Podcast

Peter Burkill had been captain of British Airways Flight 38, a Boeing 777 that in 2008 crashed short of the runway at Heathrow with 152 aboard. Everyone got out alive, but that wasn’t the end of it for Burkill. In our earlier podcast, Burkill walked us through the crash; in today’s podcast, he tells his […]

On Saturday, the crew of United Flight 889, a Boeing 777 with 251 passengers and 17 crew, reported they came within 300 feet of an Aeronca Chief while on initial climbout from San Francisco International. As the airliner took off, the tower controller warned the pilot of the Chief, who reported having the 777 in […]

Peter Burkill was captain of British Airways Flight 38, a Boeing 777 with 152 aboard, when it suffered an uncommanded dual engine rollback and crashed short of the runway at Heathrow on January 17, 2008. This is what he experienced, in his words. Related Content:Don’t miss our follow-up podcast with Burkill about the aftermath of […]

AVweb gets a pilot’s perspective on the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor from active United States Marine Corps Osprey pilot Major Wes Spaid, stationed at MCAS New River, Jacksonville, NC. Please forgive the keyboard tapping you may hear at times during the conversation – we assume it came from the public relations officer who monitored our phone […]

Click for larger images Paul Schafer had a nasty cut on his head but was otherwise hardly hurt in an off-airport landing on a logged-off area of an Oregon mountain. He says he planned for it and that made all the difference. Related Content:Preparation pays; Paul Bertorelli blogs about another incredible landing on the AVweb […]

Radek Wyrzykowski, a flight instructor in Norwood, Mass., developed a volunteer mentor program last year to help instrument pilots improve their proficiency, and they loved it. When a web site launched and offered to help others start local chapters, it took off “like a storm,” Wyrzykowski says. He talks with AVweb‘s Mary Grady about how […]

Children all over the U.S. are being shown opportunities in aviation thanks to some enlightened teachers, and the late famed test pilot Scott Crossfield was one of them when he was in school. Crossfield established an award to recognize those teachers’ efforts, and AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke with his daughter, Sally Crossfield Farley, about this […]

Topics in our interview with NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman include the Board’s perhaps surprising safety findings regarding small light aircraft and glass cockpit technology; Hersman’s aviation background; thinking outside the box; how the Board interacts with crash victims’ families (specifically Colgan Flight 3407); FAA/NTSB interaction; and more. Duration: File Size: download here

AVweb speaks with director of the Unmanned Aircraft System Center for Research, Education and Training at the University of North Dakota, Jeff Kappenman, to hear his thoughts on how unmanned vehicles are changing aviation and piloting, right now and in the future. Duration: File Size: download here

Michael Goulian, winner of last year’s Bill Barber Showmanship Award for his aerobatic routines, is starting his fifth season with the Red Bull Air Races in a couple of weeks, at the season’s show opener in Abu Dhabi. He talks with AVweb‘s Mary Grady about why some of the races are harder than others, why […]