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June 22, 2016

Oldest Certified Rotax Aircraft Engine Still In Operation Has Been Found

Rotax 912 A Flying In A Super Dimona

Last year, BRP and its Rotax brand celebrated 40 years of Rotax aircraft engines and launched a contest that ended on December 31, 2015 to find the oldest certified Rotax aircraft engine in operation.

Airplane Will Be Ready To Taxi In Two Weeks

Students Derrick Cleaves, Logan Feltz, Austin Krause, and Natasha Stemwedel, teacher Mike Hansen, and chaperone Jerry Graf—the winners of the GAMA/Build A Plane 2016 Aviation Design Challenge—will spend the next two weeks building a Glasair Sportsman airplane at Glasair Aviation in Arlington, Washington, as their prize. The team from Weyauwega-Fremont High School in Weyauwega, Wisconsin won the all-expenses-paid trip to assemble the Sportsman as part of the fourth annual Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) competition.

Just When You Think You’ve Seen Every Conceivable Aerobatic Maneuver, AirVenture Proves You Wrong

EAA and the newly formed Paradigm Aerobatic Team have announced the team’s first U.S.-based performance at AirVenture Oshkosh 2016. The Paradigm Team is scheduled to showcase their unique style of aerobatics as part of the evening air shows on Wednesday and Saturday July 27 and 30.