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In today’s newscast, hear about how AOPA is fighting user fees, layoffs at Columbia Aircraft, another helicopter air-tour crash in Hawaii, a pilotless cargoliner, and more. Brought to you by Bose Corporation. Duration: File Size: download here

Richard Midson, of London LBC News 1152 AM‘s Evening News program, interviews Miles Hilton-Barber, the blind pilot who this week began his “solo” trip from Britain to Australia along the route of a 1919 air race through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Duration: File Size: download here

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Before we jump into this week’s “VOTW,” we’d like to thank Will, Derek, Larry, Brian, and a couple of other AVweb readers for pointing out that last week’s FLIR video was actually shot from a Gulfstream, not an F-16. Thanks to those who caught the commenter’s typo and gave us […]

Expedition Aircraft unexpectedly came on the scene recently with a pair of workhorse piston singles that are expected to be certified later this year. AVweb spoke with the company’s marketing and sales director, Andrew Hamblin, to find out more about Expedition Aircraft and its E350 and E350XC airplanes. Duration: File Size: download here

In today’s newscast, hear about the highlights of Heli-Expo 2007, production problems looming at Eclipse Aviation, lawsuits flying in the wake of the Cory Lidle crash, Jacksonville reconsidering its ban on building kit airplanes in garages, and more. Brought to you byBose Corporation. Duration: File Size: download here

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Our latest “Video of the Week” comes to us from an AVweb reader who writes: For those that know what FLIR is, I have a video you need to see. This is [a Gulfstream] … on a visual landing to Aspen, Colorado at night. The right half of the view […]

In the March 2007 issue of Aviation Consumer, the magazine flight tests the new turbonormalized Mooney Acclaim. In this related podcast, the company’s new CEO Dennis Ferguson talks about Mooney’s latest reorganization and how it plans to market its aircraft going forward. Duration: File Size: download here

LoPresti’s still-in-the-making – the factory’s not yet built – two-place retract Fury aircraft will sport an iPod for entertainment and flight data recording (but not “black box”) purposes, according to LoPresti’s vice president of operations R.J. Siegel. One unit is already in testing, and AVweb‘s Glenn Pew caught up with R.J. to find out how […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive There are two videos we receive (and stumble across) more often than any others on the web. Both videos are testaments to human ingenuity and technical achievement – and they never fail to raise a giggle when we see them. We’ve held them in reserve for a while, just in […]

Controllers at Dallas-Fort Worth International’s regional TRACON have been given a refresher after they denied an American Airlines 757 priority handling, despite the fact that the crew declared an emergency. Brought to you byBose Corporation. Duration: File Size: download here