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Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Move over, Jack Bauer! If you think you accomplish a lot in one day, check out this week’s time-lapse map showing all of FedEx’s flights inside the continental U.S. over a 25-hour period. Suddenly Memphis is starting to look a lot like the center of the universe … . Don’t […]

When Texas oil man Mark Bent was flying his motorglider over eastern Africa, he noticed that huge expanses of the wilderness were deforested. When he found out why, his innovative brain went to work, and he came up with the BoGo Light, an inexpensive solar-powered LED light source that is changing the lives of thousands […]

Greg Lewis from the National Test Pilot School speaks to AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney about unusual attitudes and how to cope with them, in this supplement Aviation Safety magazine’s June 2007 issue. Duration: File Size: download here

AVweb Editor-in-Chief Chad Trautvetter spoke with DayJet President and CEO Ed Iacobucci to see what the per-seat, on-demand operator is doing to prepare for its service launch with Eclipse 500 very light jets, as well as to find out how he feels about the delays at Eclipse Aviation. Duration: File Size: download here

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive With fire-fighting season upon us, we’d like to call your attention to the amazing heavy water bombers that turn the tide of so many forest fire battles in North America each year. This week’s clip comes to us from the folks at Dryden Regional Airport in Ontario, Canada. Take a […]

Pogo Jet President Cameron Burr spoke with AVweb Editor-in-Chief Chad Trautvetter earlier this week at the Business Models for VLJs and Light Jets Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida. Duration: File Size: download here

Retired TWA captain and renowned radar lecturer Dave Gwinn chats with Glenn Pew about the importance (and limitations) or radar in the IFR system. You may be surprised at what you can learn from Gwinn if you spend a few minutes with him … . Duration: File Size: download here

Last week, Lockheed Martin began final implementation of its new flight services system in the Washington area, and it didn’t go exactly according to plan. There were dropped flight plans and a lot of frustrated pilots who suddenly found themselves dealing with briefers who didn’t understand the procedures for flying in the restricted airspace around […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Glenn Pew speaks with Cessna vice president of propeller aircraft sales, John Doman, about the company’s Next Generation Piston proof-of-concept (NGP POC) aircraft. 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 Man’s best friend is the dog, but the electric companies’ best friend may well be the helicopter. Last week, we saw how helicopters do thankless jobs like tree-trimming around power lines. This week, let’s take a look at some other (pretty impressive) line maintenance that could only be done with […]