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Build A Plane has opened a new eBay Store for aviation just in time for your Christmas shopping. AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney talks with Executive Director Katrina Bradshaw about the new eBay site and gets an update on some of Build A Plane’s recent success stories. Duration: File Size: download here

In last Monday’s AVwebAudio podcast, we spoke with aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia, whose consistent message has been that very light jets and the air taxi business they are helping to spawn will not be the market explosion that some are claiming. Well, as you might expect, there are differing opinions on that topic, and Joe […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Last week, we showed you an A310 from FlyboyTV and promised more big-iron videos in the weeks to come – and since we mislabelled the A310 as an A380 on the home page, this might be a good opportunity to show you a real A380 doing some interesting testing. In […]

AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney speaks with Cessna CEO Jack Pelton hours after returning from a trip to Bend, Oregon, where Pelton announced to former Columbia Aircraft employees and the local media that Cessna will be taking over the facility that manufactures the popular Columbia 350 and 400 in the next few weeks. Pelton also responds to […]

As Eclipse Aviation continues to struggle to make its production targets and other players in the very light jet market ramp up production to achieve their modest sales goals, aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia says the impact of the little jets on the overall industry is about what it can and should be. He told AVweb‘s […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive We’ve all seen some impressive aerobatics at air shows. Usually, there’s an F-15 doing rolls and making low passes to give the crowds a thrill, but how often have you seen those same tricks performed in the big iron – like, say for instance, an Airbus A310? Thanks to the […]

Although it’s been available for only about five years, it’s hard to recall when datalink weather wasn’t the standard equipment it seems to be. As part of ongoing coverage of weatherlink in its December 2007 issue, our sister publication, Aviation Consumer, interviewed Bob Baron, whose WxWorx service is the leading datalink provider. He tells the […]

IFR spoke with Charlie Richardson, a veteran controller and controllers’ instructor, about what happens when screens go dark at a major control center. Duration: File Size: download here

Last week’s Dubai Air Show may have been a turning point in commercial aviation history. Oil-rich Middle Eastern countries have apparently decided that they want to take the area’s historic role as crossroads of the world and give that a modern, aviation-centric context. Airlines there accounted for most of the hundred billion dollars in aircraft […]

As you may have read in Thursday’s AVwebFlash, the sands of time have buried an intact P-38 for more than 60 years since it was abandoned on a Welsh beach. Now named the Maid of Harlech (for a town near the beach), the Second World War fighter will soon be recovered and restored to original […]