Podcast

EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski, veteran of a quarter-century’s worth of AirVenture extravaganzas, updates AVweb‘s Mary Grady with a look at what to expect from the 2012 edition, just a few weeks away. Duration: File Size: download here

A team at the University of Maryland hopes to fly their 105-foot, 76-pound human-powered helicopter for at least 60 seconds and up to an altitude of 10 feet. Glenn Pew speaks with Dr. Inderjit Chopra about the project’s advances and, if it’s successful, what’s next. Duration: File Size: download here

Amid numerous changes for the airlines in recent years is one you might not expect: Customer satisfaction is up. Paul Bertorelli asked David VanAmburg from the American Customer Satisfaction Index to explain. Duration: File Size: download here

Alan Klapmeier, CEO of Kestrel, talks with AVweb‘s Mary Grady for updates on the design of the company’s new turboprop, plans for new facilities to produce the airplane, and what visitors to EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh can expect to see at his exhibit. Duration: File Size: download here

How you experience historic aircraft may soon change. AVweb‘s Glenn Pew spoke with Collings Foundation director of marketing Hunter Chaney about an FAA exemption — currently under review — that Collings says it depends on to bring historic aircraft to the public. Duration: File Size: download here

Air traffic control thought so, but Kansas City pilot and storm chaser Caleb Elliott says light aircraft have an important role to play in studying storm behavior. He spoke with AVweb‘s Russ Niles. Duration: File Size: download here

A new company called Flight of the Century has set a goal to fly an electric airplane from New York to Paris non-stop by 2014. To solve the problem of limited battery life, the aircraft will be recharged en route by docking with drones. AVweb‘s Mary Grady spoke with Flight of the Century CEO Chip […]

Jim McCartney’s decades-long career as an airline pilot spanned bankruptcies, deregulation, and forced retirement. He captured his story in a book that he wrote with his sister, Angela McCartney Miro, before his death earlier this year. It offers a glimpse into the cockpit of an earlier age. This podcast is brought to you by Bose […]

Seacor Holdings, a large U.S. multi-national company, has several aviation business investments in China, and one of them just made a strategic partnership with Avpro, a large business jet broker, to better serve its customer base. AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke with Seacor’s chairman of the board, Charles Fabrikant, about the opportunities in the Chinese aviation […]

Cessna introduced its newest, biggest jet, the Citation Longitude, at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) this week. AVweb‘s Mary Grady spoke with Brad Thress, Cessna’s senior vice president for business jets, from the show floor in Geneva to learn more details about the design and some of the choices that were made. […]