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At any convention, a lot of the real business is done in the hallways, the reception rooms, and the quiet corners that movers and shakers find when they need to talk turkey. The National Business Aviation Association meeting in Atlanta and AOPA’s annual get-together in Hartford provided plenty of opportunities for the kind of informal […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive More incredible aerobatics from the World Wide Web, this time courtesy of AVweb reader Paul Logue (thanks, Paul!) and featuring Eastern European pilots Svetlana Kapanina and Pter Besenyei: 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.

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive This week’s viral video clip comes to us from AVweb reader Brady Zaiser, who found this clip of the incredible Bob Hoover demonstrating a few aerobatic tricks on Snotr. (Brady, we’ll be sending you an AVweb hat for tracking this down – and we’ll do the same for anyone else […]

Visit your local airport, and chances are you’ll hear a different sound in the air these days. Rotax engines, until recently relegated almost entirely to the ultralight segment, are in almost all Light Sport Aircraft now being sold in the U.S., and it’s a case of the right engine at the right time, according to […]

The University of North Dakota’s Aerospace program has always prided itself in staying on the leading edge of aviation training, and it made a move into the burgeoning very light jet market at AOPA Expo in Hartford. Don Dubuque, director of flight operations for the highly regarded institution, talked to AVweb‘s Russ Niles about the […]

The light sport aircraft market is crowded with contenders going after the same market niche. Lynne Birmingham of Tecnam USA talks about the company’s plans to move beyond the LSA market and introduce Part 23 certified aircraft including a retractable-gear trainer and a new light twin. Duration: File Size: download here

Walk around the displays of AOPA Expo and you’ll see dozens of digital flight displays, from the new L-3 SmartDeck down to attitude displays that run on a smart phone. Jeff Simon of VistaNav explains what makes their synthetic vision system different and what’s coming down the road for their platform. Duration: File Size: download […]

Diamond Aircraft is a company known for innovation. It was the first major manufacturer to offer aerodiesels, and it introduced the first new twin in two decades, the DA42 TwinStar. This week at AOPA Expo, Diamond’s Heike Larson gave AVweb‘s Paul Bertorelli the details on two more new models, both variants of the DA40 Star. […]

Anyone who’s gotten a telephone preflight briefing during the past year knows that Lockheed Martin has had its troubles in delivering this important service to pilots. At AOPA Expo this week, AVweb‘s Paul Bertorelli asked Lockheed Martin Dan Courain what the company has done to improve its service. Here’s his report. Duration: File Size: download […]

Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb |Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos Cirrus’s The-Jet is finally here, and President Alan Klapmeier takes you on an exclusive guided tour of the latest VLJ in this exclusive AVweb video. 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 […]