Video of the Week

Whelen Aerospace Technologies (WAT) introduced the newest addition to the Parmetheus product family at Sun ‘n Fun this year. In this video, WAT director of business development Matt Dondoneau talks to AVweb about the G3 PAR 36 and G3 PAR 46 landing lights.

An airplane-loving design student’s senior project gave rise to a family business dedicated to building scaled replica fighters “the right way.” ScaleBirds is a Groton, Connecticut-based company with plans to offer affordable kits for radial- and inline-engined mini-fighters—engineered as sport planes with a high “fun” quotient.

Airshow goers like gadgets, and this year at Sun ‘n Fun Garmin brought two new aviator smartwatches at two price points—the $550 D2 Air X10 and the $1300 flagship D2 Mach 1. For this video, Aviation Consumer Magazine Editor Larry Anglisano stopped by the Garmin booth and got an overview from Garmin’s Pat Coleman.

Daher and Pratt & Whitney Canada were excited to debut their joint project, Daher’s TBM 960 powered by Pratt & Whitney’s PT6E-66XT turboprop. AVweb spoke with Daher’s Nicolas Chabbert and Nick Kanellias at this year’s Sun ‘n Fun Expo.

Thus far, Diamond is the only manufacturer to take Jet-A fueled aircraft diesels seriously, but Tecnam has also entered the fray with the new P2010 TDI with a Continental CD170 engine. It has appeared in the U.S. at AirVenture, but this year it also popped up at Sun ‘n Fun. AVweb interviewed Dave Copeland to […]

This year at Sun ‘n Fun, Textron Aviation introduced several upgrades for its Cessna piston aircraft along with the Beechcraft Baron and Beechcraft Bonanza. Also on display was a cabin mock-up of the new Beechcraft Denali single-engine turboprop. Textron Aviation vice president for piston sales Christopher Crow gives AVweb an overview of both programs in […]

The avionics portion of a homebuilt aircraft project can be both time-consuming and intimidating to some builders, but Dynon has set out to tame that dragon with new prefabricated hardware. The FastTrack hardware—which is also available for the HDX Certified version—takes part of the guesswork out of the critical process of determining where to mount […]

At Sun ‘n Fun 2022, an Australian company called TurbAero was showing off a mock-up of a new, light turboprop engine it proposes to fit into airplanes requiring about 200 HP. Turboprops aren’t known for fuel efficiency, of course, but the company is using recuperative heating to deliver fuel specifics somewhere between a piston engine […]

Flight Design USA brought the first certified production F2 LSA to Sun ‘n Fun 2022, and in this show video Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano caught up with Tom Peghini for a look at the improvements in the airplane since Larry flew the prototype last year.

Space-based ADS-B compliance is back on the table for Canadian airspace, and (just in time for Sun ‘n Fun this year) uAvionix earned STC and TSO approval for its tailBeaconX Diversity ADS-B external transponder. Aviation Consumer’s Editor Larry Anglisano stopped by the uAvionix booth at the show and caught up with Shane Woodson for a […]