Video of the Week

Video of the Week: Agrorotors Helicopter Power Line Maintenance

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Man’s best friend is the dog, but the electric companies’ best friend may well be the helicopter. Last week, we saw how helicopters do thankless jobs like tree-trimming around power lines. This week, let’s take a look at some other (pretty impressive) line maintenance that could only be done with […]

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Video of the Week: Helicopter Tree-Trimming

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive “Ever wonder how they trim the trees around power lines?” That’s the question YouTube user daveyonce answers for us in this week’s video clip: Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Don’t forget to send […]

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Video of the Week: Australian TV Cockpit Spoof

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive This week’s flying video comes from an Australian comedy troupe who take us inside the cockpit of flight simulator to talk to airline “pilots.” (Did we mention how thankful we are that this is just a simulator?) Credit Where It’s Due Update:Big thanks to Craig O’Connor, who found this clip […]

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Sun ‘n Fun Video Round-Up

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive This week, we’re taking a brief hiatus from reader-recommended videos to point out two videos produced on-the-fly (and largely on-the-run) by AVweb‘s Glenn Pew over the last couple of days at the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Florida. We shot quite a bit of video at the show, so […]

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Video of the Week: Heritage Flight at Sun ‘n Fun 2006

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Sun ‘n Fun 2007 kicks off today, but before we roll out the carpet on this year’s fun, let’s take a quick look back at last year’s with a video montage of the 2006 air show heritage flight, courtesy of YouTube‘s mig8769. (Music: Coldplay’s “Clocks,” from A Rush of Blood […]

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