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Discover the Thrill of a
Family Getaway
Discover that the best family vacation photos aren't taken through the
window of a minivan. In a brand-new Cessna Stationair, every
single weekend becomes your chance for a family getaway. Without ever
hearing the dreaded words "Are we there yet?" Call 1 (800)
4-CESSNA.
Or visit
CessnaYouAreHere.com. 
» Discover the thrill of Cessna Single-Engine for yourself
at booths 143-156 at EAA AirVenture
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WOMEN,
AIRPLANES, AND LOTS OF PINK SHIRTS!
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We hope you like hot pink! Thursday morning saw a record
gathering of female pilots on AeroShell Square here at EAA AirVenture.
The rendezvous reminded visitors to the show that aviation isn't just
for the boys' club and hopefully encouraged women of all ages and
backgrounds to pursue their interest in flying. Among the attendees were
celebrity pilots, renowned authors, acclaimed journalists and
photographers, and many recognizable movers and shakers in the industry.
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Fly With Bose® Aviation
Headset X™
Enjoy an unmatched combination of full-spectrum noise reduction, clearer
audio, and comfortable fit. Voted the #1 headset for the seventh
consecutive year in Professional Pilot's 2007 Headset Preference
Survey. Also rated "Best ANR Headset: The Aviation Consumer
Product of the Year" by Aviation Consumer.
Purchase by August 16, 2008 and receive a complimentary pair of Bose
in-ear headphones ($99.95 value).
Learn more and order. 
Quotes reprinted with permission: Professional
Pilot, 2007 Headset Preference Survey, 12/07; Aviation
Consumer, 8/07.
» Try out the Headset X™ and other Bose Corporation
products at booths 171-176 at EAA AirVenture
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WAGSTAFF
LATE-NIGHT RUNWAY INCIDENT UNDER REVIEW
World-renowned air
show performer Patty Wagstaff has confirmed to AVweb that "an
incident" involving her took place on a runway at Wittman Regional
Airport in Oshkosh late Thursday night and that police and security
officials are now reviewing the chain of events. "All I can say is that
I was in a place that I shouldn't have been and an incident took place,"
she told AVweb. She said that under the advice of legal counsel,
she can't comment further and that the circumstances of the incident are
"under review." More...
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Introducing AV8OR™ from
Bendix/King by Honeywell
The AV8OR is the portable and affordable GPS built specifically
for pilots, by a company that knows pilots. With navigation routing,
planning and weather information for the aircraft and the automobile,
the AV8OR uses aviation software and symbology you understand.
Its 4.3-inch touch screen is larger and easier to read than competing
GPS systems, with an intuitive interface derived from the
pilot-friendly, panel-mounted Bendix/King multi-function display
systems. Come see us in Hangar B to register to win an AV8OR.
For more information, go online. 
» Register to win a Bendix/King AV8OR by Honeywell at
booths 2081-2086 at EAA AirVenture
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JEPPESEN
OFFERS NEW VFR EYE CANDY
Hoping to attract the new crop of
light sport and other pilots to its products at an early stage in their
careers, Jeppesen this week at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008 announced a
new series of sectional-like charts. The new charts, dubbed "VFR+GPS" to
describe their optimization for use in a VFR environment supplemented by
GPS, are an attempt to reinvent the classic FAA sectional and are based
on the company's European charts, in use since 1995. The new charts
deploy what Jeppesen calls "state-of-the-art" technology in their design
and offer a much cleaner look with less symbology. The trade-off is
greater use of text to impart the same information. More...
LYCOMING'S
NEW LSA ENGINE
For light airframes, Lycoming's 100-horsepower
O-235 series has proven a durable choice and now the company is updating
it for the emerging LSA market with the new IO-233. The O-235 serves as
the basis for this new engine, but it has electronic ignition, a
throttle-body injector unit and redesigned induction plumbing, according
to Mike Kraft, Lycoming's chief engineer. The powerplant was also placed
on a diet and is 40 pounds lighter than the original O-235. For
durability, it also sports the roller tappets Lycoming has been
installing in most of its new engines. The rollers reduce cam wear and
spalling.
Related Content:
Mark
Kraft discusses the O-235 at length in an audio podcast interview
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The End of the Show? No ...
Just the Beginning
Today we head home with hours of video from AirVenture — all
featuring customers who've made the jump to Lightspeed. Tune into
our web site soon and listen to all these folks tell you in their own
words why they think Zulu is the better headset. We've known it
all along, but now we know we're preaching to a very large choir.
For more information, go online. 
» Try Lightspeed's Zulu and compare it to other
premium brands
at booths 2019-2020 & 2023 at EAA
AirVenture
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RECORD-SETTING
GATHERING OF WOMEN PILOTS
Anyone on Aeroshell Square at 10:30
a.m. on Thursday found their way blocked by a sea of pink-shirted women
that covered the concrete from the KC-135 Tanker to the Ford Trimotor to
the DC-3s. An estimated 1,000 women pilots turned up to be seen and
photographed in an effort to set a record as being the largest gathering
of women pilots in one place at one time. More...
SKYBIKE
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Among the latest ideas for roadable
aircraft is Sam Bousfield's Skybike, a three-wheeled two-seat motorcycle
that will convert itself, with the simple pull of a lever, into an
airplane. Beyond its slippery bullet-shaped design, the most
eye-catching piece of engineering on the vehicle will be its
patent-pending telescoping wing which retracts the lifting surfaces into
the fuselage aft of the cockpit. The stress-bearing fuselage will be
made from carbon fiber and will house the derated 120 hp motorcycle
engine (options being from Yamaha and Suzuki) neatly packed behind the
cockpit. More...
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LINDBERGH
FOUNDATION PARTNERS WITH PATTY WAGSTAFF TO SAVE AFRICAN
WILDLIFE
Patty Wagstaff's incredible flying exploits are
well-known to millions of fans, but less well-known is how Patty spends
her off-season -- for the last six years, she has spent the winter in
Africa, training park wardens in Kenya, so they can fly air patrols to
deter poachers. Under Patty's instruction, the accident rate of the
patrol pilots has declined by more than 50 percent, and elephant
populations have increased more than 25 percent. On Thursday, Lindbergh
Foundation President Knox Bridges announced that the foundation will
partner up with Patty as a fundraiser for that project. "The work Patty
is doing is in perfect harmony with the Foundation's mission of
balancing technology and the environment," Bridges said. "Anti-poaching
pilots need to fly low, slow, and with precision, and who better to
teach them those techniques than Patty Wagstaff." More...
WRISTWRITER
HANDY FOR PILOTS
OK, it looks even goofier than a kneeboard,
but it might be that much more handy. Jack Cribbs is a woodworker from
Plymouth, Mass., who needed a better way to write down measurements.
Realizing what he needed was a pad and pen attached to his wrist, he
went into his shop and put together WristWriter in about two hours. "I
almost didn't try it on," says Jack, "because it looked too goofy even
for me. But I decided to give it a week." It worked so well he has used
it ever since and started selling it at home shows. A pilot walked up to
him and said, "That's a pilot product." More...
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Announcing: First-Ever,
Zero-Down Factory Engine Financing!
Air Power, Inc. — the World's Largest Factory Engine
Distributor — announces an industry first: long-term,
low-interest, no-money-down financing on all Continental and
Lycoming Genuine Factory Engines: New, Remanufactured, and Overhauled,
always sold at just $300 over factory invoice. Offering 20-year 6.9%
simple interest Factory Engine Loans with no prepayment penalty and
payments as low as $129.79 for a Cessna Skyhawk Factory Engine. For
details, call Air Power at (888) 759-4295, or
go online to
FactoryEngines.com. 
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AVWEB'S
AIRVENTURE 2008 GALLERIES: DAY SEVEN
 Saturday is here, and while many
campers and weeklong attendees are beginning to pack up, the one-day
visitors have packed into EAA AirVenture, trying to see as much of the
show as possible. Oh, and we finally got out to the Seaplane
Base! More...
AVWEB
INSIDER BLOG: WHAT DOES AFFORDABLE FLYING MEAN TO
YOU?
Kitplanes writer Amy Laboda has been wandering
the grounds at Oshkosh all week, seeing display after display dedicated
to reassuring pilots and would-be aircraft owners that you can own a
plane as cheaply as you can a nice car. Why, she wonders on the AVweb
Insider blog, doesn't anyone count the back-end costs?
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Inflight. Every
Flight.
XM WX Satellite Weather has quickly become the leading way to fly
for pilots across the country. And now, with Aviator Pro, the
brand-new weather data package from XM WX, pilots have an even
better reason to fly with the datalink weather leader — inflight
and every flight. See the new suite of weather data at AirVenture 2008,
or
click here to learn more about XM
WX and Aviator Pro. 
» See why XM WX Satellite Weather is the official weather
provider
of EAA AirVenture when you visit WxWorx at booths
3030-3032
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Avidyne Delivers Worldwide
Datalink Graphical Weather and Two-Way Messaging
Avidyne's new MLX770 Iridium®-based two-way datalink
transceiver brings strategic datalink weather services to Entegra-
and EX500-equipped aircraft operating worldwide. The MLX770
allows pilots to more easily make go/no-go decisions on the ground and
fly more strategically while en route. Additionally, the MLX770
provides convenient two-way SMS text messaging from an airborne MFD to
any ground-based SMS-capable mobile phone or e-mail address, allowing
pilots to communicate in-flight.
Click here for more information. 
» See Avidyne's state-of-the-art technologies in action at
booths 2098-2101 (Combo E) at EAA AirVenture
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What You Don't Know About
Charts Can Hurt You — Or Worse
Instrument flying and aeronautical charts are inextricably
linked. From SIDs to IAPs, this interactive course will get you up to
speed on instrument charts and how to use them effectively in the
system. Covering everything from departure procedures to approach
plates, it's a comprehensive look at the world of IFR charts —
both NACO and Jeppesen.
Begin the IFR Insight Charts course
today!
» Look for the AOPA Air Safety Foundation at booths
164-166 at EAA AirVenture
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Visit ASO.com today! 
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THE AVWEBFLASH TEAM
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summary of the latest news, articles, products, features, and events
featured on AVweb, the
internet's aviation magazine and news service. The
AVwebFlash team is: Publisher
Timothy Cole Editorial Director,
Aviation Publications
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Bertorelli Editor-in-Chief
Russ Niles Contributing Editors
Mary Grady
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Pew Features Editor
Kevin
Lane-Cummings Webmaster
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Simmons Contributors
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Laboda
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