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Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Wanna see a Boeing 777 put together from the ground up? Got five minutes? Thanks to the wonder of time-lapse videography and the thoughtfulness of AVweb reader Denis Donohue (who forwarded the video link to us), you can watch the whole process and not get caught by your boss. (No […]

Sally Crossfield Farley, one of the late Scott Crossfield’s six children, has created the Scott Crossfield Foundation to, among other things, carry on the A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year Award. We caught up with Sally to find out about the foundation, but also what it was like being raised by a […]

Is there a critical shortage of air traffic controllers? Well, it depends who you ask. We asked both the FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association to join IFR‘s Jeff Van West on a podcast, but only NATCA stepped up to have their side of the story get airtime. Duration: File Size: download here

When we think of victims of war, we most likely think of the men and women in uniform who either never return or come back injured and disabled. But their families are also victims, and retired Marine Corps Col. Jack Howell is using aviation to help the children of those soldiers find solace and direction. […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive It’s been a while since we’re run a radio-controlled airplane clip as our “Video of the Week,” but when AVweb reader Taber Bucknell told us about this realistic-looking F-16 model with a working afterburner (“The information with the video says afterburner ‘effect,’ but still – it looks great!”), we couldn’t […]

It’s been awhile since there was a major Hollywood movie themed around aviation, and plans are in the works for a $35 million production that will use aerobatic competition and EAA AirVenture as a backdrop to an inspiring character story. AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke with Karl Koeppen about the upcoming production. Duration: File Size: download […]

For this month’s IFR Refresher podcast, editor Meredith Saini spoke with Major Nicole Malachowski of the U.S. Air Force about the qualities a good IFR safety pilot should possess. Meredith caught up with her at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., where Major Malachowski recently gave a presentation on her career and […]

Texas Sport’s Kurt Sehnert talks with Kitplanes magazine‘s Marc Cook about the first completed Texas Sport Cub, which was on prominent display in the company’s booth at Sun ‘n Fun. The Texas Sport Cub is a derivative of the Legend Cub factory-built Light Sport aircraft that is constructed as an Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft. It can be […]

To wrap up our daily Sun ‘n Fun coverage, we have a quick chat with ConocoPhillips’ Harold Tucker, director of technical information and training. An industry veteran, Tucker offers his thoughts on the ideal oil and external additives and gives us a few tips that could help pilots and owners get more life from their […]

Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb | Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos For more than 100 years, piston aircraft pilots have been priming, pumping and leaning their engines to coax maximum performance out of them (or just keep them running). Other types of gasoline-powered conveyances largely ditched carburetion and all that comes with it 10 years ago […]