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AVweb’s weekly submersion into what’s new in general aviation uncovered news of everything from a new Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame inductee through a Canadian flight safety contest, an SMS program for EMS transport to a new line of high performance brakes that can be retrofitted onto Cirrus Aircraft. Charlie Johnson, President and COO of […]

I suspect if you could somehow get a full overview of the number and type of unmanned aircraft in use today and the companies involved in their manufacture, the response would be: Wow, I never imagined. I am constantly running into people in the aviation business who are directly or indirectly involved in UAS projects. […]

Like many aviation companies, Lycoming is involved in the world of unmanned systems, and as part of that program, it recently unveiled its smallest engine, the EL-005. AVweb recently visited the factory and got a tour of this interesting little engine. view on YouTube

While there is currently no backlog of certification applications at the FAA, the agency says it’s changing the way it processes those applications. The new process replaces “project sequencing” with a system the FAA says “offers applicants increased predictability and a commitment to a response time for the review of the applicant’s compliance data.” The […]

Letter of the Week:Buy a Good Pulse Oximeter I am 85 years old and have a lung condition. I had a pulse oximeter for years, and it normally indicated a saturation level of around 92 to 94 percent. It was one of the American-made units and cost about $150. Eventually it quit, and when I […]

Last July, the FAA told a Congressional committee that it would not meet the December 31, 2015 deadline mandated by federal law to simplify and streamline aircraft certification regulations-FAR Part 23. The announcement, causing some members of the committee to unload on the unfortunate FAA messenger, had deeper import than just another report that the […]

There’s nothing quite like the Grumman Tiger. On not much gas, the airplane is moderately fast, fun to fly and has that sporty canopy, which can be opened in flight.Our Refurb of the Month is Paul Curs’ 1977 AA5B. Here’s his report. “She started out in 1977 as N81169 and had three previous owners – […]

When I was at the Pipistrel factory in Slovenia last April, the techs were patiently amused while I wrapped a wing-mounted GoPro camera with a safety layer of duct tape. I’d stuck the thing under the wing with the standard GoPro 3M pressure sensitive base. “You know,” one of them said, “we never do that. […]

These days, there are dozens of POV or action cams to challenge the market-leading GoPro, including Garmin’s VIRB. AVweb did an extensive comparison of both of those cameras and prepared this video report. view on YouTube

Continental Motors Services (CMS)-a division of Continental Motors Group-announcedThursday (PDF) that it has entered into an agreement with Aircraft Specialties Lubricants (ASL) to jointly evaluate the claimed benefits of ASLs CamGuard, an aviation oil additive. The evaluation program will be on engines overhauled or repaired by CMS (formerly Mattituck) to demonstrate merits of pairing the […]