AOPA Live This Week

We wrap up our EAA AirVenture coverage with firsthand perspectives from the show and further glimpses of aviation’s future. We also celebrate a century of aerial application in Leesburg, Virginia.

From AirVenture 2021: New airplanes, including the Diamond DA50 RG, Mike Patey's Scrappy, the Blackshape Gabriel. E-VTOLs fly at Osh. Form camp in T-34 Mentors.

We're aware of technical issues with the audio, and thank you for your understanding.

The Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2+ now has more thrust, and better connectivity. Watch Blue Origin make Wally Funk an astronaut at last. Also, reflecting on five years of BasicMed.

Mark Baker is ticked at the FAA. See what has him hopping mad. Two millennials buy an airport and turn it into a slice of heaven. Richard Branson rides Rutans rocket, and that's no canard. Live ATC added to sim flight, including AirVenture arrival!

A YouTube series about gourmet cooking while airplane camping. (The world's best meatloaf - made in a farm field!). Getting your sea wings in an ICON. A family trip to the Thomas P. Stafford Air and Space Museum. A troubling series of DA accidents.

Take a Sentimental Journey back to where the Piper Cub was born. A teenager flying around the world in a Cessna 172. A blow-up canoe you can take in your airplane (maybe).

Check out an airplane that can cruise the flight levels at 300 knots and yet be flown under BasicMed. Also, the avionics industry convenes in Dallas, and a very sentimental barn find.

Fly along for a lesson in a high-performance jet, visit with the author of a novel about the first African American and Native American woman pilot, preview what'll be new at EAA AirVenture. We talk to a glider pilot who took turns around a funnel.

AOPA pushes back hard on a legal view that puts the flight training industry in jeopardy. Also, an 18-year-old pilot crosses the country in a Piper Cub, and visiting a unique aviation museum in Kentucky.

Flying the Tecnam P2006T. Rescuing sea turtles with general aviation airplanes. The impossible turn: how well does YOUR airplane do?