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EAA’s annual Skiplane Fly-In at Pioneer Airport offers winter fun and a nod to the association’s roots. view on YouTube

With an infusion of new capital from Chinese interests, Mooney is on the move with two new models, the Acclaim Ultra and the Ovation Ultra. The company showed the Acclaim Ultra at a press event on Wednesday. view on YouTube

Aspen’s angle-of-attack indicator doesn’t require any additional hardware beyond the Evolution Flight display. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli took it for a spin recently and prepared this video report. Although it’s intended for stall awareness, it can also be used to improve approaches. view on YouTube

Paul Bertorelli recently sat down with Jeff Chamberlain from the Argonne National Laboratory as part of his research for an in-depth comparison of battery technologies for our sister publicationAviation Consumer. Chamberlain had a lot to say about the future of battery technology and its impact on the push toward electric airplanes. Read more here. Duration: […]

An airplane conceived in the 1980s gets a modern avionics makeover to take on the small-jet market. SyberJet’s Chuck Taylor says that even after all these years, the late Ed Swearingen’s crowning accomplishment still has no equal. view on YouTube

Cessna Aircraft launched the second year of its Top Hawk university program, announcing this week its 2016 participants: Kent State University, LeTourneau University, Purdue University and Westminster College. Each school will receive a new Cessna Skyhawk 172 to use for recruitment, flight training and participation in aviation events, along with the opportunity to send students […]

At every show we attend, we see more aircraft applications for lithium ion batteries, although some safety concerns related to thermal protection remain a worry. At the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring this week, Reg Nicosan of Earth-X, a major lithium ion manufacturer, gave AVweb an update on the state of the lithium ion […]

Drones have popped up at the major shows such as Sun ‘n Fun and AirVenture and now they’ve become a feature of the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo at Sebring this week. For the first time, the show has a drone demonstration area in a large hangar. (It’s the one with the 727 poking out the […]

“Affordable aircraft” are what the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo is touting in its tagline this year, and we’ve found one: the $34,000 Merlin PSA, which Aeromarine LSA debuted at the show. Chip Erwin shows us around the eminently affordable experimental in this video,and you canread more here. view on YouTube