Podcast

NBAA may be all about jets and turboprops, but the big buzz so far has been Cessna’s pending purchase of Columbia Aircraft, a development that caught everyone by surprise. But is this acquisition really a good fit? Cessna’s VP for Sales, Roger Whyte, says it is. Duration: File Size: download here

If you were looking for a definition of busy, National Business Aviation Association President Ed Bolen would fill the bill. Not only is NBAA’s big convention coming up Tuesday in Atlanta, there are major developments in Washington concerning the prospect of user fees being applied to general aviation and particularly business aviation. Bolen took a […]

The age of the very light jet (and the version of the air taxi business it has spawned) is upon us, and it’s now time to find out if the bold predictions of some of the players will come true. Phillip Butterworth-Hayes is an analyst with PMI Media, a British and German firm that studies […]

To the rest of the world, he’s known as the ruggedly handsome actor who won an Academy Award for the 1968 classic Charly – but to the flying fraternity, Cliff Robertson is a respected pilot, tireless volunteer, and collector of precious warbirds. On Oct. 29, he’ll be presented with the National Aeronautic Association’s Wesley L. […]

Last week a lot of us added a new term to our technological lexicon. Not many of us had heard of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, but by now tens of thousands of people all over the world, many of them AVweb readers, not only got familiar with it, they used it to help search for Steve […]

About a year ago, New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey had the life-changing experience of surviving a mid-air collision with an airliner over the Amazon jungle. Most of us are familiar with the story about the Embraer Legacy’s brush with death and the tragedy that befell the 154 people on the Boeing 737 that crashed […]

IFR Magazine’s Jeff Van West had lunch with Greg Grant, a pilot whose fancy, new G1000 quit in bumpy IMC. Hear how Grant was able to complete his flight using a portable synthetic vision system and how it helps on any flight were you can’t see a runway that’s only a mile ahead and 600 […]

It’s one of the most rugged and desolate parts of the world, and it’s also one of the least populated, so the challenges of searching the mountains of western Nevada for Steve Fossett’s tiny blue and white airplane are monumental. But there is still strong hope that Fossett will be found alive as the Civil […]

Aviation lost an icon last week when Bill Piper Jr. died at the age of 96 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Piper worked alongside his brothers Tony and Pug, under the guidance of founder Bill Piper Sr. to create not just a company, but help develop the entire general aviation industry. His nephew John was close […]

If you’re flying commercially this weekend, you’ll likely have some time to ponder the words of Jim Burnley, the Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan. Burnley’s a Washington insider who believes that corporatizing the FAA is the most efficient and effective way of achieving the technological development the agency needs to cope with airspace […]