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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 […]

One of the more visible of the “new generation” of builder-assist programs, Glasair Aviation’s Two Weeks to Taxi program has been continually updated since its inception in 2006. Company president Mikael Via talks about the program and the possible impact of changes to the 51% Rule. This podcast brought to you by Bose Corporation and […]

Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb | Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos AVweb is an aviation news service and magazine, but the annual Sun ‘n Fun Fly-in isn’t just about products – it’s also about performers. So, without further ado, here are some of the best pilots in the world, doing what they’re good at, courtesy of […]

Seeing through clouds is the coming technology, but it comes with a price. Grand Rapids’ Todd Stehouwer talks about the technological challenges of implementing synthetic vision in an Experimental-class EFIS. This podcast brought to you by Bose Corporation and WxWorx XM WX Satellite Weather. Duration: File Size: download here

If your older SR22 isn’t quite as fast as you’d like it to be, Tornado Alley has a solution: You can now buy aftermarket turbonormalizers for all but the earliest SR22 from Tornado Alley Turbo, which provides systems for factory turbo’d SR22s. TAT’s Tim Roehl told AVweb about these systems when we visited the TAT […]