Podcast

AVweb‘s Glenn Pew speaks with Matternet.net team leader Andreas Raptopoulos about a plan to use aviation technology to change the world – again. Duration: File Size: download here

Black Rock City Municipal Airport (88NV) is likely busier than most Nevada GA airports for the next week, but after that it will be gone. AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke with Dean Siracusa, the airport’s communications director, about the airport and the event it supports, Burning Man. Duration: File Size: download here

The FAA is ready to sit down with the light aircraft manufacturers and figure out how to update Part 23, the standard that governs the design of general aviation aircraft. Greg Bowles explains to AVweb‘s Mary Grady how this process will work and what it all means to GA pilots and aircraft buyers. Duration: File […]

It doesn’t matter how many hours you have, flying the aircraft you built — on its maiden flight — is life-altering. We caught up with RV-8 builder Brent Owens hours after the successful completion of his first flight. Here’s what he had to say. Duration: File Size: download here

There aren’t many people in the world who have the privilege of taking the first flight in the aircraft that they built. Brent Owens is one of them. AVweb‘s own experimental driver, Glenn Pew, caught up with Brent the day before first flight. This is that conversation. Duration: File Size: download here

The Aerotrek A240 LSA offers folding wings, a three-blade prop, a 120-mph cruise, precision-welded 4130 chromoly steel tube fuselage and aluminum wings, radio, transponder, and Dynon EFIS – for less than $80,000. They have no corporate marketing division. AVweb caught up with an owner, Scott Spencer, at AirVenture 2011 to find out more. Duration: File […]

Google’s Larry Page has attended three of the CAFE Foundation’s Electric Airplane Symposiums, and now his company is putting up money to help them out. AVweb spoke with CAFE Foundation President Dr. Brien Seeley about what the sponsorship means and how it affects the coming Green Flight Challenge in late September. Duration: File Size: download […]

Pipistrel says its four-seat Panthera will pull a 200-knot cruise from a 200-hp engine over 1,000 nautical miles with full seats in a certified airframe – before 2014. We asked Pipistrel’s Tine Tomazic why people should believe they can do it. This podcast is brought to you by Phillips 66 Aviation and Lightspeed Aviation. Duration: […]

Jeff Skiles gained fame thanks to his participation in the “Miracle on the Hudson” flight, but these days he devotes much of his time to promoting aviation education for youth through programs like Young Eagles and Build A Plane. He spoke with AVweb‘s Mary Grady at EAA AirVenture about why he’s optimistic about career opportunities […]

Don Hillebrand of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Labs spoke with AVweb‘s Mary Grady at EAA AirVenture about the potential of electric flight, as well as other new propulsion alternatives that his lab is studying. This podcast is brought to you by Lightspeed Aviation and Phillips 66 Aviation. Duration: File Size: download here