Sun ‘N Fun

At Sun ‘n Fun 2017 this week, Mooney International flew in the newly certified Acclaim Ultra, the first long-body Mooney with two cabin doors. Mooney says it has a small backlog of orders and expects to deliver the first airplanes later this year. AVweb interviewed Mooney CEO Vivek Saxena for this video report. view on […]

Sun ‘n Fun has been scheduling its show early in the season in recent years, in search of the best possible weather window, and if their luck holds, this week could work out pretty well. According to The Weather Channel, Tuesday and Wednesday will be hot in Lakeland, Florida, with high humidity and temperatures above […]

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 […]

With Groundhog Day behind us, springtime is not far away, and aviation events are gearing up. Sun ‘n Fun, the traditional season opener, is set for April 4 to 9 this year, in Lakeland, Florida. Advance discount tickets are available online for a few more days, until Feb. 14. The French military team, Patrouille de […]

Sun ‘n Fun will have an international flavor again this year as the French air force demonstration team the Patrouille de France has confirmed it will perform at the fly-in, which runs from April 4-7. The Blue Angels are also performing at Lakeland. For the past two years, the Breitling Jet Team has performed at […]