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Although business aviation is, by all standards, a bit player in environmental impact, the high profile of private aviation and public perception demands perhaps more action to mitigate its carbon footprint than in other types of transportation. Embraer has embraced a factory-to-finished-product approach to environmental responsibility, and AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke with Embraer’s Graciliano Campos […]

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Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive We watch a lot of flying videos in the course of a week, but left to our own devices, we would still miss some of the best. Thankfully, AVweb readers like Robert Reid are there to send us links when they find great videos around the web. Here’s one Robert […]

In September 2004, Hurricane Francis battered the Southeast, causing widespread flooding. In the path of the storm in Morganton, North Carolina, was a rare piece of history – a now-submerged Fairchild 24 owned by Bradley Bormuth‘s father. By all measure, N2864O should have been lost. But Bradley and some friends set out on a two-year […]

Want to know more about what datalink can do for you in the cockpit? IFR Refresher serves up some answers in a double-shot of podcasts related to their June issue. In this audiocast, editor Meredith Saini chats with Bob Baron Sr., CEO of XM Weather parent company Baron Services. For more weather-wise audio from IFR […]

Want to know more about what datalink can do for you in the cockpit? IFR Refresher serves up some answers in a double-shot of podcasts related to their June issue. In this audiocast, editor Meredith Saini talks with Paul Devlin, business aviation program manager at WSI Corporation. For more weather-wise audio from IFR Refresher, click […]

Chances are, you’ve read one of Barry Schiff‘s books or heard him speak about his lifelong affair with the air, but the accomplished pilot and aviation advocate is also a staunch defender of one of the nation’s most threatened airports as chairman of the board of the Santa Monica Airport Association. AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke […]

As you may have read recently on AVweb, Swift Enterprises has unveiled a new general aviation fuel that it says will be less expensive, more fuel-efficient, and environmentally friendlier than any on the market. Swift promises their new synthetic fuel can replace standard petroleum fuel (100LL) and provide a greater effective range while costing about […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive In our latest “Video of the Week,” Powered Skydiving founder Dell Schanze puts a new paraglider through its paces by – what else? – tumbling through the sky with it. We see some pretty nifty stuff on the receiving end of your video recommendations, but this is something to behold: […]

Although it seemed like a pretty straightforward thing to do, politics got involved in the Senate’s consideration of the FAA Reauthorization Bill, and the legislation is stalled again. Andy Cebula, AOPA’s executive vice president for government affairs, talked with AVweb‘s Russ Niles about how the bill became mired by non-aviation issues and how it might […]