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Economic jitters and rising fuel costs have had an impact on piston aircraft sales, and this week Diamond Aircraft came up with a way to try to fight back — the company is offering a year’s worth of free fuel, plus free maintenance, insurance, and training for buyers of a new DA40 XLS. “We are […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to the Lakeland Florida location of Landmark Aviation (KLAL). AVweb reader Alec Thigpen recommended the FBO, telling us how manager Stephen Leidigh helped him (and others) during the very busy week of Sun ‘n Fun: [O]n a busy Saturday of […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive With the Red Bull Air Races hitting Detroit, let’s take a few moments to watch some practice laps, courtesy of our friends at Red Bull: Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Don’t forget to […]

Submit a Photo | Rules | Tips | Questions | Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings.  The top photos are featured on AVweb‘s home page, and one photo that stands above the others is awarded […]

French adventurer Michel Fournier watched his dreams of a record-setting skydive drift away on Tuesday as the helium balloon that was to carry him to the edge of space slipped its moorings and disappeared into the Canadian prairie sky. At a news conference Tuesday, Fournier speculated that static electricity caused the explosive charges that would […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Midwest National Air Center at KGPH in Mosby, Missouri. AVweb reader Robert Parker recommended the FBO, citing the owner’s eerie prescience: John somehow knew before we landed that we’d been fighting fierce headwinds the previous four hours. He met […]

Click here for an enhanced photo podcast with images.Enhanced podcast opens in a new window. You may need to disable pop-up blockers. If the above link doesn’t work, click here. Just a few weeks ago, Mooney announced final approvals on its new version of the Acclaim, the Type S. The company claims a 242-knot top […]

Click here for an enhanced photo podcast with images.Enhanced podcast opens in a new window. You may need to disable pop-up blockers. If the above link doesn’t work, click here. For those of us not in the market for a $600,000 new airplane, Aspen Avionics is now shipping the Evolution EFIS for the aftermarket. Our […]

Submit a Photo | Rules | Tips | Questions | Past Winners “Picture of the Week” will return next Thursday, once we’ve returned from EBACE and had a chance to look through all the great photos you’ve been submitting. (You are submitting them, right?) – A quick note for submitters:  If you’ve got several photos […]

A pair of New England balloon pilots have developed what they hope could be a new way for homebuilders to share design ideas, modeled after “open content” and “open source” collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux. “Closed content gets fixed in time,” says pilot Dan Nachbar, of Amherst, Mass. “Open content tends to evolve. Good […]