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The age of the very light jet (and the version of the air taxi business it has spawned) is upon us, and it’s now time to find out if the bold predictions of some of the players will come true. Phillip Butterworth-Hayes is an analyst with PMI Media, a British and German firm that studies […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive This week’s “Video of the Week” comes to us from Spike/iFilm and goes all the way back to 1984, when NASA and the FAA worked together to crash a Boeing 720. Their intent was to study the influence of a fuel additive designed to suppress fire, but ours in the […]

To the rest of the world, he’s known as the ruggedly handsome actor who won an Academy Award for the 1968 classic Charly – but to the flying fraternity, Cliff Robertson is a respected pilot, tireless volunteer, and collector of precious warbirds. On Oct. 29, he’ll be presented with the National Aeronautic Association’s Wesley L. […]

Last week a lot of us added a new term to our technological lexicon. Not many of us had heard of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, but by now tens of thousands of people all over the world, many of them AVweb readers, not only got familiar with it, they used it to help search for Steve […]

About a year ago, New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey had the life-changing experience of surviving a mid-air collision with an airliner over the Amazon jungle. Most of us are familiar with the story about the Embraer Legacy’s brush with death and the tragedy that befell the 154 people on the Boeing 737 that crashed […]

IFR Magazine’s Jeff Van West had lunch with Greg Grant, a pilot whose fancy, new G1000 quit in bumpy IMC. Hear how Grant was able to complete his flight using a portable synthetic vision system and how it helps on any flight were you can’t see a runway that’s only a mile ahead and 600 […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive The folks at the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum are hard at work putting the finishing touches on a replica of the America, a Glenn Curtiss twin-engine OX-6 “flying boat” that was originally conceived (in 1914, mind you) as a trans-Atlantic transport. 30,000-hour retired American Airlines Captain Jim Poel is scheduled […]

It’s one of the most rugged and desolate parts of the world, and it’s also one of the least populated, so the challenges of searching the mountains of western Nevada for Steve Fossett’s tiny blue and white airplane are monumental. But there is still strong hope that Fossett will be found alive as the Civil […]

Aviation lost an icon last week when Bill Piper Jr. died at the age of 96 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Piper worked alongside his brothers Tony and Pug, under the guidance of founder Bill Piper Sr. to create not just a company, but help develop the entire general aviation industry. His nephew John was close […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Given this weekend’s terrible news about the Zelazny Aerobatic team, we thought we’d share this slideshow of the team in action, posted on YouTube by user gumisiekkk: Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly.