Air Shows & Events

The U.S. Army brought its very latest reconnaissance platform, the King Air-based MC-12S, to Sun ‘n Fun and we spoke with pilot CW3 Jereme Leason. He told us what he could about the technology onboard. view on YouTube

Americans love competition, or say that they do. A fundamental assumption of American business is that capital will find the most efficient way to reproduce itself and companies that fail deserve to fail. Plain and simple, it’s economic Darwinism. It’s a universal principle until, that is, it’s your own ox getting gored or you’re subjected […]

At Continental’s Mobile, Alabama, HQ this week, the company announced that it’s building a clean-sheet factory on new ground near the existing plant. It plans to install $40 million in new equipment to improve production efficiency. In this long-form podcast, Continental CEO Rhett Ross explains the company’s business plan and marketing philosophy. Duration: 18:31 File […]

A million bucks doesn’t buy what it used to, unless you’re buying five new axis machining cells, in which case it buys a lot more than it ever has. As Continental announces a major new investment in a new factory in Mobile, it will be building what we simply don’t see very often: a new, […]

Women make up half the college-educated workforce in the U.S., yet only 6 percent of pilots are women — a fact that independent filmmaker Katie McEntire Wiatt explores in her ongoing project, “Fly Like a Girl.” “Our goal with the film is to explore the questions, why aren’t more women and girls involved in aviation, […]

Of the 19 aircraft that set out from Crete, Greece, on Nov. 12, 14 survivors of the Crete2Cape Vintage Air Rally arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, after 8,000 miles and over a month of flying. The pre-WWII aircraft were the first to land at the Egyptian Pyramids at Giza in 80 years and the […]

Fans of the restored B-29 “Doc,” which flew last July after 16 years of effort by scores of volunteers in Wichita, have long yearned for the chance to see the airplane fly at EAA AirVenture, hopefully in formation with the only other flying B-29, the CAF’s FiFi. Doc’s Friends aren’t saying yet if that historic […]

At this year’s Aircraft Electronics Association show in New Orleans, a number of new products were announced, albeit no major ones for the end user. Here’s a summary of what we saw at the show. Cabin entertainment and data systems are a significant part of the avionics industry and AEA never fails to deliver new […]

LEDs are all but standard equipment on new cars and it’s getting that way on airplanes, even legacy models. At the Aircraft Electronics Association show in New Orleans, AeroLEDs announced no fewer than 15 new products for 2017. In this AVweb video, AeroLED’s Dean Wilkinson gives a summary of three of the products. view on […]

Avidyne has been slugging away on a new upgrade for the IFD series navigators and at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in the New Orleans this week, the company rolled out software changes that add synthetic vision and wireless capability for iPad support for these navigators. In this AVweb video, Avidyne’s Tom Harper walks us […]