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When Bob Richards retired as a controller after 22 years in the O’Hare tower, he had a lifetime of stories to tell, not all of them pretty. He put his fingers on the keys and tried to give an honest account of not just the stress and demands of the job, but the human achievment […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive We know them as “waterbombers,” “superscoopers,” and “ducks,” but when wildfires burn out of control (as they did this week throughout Southern California), Canadair’s CL-series firefighters are nothing short of lifesavers. In this clip from CNN (posted on LiveLeak by user bellava), we see one such scooper flying low over […]

AVweb Contributing Editor and Aviation Safety magazine Editor-in-Chief Joseph E. (Jeb) Burnside sat down recently with Robert Sumwalt, vice-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Portions of their wide-ranging interview on Sumwalt’s aviation background, increases in general aviation’s accident rate, and light-aircraft flight data recorders are included in this month’s Aviation Safety magazine podcast. […]

For months – if not years – we’ve been hearing about Honeywell’s new APEX EFIS system. We clapped eyes on it for the first time at the NBAA show in Atlanta in a second-generation PC-12. (You’ll find a full report on the airplane in the November issue of Aviation Consumer.) Meanwhile, we interviewed Pilatus North […]

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Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb |Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos The testing team from Aviation Consumer is back, bringing you another exclusive product review. This month, Consumer Editor-in-Chief Paul Bertorelli talks with Zaon CEO and co-founder Jason Clemens about the company’s XRX portable collision avoidance system (PCAS), and the two demonstrate how the XRX interfaces with […]

Pilots often think of the ASRS as a “get out of jail free” card, but it’s more than that. IFR chats with Linda Connell, Director of the Aviation Safety Reporting System at NASA Ames Research Center. Get to know the program, how it works, and what it can do for you. Duration: File Size: download […]

When the Light Sport Aircraft category and the Sport Pilot certificate were created a couple of years ago, proponents claimed a new era in aviation had begun because learning to fly would become so much more accessible under the relaxed training and medical rules. Well, if the experience of Chesapeake Sport Pilot is any indication, […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive This week, we turn our attention away from the usual timely and immediately relevant videos found around the ‘net and instead cast our eyes back to the 1960s and ’70s. Last week, AVweb reader Noah Forden sent us a link to a page about the “Caspian Sea Monster,” a Russian […]

Things got a lot more interesting in the Columbia Aircraft saga in the last week, with Cirrus Design expressing interest in a takeover that seemed to be sewn up by Cessna. Cirrus CEO Alan Klapmeier told AVweb‘s Russ Niles that he wasn’t about to let Cessna buy his company’s main competitor in the high performance […]