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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 […]

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 […]