Podcast

Tamarack Aerospace hopes to emerge from Chapter 11 protection by the end of the year and then resume expanding the range of aircraft that can benefit from its active winglet installation. The company was rocked by an emergency airworthiness directive that grounded more than 100 Cessna Citations equipped with the system earlier this year. The […]

When the Cirrus first appeared 25 years ago, one of its safety features was a split-incidence, stall resistant wing. Yet the airplane still has a stall accident pattern and one that has a twist: Many of the stalls occur on go-arounds. In this, the fourth in our five-part podcast series on stall awareness and prevention, […]

Anyone who studies aircraft accidents in detail will eventually get around to observing that pilots are trained (a) to pass checkrides and (b) to minimal standards to accomplish that. That’s especially true of stall training, which emphasizes recovery rather than avoidance. In this podcast, the third of a five-part series on stall awareness, we talked […]

Pilots are trained to recognize stalls and recover from them, but are they as well trained at avoiding them in the first place? In this, our second in a five-part series on stall accidents, veteran instructor Dan Gryder says no. Taking a page from the airline world, where there’s a number and a procedure for […]

The GA accident rate has improved dramatically during the past two decades and with it, the stall/spin accident incidence has also decreased. Yet stalls account for nearly 20 percent of all light aircraft fatal accidents, amounting to about 35 a year. In this, the first of five podcasts on the subject of preventing stalls, we […]

Although trying to entice more women into aviation seems like a fairly recent thing, the Ninety-Nines, founded by Amelia Earhart in 1929, have been doing it for 90 years and they’re not done yet. Ninety-Nines International President Jan McKenzie spoke with AVweb’s Russ Niles.

Infinite Flight is a mobile flight simulation and air traffic control app available for Android and iOS devices. In this AirVenture 2019 podcast, co-founder and CEO Laura Laban and digital marketing director Jason Rosewell told AVweb more about how it works and where it’s headed in the future.

In this podcast, Capt. Tammie Jo Shults talks with AVweb at AirVenture 2019 about discovering aviation, her experiences as a naval aviator, and handling emergencies in the air. Shults was pilot in command on Southwest Flight 1380, which experienced an uncontained engine failure in April 2018. Her book about her life and aviation career, Nerves […]

Alaka’i Technologies debuted Skai, a hydrogen fuel cell powered electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) system last May. In this podcast, recorded at AirVenture, Alaka’i Technologies board member and former NASA director Bruce Holmes discusses fuel cell technology, the challenges involved with certifying a new kind of aircraft and the company’s approach to the urban […]

At AirVenture 2018, Opener was an attention getter at the Innovation Showcase with its fixed wing all-electric VTOL aircraft. With over 23,000 miles flown and plenty of funding, the company is moving closer to certification. For an update on the project, AVweb’s Ashley Anglisano caught up with Opener’s President Ben Diachun and project director Alan […]