Podcast

Audio has been released of an event that took place December 1, 2011, at Chicago Midway Airport and appears to show that Midway tower controllers cleared a Southwest 737 to cross a runway into the path of a jet that was taking off. The event involved Southwest Flight 844, a Boeing 737, and a Learjet. […]

Lithium battery fires can burn hotter and faster than other electrical or cargo fires, rapidly destroying an aircraft’s structure and systems. The FAA realizes the threat and bans the batteries from the cargo holds of passenger-carrying aircraft. It treats cargo aircraft very differently, and the differences are staggering. Glenn Pew speaks with Captain Robert Travis, […]

Capt. Robert Rasmussen, director of the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida, is on the front lines of recovering wrecked aircraft. He talks with AVweb‘s Mary Grady about the recent find of a rare Navy Helldiver off the Florida coast. Duration: File Size: download here

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. When Red Tails, the new George Lucas film about the Tuskegee Airmen, opens on January 20, it will bring a classic aviation story to a new audience. Actor Marcus Paulk, who plays one […]

In studies, full-body-scanning x-ray Backscatter machines have been found ineffective and potentially cancer-causing, and the European Commission has banned the. Here, AVweb‘s Glenn Pew speaks with Ginger McCall, who works with EPIC.org, an organization that has mounted legal challenges to the implementation and use of the machines. This podcast is brought to you by Bose […]

Amelia Rose Earhart, who works as a reporter at a Denver TV station, has been inspired by her famous ancestor to learn to fly. She’s now re-tracing Earhart’s 1937 flight from Oakland to Miami. She talked with AVweb‘s Mary Grady about the flight, what she hopes to achieve, and her big plans for what’s next. […]

The political map in Washington is changing daily, but tucked under all the bombast and rhetoric is a section of the legislation now in play that will be welcome news to the aviation industry. If all goes well in the next few days (and there are no guarantees of that), 100 percent depreciation of equipment […]

Author Richard Bach, who recently started to blog online at RichardBach.com, talks with AVweb‘s Mary Grady about the modern era of barnstorming and the infinite rewards of sharing the gift of flight. This podcast is brought to you by Bose Corporation. Duration: File Size: download here

When ICAS held its annual convention in Las Vegas this week, safety and the economy were top issues on the agenda. John Cudahy talks with AVweb‘s Mary Grady for an update on how the air show world is coping with this year’s string of accidents and ongoing economic challenges. This podcast is brought to you […]