Video of the Week

As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing on the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, AVweb prepared a look at some of thousands of photos that mission yielded. Here’s the grand adventure in two minutes and 30 seconds.

Music has never been married to machinery more majestically than in Phillip Sheppard’s The Launch. The composition was written for the 2007 British documentary on the Apollo program called In the Shadow of the Moon. Copyright Channel Four and Phillip Sheppard.

Getting to the Moon was one thing, but NASA designers had to design a way to safely brake a capsule traveling at 36,000 feet per second without frying the spacecraft or crushing the crew. This NASA film posted by AIRBOYD explains how they did it.

There are plenty of aging legacy jets with maintenance-intensive avionics nearly ready for fresh avionics, and Garmin is on it. Two-plus years in the making, it recently completed the expensive STC for the G5000 integrated avionics and autopilot for Cessna Citation Excel/XLS business jets—a favorite among a wide variety of operators. In this video Aviation […]

Ever wonder how a radial engine goes together, especially how those seven or nine connecting rods all merge at the crankshaft? Grab some coffee and sit through this master class video by Dan Cabral and you’ll find out. Carbral is a product design engineer and used Keyshot to render this animation and After Effects to […]

Daher’s factory in Tarbes, France, is one of the most modern aerospace facilities in the world. In this long-form video, AVweb explains how they build the TBM turboprop.

How do you survive landing an airplane in a tree? Fly it as slow as it will go and carry three ways to summon help. That worked pretty well for 79-year-old John Gregory of McCall, Idaho. The flight training site flym8.com summarized the crash in this Best of the Web video. On a night flight […]

Dynon Avionics has an STC for installing the Certified SkyView HDX in Cessna 172 Skyhawks (and also for some Beech Bonanza models), which in the end makes for an all-electric, all-glass ultra-modern avionics suite. To see what it really takes to make the transformation, Aviation Consumer magazine Editor Larry Anglisano followed a SkyView project in […]

Concluding our D-Day commemoration coverage, here’s a video AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli shot last year on a visit to Utah Beach.

As the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy continues, the AFP News Agency filed this short video of jumps from a pair of the C-47 aircraft flown in for the event. Later commemorative jumps included some 200 paratroopers.