Podcast

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, […]

Diamond rolls out D-Jet, decks out DA40; FAA acts on Cessna 120/140 Light Sport Aircraft proposal; new LSA support builds; cargo pilots want better fire regulation; exploding fuel tanks – NTSB says FAA’s fixes are no good; fighting ethanol in avgas; Ebersol crash co-pilot sues; composite 787 takes on lightning protection, weight; Northrop’s laser-shield for […]

A compromise for Age-60? There’s an election coming up this fall, and for the first time in 16 years, there are at least two candidates running. Dan Brannan is trying to unseat long-time Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) president Duane Woerth. And if Brannan wins, there may be changes coming to ALPA’s position on the Age-60 […]

The DC ADIZ is a growing concern – read about the proposed new rules; the FAA’s next funding plan may be on hold … pending a discussion of user fees; Washington may have picked its next DOT Secretary; Fournier’s bid to eclipse Kittinger’s free-fall; FAA to decommission direction finding; airport homes on the rise; ATG […]