For more than six months, Zenair has been delivering the popular 1150- and 1450-pound kits and factory assembled floats. The company is now offering a pre-drilled fastbuild float kit and welcoming aircraft dealers and maintenance shops to finish them for customers. Shipping assembled floats is expensive in crating but also in shipping costs. When customers [...]
American Legend Aircraft Company announced today that the company is offering a $2000 spending bonus on purchases of its Legend Cub certified Special Light Sport Aircraft. The bonus can be applied to the purchase of equipment options or for purchases made at the company online store. The spending bonus offer expires at the close of [...]
The 2010-2011 edition of the Aircraft Electronic Association Pilots Guide to Avionics will be available during AirVenture, Booth 2035/36 in Hangar B. This year also marks the debut of the Pilots Guide to Avionics web site, where visitors will find an avionics glossary, repair station directory by state and country, archives of past articles and [...]
Sandia Aerospace announced a new Mode C transponder with built-in encoder. The lightweight STX 165 has a one-half 3ATI front bezel and measures 7 inches depth behind the panel. The small size allows the STX 165 to be mounted outside of the center stack, making that space available for other avionics. In addition to displaying [...]
Miller Electric Mfg. Co. will offer hands-on demonstrations of its MIG and TIG welding and plasma-cutting equipment at the 2010 EAA AirVenture show, July 26 to August 1 at Booths 52 to 54. The Road Show Two, a 62-foot semi that features the latest welding power sources and systems, will function as a mobile center [...]
Sitting in front of your computer thinking how awesome it would be if you could at least get up in the air for a few minutes and fly around the patch at Oshkosh? We feel ya — and that’s why we strapped on some cameras for this bonus video, which gives you an aerial tour [...]
It’s Thursday at AirVenture and the weather is great so, with feet worn out through hiking the booths and flight lines, I took the bus out to the seaplane base. Out of the way, yes, but well worth the ride. Wandering around I spotted a very small aircraft that had drawn a few folks and [...]
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 [...]
