Video of the Week

After a two-year COVID-caused hiatus, the DeLand Sport Aviation Showcase opened this week to off-and-on rain and light clouds. As with Sun ‘n Fun and AirVenture, exhibitors were also down slightly from 2019. But one thing that isn’t down is sales for most companies AVweb talked to.

Slovenian airplane maker Pipistrel certified the first commercial-use electric airplane last year and is finding some buyers in Europe. Even as the Velis model trickles into the U.S. on a demonstration basis, it’s not clear when it will be certified by U.S. regulators. In this video shot at the DeLand Sport Aviation Showcase, Pipistrel rep […]

Last week, my various inboxes filled up with links to the video posted here, attached to the question, “have you seen this?” How could I not? Shortly after it was posted, it rocketed around the skydiving village like a rubber check in a tile bathroom. I spent a couple of days last week doing intensive […]

In that grand tradition of American capitalism, airlines and airplane makers have spared no effort in marketing films about the wonders of modern airline travel. One of the most ambitious was this promo produced for Pan Am’s Clipper service with the then-new Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. We clipped it from the Classic Airliners channel. As it […]

Every pilot likes to assume a certain immunity from stalls and the confidence is not misplaced. Nonetheless, stalls continue to account for many accidents and in this video—complete with dancing graphics and flapping birds—AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli describes how he blundered into an incipient stall for the simple reason of not paying attention to the business […]

There’s a reason why the Cessna Citation Excel is in demand on the current used mid-sized business jet market. It’s reliable and has good performance and a comfortable cabin. But many aging Excels are in need of avionics, interior and paint upgrades. As a result, three high-level retired Cessna executives started Citation Partners—a company that […]

At NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas, Honeywell was showing off its Anthem cockpit display system. While most of the digital flight decks offer limited customization, the Anthem system is flexible enough to allow extensive display customization, to include controllers from other manufacturers. In addition to eye-popping graphics, the Anthem display offers a massive moving map option […]

Textron Aviation recently unveiled its next-generation Citation models with the M2 Gen2 and XLS Gen2. AVweb took a look at the cabin-focused updates on the aircraft at the 2021 National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas.

Main-ship battery power for turbine applications has come a long way in the past few years, and Kansas-based True Blue Power has been busy developing a complete line of lithium-ion batteries and chargers. The company was showing off the line at the 2021 NBAA-BACE show in Las Vegas and Aviation Consumer editor Larry Anglisano got […]

ForeFlight is just as popular in business jet cockpits as it is in smaller cockpits, and the program is called ForeFlight Dispatch. The company was showing some new features at the 2021 NBAA-BACE gathering in Las Vegas and Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano caught up with ForeFlight’s Tyson Weihs for a demo.