Video of the Week

Well, maybe you don’t. But the fact that these exist give the FAA regulatory heartburn nearly as hot as the drone’s flaming stream of gasoline.

A new company called Texas Aircraft is beginning volume production on a light sport aircraft called the Colt. In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli flight trialed the aircraft at the company’s Hondo, Texas, headquarters.

St. Barts, in the eastern Caribbean, is famous for having a short, narrow runway with a tall hill off one end. It’s tricky to get into and more than one pilot has come to grief in trying. In this video, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli reviews a landing that went wrong and why.

Slovenia-based Pipistrel is the only company currently marketing an electric training aircraft. In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli visited the factories in both Slovenia and Italy to learn how the airplanes are made.

Flying the Atlantic in a 75-year-old plus airplane isn’t like a cross country for the $50 hamburger. In this AVweb video, D-Day Squadron’s Doug Rozendaal tells AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli what it took to fly to France and back. And how an engine problem grounded the airplane at Oshkosh.

AVweb’s Kate O’Connor and Paul Bertorelli caught a ride with the Phillips 66 Aerostars at AirVenture 2019. The four-ship precision aerobatics team flies Extra 300Ls and one Extra 330LX.

Among the rarest of the rare restored aircraft is Tom Reilly’s XP82 Twin Mustang. It debuted at AirVenture 2019 and was a crowd favorite. In this AVweb news video, Reilly tells what was involved in the restoration and it’s a pretty incredible story.

Although it took a little doing, KITPLANES editor Paul Dye flew his cool SubSonex personal jet from his home near Reno, Nevada, to AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In this AVweb video, Marc Cook talks to Dye about what the flight was like and how he built the jet in under 90 says.

The latest avionics are usually popular with the crowds at AirVenture and this year is no different. In this video, Larry Anglisano took a look at a handful of products that were standouts on opening day.

Yup, it’s that time of year again. AirVenture 2019 has just started in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and AVweb is covering it, beginning with this golf cart tour of some of the stuff and events happening this week. Paul Bertorelli and Marc Cook took a quick run around the grounds to have a look.