Video of the Week

The 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) is underway in Orland, Florida. AVweb’s Kate O’Connor and Mark Phelps join Aviation Consumer magazine Editor-in-Chief Larry Anglisano at the show to talk about what’s happening in business aviation.

There are plenty of aging jets and turboprops that are still good airplanes, but many need affordable modern flight management systems with precision GPS approach capability that can display on the existing EFIS. Avidyne has a solution with its Atlas retrofit FMS and it was showing the system at the 2022 NBAA-BACE convention in Orlando, […]

If you’ve tried to visualize what your aircraft would look like with new paint colors you know it’s not nearly as easy as it seems. But Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings has a new paint planning utility to start the project in the right direction so you’ll be better prepared to work with scheme designers and paint […]

There are plenty of aging turboprops in need of avionics upgrades and Garmin has a long and growing list of STC approvals for its retrofit flight displays, engine monitoring system, navigators and GFC 600 autopilot. Aviation Consumer magazine Editor-in-Chief and AVweb contributor Larry Anglisano caught up with Garmin’s Dave Brown at the NBAA-BACE 2022 gathering […]

Today, Oct. 14, is the 75th anniversary of Chuck Yeager’s landmark supersonic flight in the Bell X-1. The flight occurred over what is now Edwards Air Force Base but what was a windblown and desolate Lake Muroc, California. In this video, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli takes a deep dive into the aircraft, its systems and operation.

Mariano Rosales visits the International Cessna 195 Club’s annual convention in Joliet, Illinois, on the airplane’s 75th anniversary.

As with real estate, with hurricanes and airports, location is everything. This security camera footage from Ft. Myers, Florida, during Hurricane Ian on Sept. 28 obtained by CNBC dramatically shows how fast storm surge can inundate normally dry land. Ft. Myers and Naples were, unluckily, located on the southern eyewall of Ian as it came […]

The years between the world wars are widely considered the Golden Age of flight. In the midst of it, Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic, air races were wildly popular, aircraft were making huge strides in performance and safety and passenger flights were accessible, if not cheap. Americans couldn’t get enough of airplanes and this was […]

Aircraft engines, for obvious reasons, are supposed to be reliable, but having one tank is a recurring nightmare for many pilots. How often does it happen? Often enough, but as AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli reveals in this video, the risk is not really as high as many of us imagine and more than half of engine […]

On Sept. 4, 2022, 10 people were killed when a turbine Otter en route from Friday Harbor to Renton, Washington, crashed off Whidbey Island. In this video summary, Juan Brown of the blancorilirio channel covers what’s known about the accident and some potential wear and corrosion issues with older Otters operated on floats.