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Getting to the Moon was one thing, but NASA designers had to design a way to safely brake a capsule traveling at 36,000 feet per second without frying the spacecraft or crushing the crew. This NASA film posted by AIRBOYD explains how they did it.

There are plenty of aging legacy jets with maintenance-intensive avionics nearly ready for fresh avionics, and Garmin is on it. Two-plus years in the making, it recently completed the expensive STC for the G5000 integrated avionics and autopilot for Cessna Citation Excel/XLS business jets—a favorite among a wide variety of operators. In this video Aviation […]

Ever wonder how a radial engine goes together, especially how those seven or nine connecting rods all merge at the crankshaft? Grab some coffee and sit through this master class video by Dan Cabral and you’ll find out. Carbral is a product design engineer and used Keyshot to render this animation and After Effects to […]

Daher’s factory in Tarbes, France, is one of the most modern aerospace facilities in the world. In this long-form video, AVweb explains how they build the TBM turboprop.

Tamarack Aerospace says most of the Citation 525 series jets equipped with its ATLAS active winglets grounded by AD in May are now fitted with revised hardware. The company—and owners—are awaiting technical reviews from EASA and the FAA to clear the AD and return the airplanes to service. In this exclusive AVweb podcast, Tamarack’s Jacob […]

How do you survive landing an airplane in a tree? Fly it as slow as it will go and carry three ways to summon help. That worked pretty well for 79-year-old John Gregory of McCall, Idaho. The flight training site flym8.com summarized the crash in this Best of the Web video. On a night flight […]