By Paul Bertorelli, AVweb Editorial Director   Compared to Rotax and even Continental, Lycoming hasn’t had much of a presence in the light sport market. It does now. Lycoming announced this week that its O-233 four-cylinder engine is nearly ready for volume production and that a handful of airplanes are flying with it, including a [...]

FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt visited EAA AirVenture Thursday for a forum, apologizing for the agency’s reduced presence at the event this year due to reduced government funding, which he said is no way to run the FAA. He touched on avgas developments, user fees and more. AvWeb’s Mary Grady reports. To read Mary Grady’s entire [...]

TCM said more than a year ago that it wanted to get an aerodiesel into its product line and now it has one. The company bought diesel technology already developed from a European source and is forging ahead with its own program.

Kitplanes’ sister publication, Avweb, has posted a new video on Garmin’s touch-screen aera handheld GPS. The bulk of the flight testing was done aboard Kitplanes’ editor’s Glastar Sportsman. Avweb Editorial Director Paul Bertorelli reports on Garmin’s latest offering.

Here’s an over-the-transom report on the SeaRey LSA amphibian from Aviation Consumer’s Jeff Van West, who is having more fun than he deserves.

Gearing up for the Sun ‘n Fun extravaganza in Lakeland, Kitplanes editor Marc Cook and AVweb editorial director Paul Bertorelli are motoring around the west in Cook’s Glastar Sportsman visiting companies prior to the show. Here’s part 1 of their video blog report:

KITPLANES magazine interviews Advanced Flight Systems president, Robert Hickman, to learn about his company’s latest EFIS, engine monitor and angle of attack systems available for experimental aircraft.