HondaJet makes debut at Oshkosh

Honda's first jet made a fly-by at AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin Thursday, making its world debut before being left on static display.

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NASA grounds shuttle fleet

NASA has grounded the space shuttle fleet, mere days after the launch of Discovery, due to concerns over possible damage to the orbiter by falling debris during launch.

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Branson and Rutan announce space partnership

Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Airlines fame and Burt Rutan, designer of X-Prize winner SpaceShipOne, made a major partnership announcement yesterday at AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The new venture, simply called The SpaceShip Company, intends to build a large fleet of spaceships for private travel.

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If you made it to AirVenture this year, please email us or post a comment about your visit there.

Oshkosh AirVenture opens Monday

EAA's AirVenture 2005, the world's largest airshow, runs tomorrow through July 31 at Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The show features everything from SpaceShip One to World War II-era bombers.

Here's a report I wrote a few years ago about my visit to the Oshkosh fly-in.

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Links directory

The links directory was broken most of Thursday, but we got it fixed. We had to temporarily make a small file name change, so if you follow a link from a search engine over the past couple days, it probably didn't work.

Friday morning we got the directory working with the old file names.

We have NOT removed any links from the directory that were there earlier this week. If you're looking for yours, go to the top of the directory and click through to your category.

If you find any broken links on the site, please let us know.

We're moving

I'm in the process of moving the site to a server with more capacity. I'll try to do it in a way that is invisible to you, but you never know with these things. It's possible that the site may be unavailable for part of the next few days.

Two pilots killed in Canadian air show

Bobby Younkin and Jimmy Franklin, two of the most respected and best-loved pilots on the air show circuit died as a result of a fiery mid air collision at the Saskatchewan Centennial Air Show in Moose Jaw, Canada on Sunday.

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Model airplanes for cell phone users?

Once a kid's backyard toy and now a soldier's battlefield tool, the model airplane may soon expand to new terrain and a less expected set of people: cell phone users.

A California company is testing a pilotless plane that can fly 12 miles high for a week straight with an antenna to beam cell phone and Internet signals places they can't go now or, to the frustration of the wireless, only go intermittently.

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