Multimedia

Travel overseas to learn why the Avro Vulcan, a four-engine, 110-foot delta-wing bomber, is seeking public help to fly again – and why one group believes it deserves to. Designed as a cold war deterrent (nuclear bomber), the aircraft was ultimately used in the Falkland Islands conflict. But the grace, size, sound, and agility of […]

News for August 14, 2006Bizjets and VLJs could benefit from the latest aviation-related terror scare; metal fatigue research may help predict failure; UAVs welcome in Alaska; Innodyn light-turbine update; landing distance order questioned; pilot fatigue still an issue; a new ultralight engine; CAP and the Mexican border; the Thunder Mustang comeback; and Public Benefit Flying […]

General Aviation Security.News this week out of Britain of a foiled terror plot targeting commercial aircraft again focussed the world’s attention on aviation security. This week, AVweb speaks with AOPA representative Chris Dancy about AOPA’s Airport Watch. The program serves dual purposes – to help keep us safe from terrorists and to help keep legislators […]

News for August 7, 2006: Where have all the pilots gone; airline pensions bill stirs controversy; the last flying B-29, FiFi needs help; Cessna takes tips from successful kit companies; NATCA is pushing a new bill to renew contract negotiations; balloon manufacturer falls; an aircraft joyrider was sentenced; and the EAA on AirVenture accident prevention. […]

B-29. They say there’s only one still flying and that it will take an estimated $3 million to keep it that way. Fifi, the living example of a pivotal character in events that changed the course of history, is the charge of the all-volunteer, non-profit Commemorative Air Force. The group is struggling to keep four […]

Rev engines? It’s lighter than a TIO-540, comparable in power, turbine-like, and (according to the company’s spokesman) an aircraft manufacturer is lined up. Hear the latest. Plus, Sport Pilot test pilot Jim Stewart was at the helm of the experimental Sport Jet when it cart-wheeled off the runway. Hear his story and future plans for […]

Podcast Index | How to Listen | Subscribe Via RSS Live from AirVenture, AVweb talks with the man who built a very capable airplane in 18 days. Marc Cook, editor of Kitplanes magazine, the first man to go through Glasair Aviation’s Two Weeks to Taxi builder’s program shares his experience. Then, preflight ADAM Aircraft‘s A500 […]

Garmin talks shop about its latest leading-edge glass – and Chelton responds. A Swedish group tells how they took Diamond’s DA42 across the Pacific and will continue around the world. Cirrus’s Alan Klapmeier talks about his company’s program that leaves buyers with a new airplane plus a CFII (for a year). ECI’s Ed Salmeron explains […]

In today’s extended podcast – recorded live at AirVenture Oshkosh 2006 – Cessna’s man-in-command, Jack Pelton, talks about the new Cessna designs revealed Monday that dropped jaws all across the show grounds. (There is some background noise. Persevere; it mellows.) Hear Diamond’s Peter Mauer talk shop about the D-Jet and ballistic whole-plane parachutes. EAA president […]

AVweb talks with EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski about AirVenture Oshkosh 2006. Aside from 10,000 airplanes and 700,000 people expected, AVweb is adding a Garmin 496 giveaway, plus iPod Nano and other GPS giveaways. The show grounds will be buzzing with Light Sport Aircraft (including Cessna’s proposed design) and more in the planning phases. Interesting people, […]