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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.

If you’re flying commercially this weekend, you’ll likely have some time to ponder the words of Jim Burnley, the Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan. Burnley’s a Washington insider who believes that corporatizing the FAA is the most efficient and effective way of achieving the technological development the agency needs to cope with airspace […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Hmmm – seems as though we haven’t showcased a floatplane here in a while, so how about this clip (from YouTube contributor gsmac1969) that we’ve been saving for a while? Enjoy! Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download […]

Ever feel the slightest twinge of guilt at sending the byproducts from all those gallons of 100 low lead or Jet A into the atmosphere. Well, Jeff Witward of Carbon Neutral Planes thought you might want a way to sleep better at night, and he’s tailored a program just for aircraft operators. AVweb‘s Russ Niles […]