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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 […]

The Humanus Documentary Films Foundation is working on a World War I documentary that follows the story of the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of young American pilots who volunteered to fly for France at the beginning of the First World War. In this podcast, filmmakers Darroch Greer and Paul Glenshaw tell AVweb more about the […]

Slovenia-based Pipistrel Vertical Solutions threw its hat into the eVTOL ring Tuesday by revealing a multi-fan electric airplane with vertical takeoff and landing capability. At Uber’s Elevate Summit in Washington, D.C., Pipistrel unveiled the so-called 801 as a five-occupant winged aircraft capable of a 60-mile range at 175 MPH or more. The 801 has four […]

At the Uber Elevate Summit in Washington, D.C., Pipistrel Vertical Solutions revealed its design for a air taxi to meet Uber’s UAM requirements. In this exclusive AVweb podcast, Pipistrel’s Tine Tomazic discusses the details.

Dynon Avionics has an STC for installing the Certified SkyView HDX in Cessna 172 Skyhawks (and also for some Beech Bonanza models), which in the end makes for an all-electric, all-glass ultra-modern avionics suite. To see what it really takes to make the transformation, Aviation Consumer magazine Editor Larry Anglisano followed a SkyView project in […]

Concluding our D-Day commemoration coverage, here’s a video AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli shot last year on a visit to Utah Beach.

As the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy continues, the AFP News Agency filed this short video of jumps from a pair of the C-47 aircraft flown in for the event. Later commemorative jumps included some 200 paratroopers.