On July 31, in AeroShell Square, during the 2008 EAA AirVenture show, Acting FAA Administrator Bobby Sturgell allowed EAA President Tom Poberezny to award the 30,000th Experimental aircraft airworthiness certificate to Robert Noll and his daughter Katrina, of Yuma, Arizona, who have built an RV-9A together. In fact, the RV-9A was one of several aircraft [...]
In the Continental tent, back behind the vinyl wall separating the unwashed masses from the journalistic elite—that’s a joke; we were just as hot and smelly—Teledyne Continental Motors’ new CEO Rhett Ross gave a brief update of the company’s recent past and a look ahead. In the last nine months, Ross has overseen a comprehensive [...]
Standing tall at 141 feet above Wittman Field is AirVenture’s newest and tallest, and most useful structure, a new air traffic control tower, and no one could be more proud of it than Wanda Adelman, air traffic manager for the Lake District, which includes Wisconsin and parts of Illinois and Indiana. Adelman volunteered for years [...]
Lightspeed Aviation announced its newest iteration of the Zulu ANR headset—the Zulu:P. Running from panel power instead of two AA batteries, the Zulu:P uses the same six-pin LEMO connector as the Bose X. The elimination of the battery compartment lightens the headset a little from its original 13 ounces and keeps the “my batteries just [...]
Lightspeed Aviation’s upgrade and trade-up options are midway through their 2008 rollout. Option A is a direct rebate program that allows you to upgrade your existing Lightspeed headset for a new Zulu for varying percentages of your original investment. The 30/3G and 20/3G trade-up program offer, with a cost to you of $350 and $450, [...]
EAA’s AirVenture 2008 offers much to all who are interested in aviation; however, after a few days of wandering the grounds, I began to get a sense of what might be missing, and it is significant. Although EAA has made a laudable effort during these financially challenging times to demonstrate that the point of entry [...]
Powerplant Developments Chief Executive Officer Tim T. Archer spoke at a press conference July 30 at AirVenture and revealed some tantalizing details about the company’s unique three-cylinder, six opposed piston, lightweight (156 pounds dry) diesel engine, which is under development for the general aviation market. Archer admitted that the engine’s designer is Michael Daniels, who [...]
I was walking among the thousands of airplanes at Oshkosh this week and noticed a subtle, but significant transformation; that square tip on the end of the prop of yore is giving way to a more scimitar looking device. Where a few years ago there were a few to be seen, now they are the [...]
