Video of the Week

In an emerging aircraft refurbishment market, Smithville, Ohio-based Aircraft Sales Inc. stands out with a comprehensive and highly customized rebuild process. In this AVweb video, Aviation Consumer‘s Larry Anglisano presents an inside look at the company’s Pristine Airplane refurbishment process. view on YouTube

If you do your own airplane maintenance, that work will include checking spark plugs. Tempest says checks should include resistance measurements and they’ve developed a little gadget to do that. view on YouTube

AVweb visits Hawker Pacific in Shaghai. view on YouTube

Composite props may be the latest shiny object to make airplanes go, but most of them have wood cores, and the basic wooden prop is enjoying somewhat of a resurgence. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli took a tour of Sensenich’s prop factory in Plant City, Florida to see how these products are made. view on YouTube

Owners who are new to Garmin’s GTN750/GTN650 and G500/G600 avionics systems may not realize that the company offers a training course at their Olathe, Kansas factory support center. Aviation Consumer‘s Larry Anglisano recently took the class and reports on it in this AVweb video. view on YouTube

Responding to the growing demand for ADS-B-capable equipment, BendixKing is rolling out a new Mode-S transponder called the KT-74. AVweb got a tour of it at AirVenture last July. view on YouTube

With a cruise speed of around 270 knots and a price tag of nearly $5 million, the 2013 Pilatus PC-12NG isn’t the fastest or the least expensive single-engine turboprop on the market. It is, however, arguably in a class of its own. That’s because it has a cabin that can carry 1,200 lbs. of payload […]

At an annual fly-in in Connecticut, pilots who design and build their own hot-air balloons gather to fly their aircraft, learn from each other, and try out new ideas. view on YouTube

Game theory is gaining favor as a means of training in all sorts of disciplines, and now Redbird wants to try it with aviation. At the company’s third annual Migration training conference in San Marcos, Texas on Tuesday, Redbird’s Jeff Van West explained the new program. It’s currently in the experimental and testing phase but […]

AVweb’s Tim Cole recently completed a trip to China and the China General Aviation Congress at Xi’an. Here are some closing observations. view on YouTube