Podcast

The Super Van 900, a Cessna Caravan with a 900-horsepower Garrett engine, was granted a supplementary type certificate (STC) by the FAA recently, and interest is strong in the souped-up Caravan. IFR magazine editor and AVweb contributor Jeff Van West spoke with Texas Turbines CEO Bobby Bishop about how more ponies help this workhorse. This […]

Times are tough all around, but industry icon Mooney Airplane Company says it’s looking to the future. AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke with Director of Marketing Wayne Fischer about retooling for a changing market. This podcast is brought to you by Bose Corporation and WxWorx XM WX Satellite Weather. Duration: File Size: download here

The Sun ‘n Fun airshow in Lakeland, Fla., is the first big GA show of the season here in the U.S., and it start this Monday, running April 21 to 26. John Burton, president of the Sun ‘n Fun organization, gives us a preview of this year’s highlights, along with some pointers for pilots planning […]

When the pilot of a King Air 200, with five passengers, bound from Naples, Fla. to Jackson, Miss., died at the controls on Easter Sunday, a passenger who was a low-time single pilot stepped up, along with air traffic controllers at Miami Center and Fort Myers approach to bring a successful conclusion to the emergency. […]

In sheer physical size, the B-29 Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, was the largest restoration project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. In this long-form podcast, NASM’s Anne McCombs and Bob McLean explain what it took to get the airplane into the same shape it […]

International Communications Group lives at the leading edge of cockpit communications, and now they’ve developed a way to push e-mail and web browsing into your cockpit over the Iridium satellite network – at broadband speeds. Jeff Saucedo told us all about their NxtMail server (and a few other ICG products) at the AEA Convention in […]

So busy you can’t listen to AVweb podcasts on the ground, but you’d love to catch up on our exclusive interviews while you’re making that cross-country flight? DeCrane Aerospace Audio International has the tech you’ll need to take your iPod aloft, and Marcus Garrett gave our Paul Bertorelli the lowdown at this year’s AEA Convention […]

Just moments before addressing the crowd at this year’s AEA Convention, Cessna’s Jack Pelton spoke with Paul Bertorelli about the role of aircraft makers in this troubled economy and explains why Cessna is determined to take the lead in rebuilding confidence in the industry. Duration: File Size: download here

The first flight of Terrafugia’s roadable aircraft made headlines in the mainstream press last week but left pilots with lots of questions. Test pilot Phil Meteer has all the answers, from explaining the control deflections we saw on AVweb‘s video to predicting that there are still “significant” changes ahead for the aircraft design as the […]

General aviation is used to taking potshots from groups not familiar with its value, but when Jet Blue tried to capitalize on the portrayal of business travelers as “bigwigs,” it was too much for the Alliance for Aviation Across America. AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke with the Alliance’s Selena Shilad. Duration: File Size: download here