Video of the Week

Airbus has a fleet of highly modified A300s called Belugas that it uses to fly components from factory to factory for final assembly. In this week’s scan of the web for interesting aviation videos, we found this one by mraviationguy who caught some great footage of a Beluga pilot expertly handling a crosswind Hawarden in […]

For news outlets equipped with gyro-stabilized copter cans, gear-up landing videos are a staple. One that occurred in San Jose last week was caught from three angles. As an added bonus, more footage from a gear-up in Phoenix. Both generate some takeaways. For more on gear-up landings, see this AVweb video.

Equipping a large commercial GA fleet for the ADS-B mandate is both costly and challenging, especially for operators that have specialized aircraft. One operator in Rhode Island—Simmons Aviation Services—has a large fleet of aircraft used for aerial advertising, plus vintage warbirds. It recently certified aircraft with the budget-based ($1999) uAvionix tailBeacon ADS-B product, but not […]

Basketball star Kobe Bryant was killed in the crash of a chartered Sikorsky S-76B helicopter on Jan. 26, 2020. This high-profile crash, which killed his daughter Gianna and seven others, is causing a re-examination of how Part 135 helicopters are operated. In this video, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli examines the risks.

Anyone who has visited Oshkosh has heard the unique exhaust song of the Rolls-Royce Merlin. Nearly 150,000 of these iconic 12-cylinder engines were manufactured, some in the U.S. as the Packard V-1650. In this fascinating documentary, the assembly of the engine’s 11,000-plus parts is described in rich detail. (Credit King Rose Archives.)

There’s a reason why propellers are recommended for overhaul by service hours and calendar time, but they’re often one of the most neglected systems on the aircraft. In this video, Aviation Consumer editor Larry Anglisano tours Sensenich Propeller Services in Gainesville, Georgia, to see how it’s done.

Diamond Aircraft builds composite airplanes in two factories, one in Austria and one in London, Ontario. In this long-form video, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli reports on how the Ontario plant turns out the DA40 single—both the Lycoming and Austro diesel versions—and the impressive DA62 twin.

Daher’s TBM is known to be blazing fast, the perfect airplane for this fun Top Gun spoof by Daniel Streit, including fabulous Swiss mountain scenery, a motorcycle clip and the unforgettable Ghostrider tower flyby. Featured here with permission of the author. 6

The $2.75 million Cirrus Vision Jet G2, for second-generation, remains in a class by itself because it’s the only certified single-engine turbofan-powered personal airplane, and it has the Cirrus CAPS whole-airplane parachute. For 2020, the Vision Jet has a few sizable changes including RVSM compliance for a 31,000-foot operating ceiling, increased payload, a 1200-mile max […]

In our last AVweb episode, we made a hash of explaining how you actually can fly under Class C airspace without ADS-B. This week’s video clarifies that using some unusual airspace east of Los Angeles.