Podcast

A team headed by NASA engineer Mark Moore plans to fly a modified Tecnam P2006T driven by an array of small propellers powered by electric batteries. Moore explains to AVweb’s Mary Grady how this project could completely upend the design rules for GA aircraft of the future. Duration: 5:34 File Size: 6.4 MB download here

The PBS show The Aviators starts its sixth season this week, and producer Anthony Nalli has been at the helm for every episode. He talks with AVweb’s Mary Grady about what makes the show so popular — and what’s coming up for this season. Duration: 4:53 File Size: 5.6 MB download here

Flying in the annual Red Bull Air Races on a tight course with speeds up to 200 knots and forces up to 10 Gs isn’t easy, and this year U.S. competitor Kirby Chambliss, who’s won the series twice in the past, isn’t doing as well as he’d like. He talked with AVweb‘s Mary Grady via […]

Dianna Stanger‘s unique L-139 won the prize for best jet in the warbird division this summer at EAA AirVenture, and next week it will be flying at Reno, competing in the National Championship Air Races. Stanger talks with AVweb’s Mary Grady about the airplane and her efforts to introduce more women and girls to aviation. […]

Judy Rice and the Think Global Flight team have returned from their two-month trip around the world promoting education in an aviation context to students and adults in 25 countries. They departed Burbank, California on June 13 in a donated Citation Mustang. Along the way, Rice reached out to more than 20,000 students, who were […]

Elliot Seguin, who works as an engineer at Scaled Composites by day and designs and flies his own racing planes at night, won this year’s Spirit of Flight Award, given by the Society of Experimental Test Pilots at EAA AirVenture. After flying home to Mojave, Sequin talked with AVweb’s Mary Grady about what it meant […]

Jeff Herold has helped to establish a new nonprofit group, the Catalina Island Aviation Foundation, to preserve and promote the island’s traditional air show, which is held above the harbor at the tourist mecca of Avalon, 26 miles off the California coast. Organizing a show on a small, remote island comes with unique challenges, and […]

Operators of unmanned aerial systems now can submit their flight plans online, and those operations will be displayed graphically to general aviation pilots when they file their flight plans, Lockheed Martin said on Monday. “Our objective is an open, standards-based system that individual operators and other private UTM [UAS traffic management] systems can use to […]

Lockheed Martin Flight Services is stepping up UAS awareness with its recently introduced unmanned traffic management (UTM) service. Aimed at increasing situational awareness when it comes to sharing the airspace with commercial drone operations, UTM includes an evolving set of functions and services — including a simplified and automated UAS NOTAM filing process, online graphics […]

In tightly knit pilot communities, an accident often has profound effects on the group because most people in it know the accident pilot. That was definitely the case with the Larry Glazer TBM accident in 2014, in which the pilot became unresponsive, apparently due to hypoxia, and overflew his destination, crashing at sea near Jamaica. […]