successful” after dealers placed orders for 40 of the C4 airplanes, currently in the development process, and eight LSAs during the show. Some of these airplanes were sold to customers. Doman also said the company is strengthening its dealer network in the United States, which currently […]

Piper Aircraft Inc. is taking a mock-up of its PiperJet Altaire on the road, along with a message of the company’s commitment to the development of the single-engine very light jet. While the mock-up was on display at EAA AirVenture last week, Piper announced that the company has started fabrication of the Altaire’s first conforming […]

The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Red Tail Squadron introduced its Rise Above traveling exhibit at last week’s EAA AirVenture. For the next several months, the exhibit is set to travel around the country, visiting airshows, schools and youth organizations with the goal of inspiring children to reach for their goals – no matter how unobtainable […]

(August 2011) After the nearly miraculous** retrieval of the black boxes** from Air France Flight 447, the Airbus A330 that disappeared in the mid-Atlantic in May 2009 with 228 souls aboard, it quickly became apparent that the events that led to the crash, until then magnified by the lens of mystery — a monster storm? […]

The F-16 seen below was caught on amateur video as it overran the runway last week while landing at EAA AirVenture, America’s biggest airshow held annually in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The fighter’s nose gear collapsed and its nose cone broke apart upon impact. Emergency crew on site immediately responded to the incident. The exact circumstances of […]

The French authority responsible for investigating aircraft accidents, known as the BEA, just released a new report on the Air France 447 crash that occurred in the summer of 2009, killing all 228 people on board. An initial report issued by the agency in May stated the Airbus A330 stalled at high altitude after the […]