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La Rochelle, France-based Elixir Aircraft is making steady progress with its EASA-certified, two-seat, molded carbon fiber aircraft, ramping up production and expanding its facilities. In this podcast recorded at Aero 2023 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Elixir co-founder Cyril Champenois discusses the company’s expansion plans, accomplishments and where the aircraft fits in the current market.

Cirrus Aircraft announced at Aero 2023 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, that it has delivered its 9,000th SR-series aircraft. In this podcast, SR product line director Ivy McIver talks with AVweb about the milestone delivery, what it means for the company and how Cirrus approaches moving its aircraft forward.

Commemorating the miraculous recovery of Apollo 13 this week, we take a look at how NASA kept the giant Saturn 5 booster precisely in the center lane on the way to the Moon. In this information packed seven-minute video, the Primal Space channel explains how the inertial guidance platform in the Saturn 5 booster knew […]

Increasingly, simulators are the way pilots learn to fly, even at the local flight school. The perennial chicken-egg argument is do you need a motion-base simulator or will a fixed sim do? If you want the former, a company called Runway One (rwy.one) can fix you up. In the AVweb video, Chris Eger explains how […]

In this video, Mariano Rosales captures some of the highlights from this week’s airshows and flight demonstrations at the 49th annual Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Florida.

One of the most long-lived LSA designs is CubCrafters’ Carbon Cub. From the outset, it has been a light, well-powered design and now, the company is upping the ante again. At Sun ‘n Fun 2023, it took the wraps off the Carbon Cub UL powered by Rotax’s new 916 iS engine at 160 HP. In […]