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The EAA’s annual AirVenture show in Oshkosh has always been an economic barometer of sorts, with innovations lagging in lean years and new gadgets and airplanes galore when the numbers are fat. AirVenture 2002 proved an anomaly for although the economy is perceived as shaky and the markets are in freefall, we can’t recall a year when we’ve seen as much new stuff.

Most of the action continues to be in the avionics field but we saw a couple of intriguing airframe ideas, too. One thing we expected to see at Oshkosh but didn’t was the Eclipse 500 roll-out model. Earlier in July, with great fanfare, Eclipse rolled out what will…