Video of the Week

Textron Aviation recently unveiled its next-generation Citation models with the M2 Gen2 and XLS Gen2. AVweb took a look at the cabin-focused updates on the aircraft at the 2021 National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas.

Main-ship battery power for turbine applications has come a long way in the past few years, and Kansas-based True Blue Power has been busy developing a complete line of lithium-ion batteries and chargers. The company was showing off the line at the 2021 NBAA-BACE show in Las Vegas and Aviation Consumer editor Larry Anglisano got […]

ForeFlight is just as popular in business jet cockpits as it is in smaller cockpits, and the program is called ForeFlight Dispatch. The company was showing some new features at the 2021 NBAA-BACE gathering in Las Vegas and Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano caught up with ForeFlight’s Tyson Weihs for a demo.

The NBAA-BACE national convention is back in Las Vegas after a one-year hiatus, and the mood is positive. In this video Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano and AVweb Senior Editor Kate O’Connor share their perspectives after walking the convention floor and the aircraft static display on opening day.

Garmin earned an STC for retrofitting its G5000 integrated avionics suite in the Cessna Citation Excel/XLS, an upgrade that gives these workhorses a sizable boost in capability and resale value. Larry Anglisano caught up with Garmin’s Dave Brown at the NBAA-BACE 2021 convention in Las Vegas for a product tour.

A year ago, I shot and edited this video in moral support of my friend Christy Hansen, who was struggling to care for her husband David Scott Parker, a victim of ALS. Dave Parker died on March 6, 2021. He was 61. He was an engineer at NASA and participated in many of the agency’s […]

In the early days of aviation, a crosswind landing was kind of an unknown thing. That’s because flying fields were large enough squares or circles to point the airplane directly into the wind or takeoff for landing. That standard persisted well into the 1930s until paved runways became more or less standard, at least at […]

We continue to hear reports from readers being quoted shocking increases in aircraft insurance premiums. We have no reason to believe this is about to change as revealed in this insurance roundtable discussion conducted by Aviation Consumer editor Larry Anglisano, which first appeared earlier this year.

The word “accessible” and “jet aircraft” don’t belong in the same sentence, but the SubSonex mini-jet probably comes closest to the idea. In this video, KITPLANES editor at large Paul Dye take us on a flight in the SubSonex jet he built. The airplane is a good performer albeit one with short legs. Paul covers […]

When I was a kid, cardboard had just been invented, but video cameras hadn’t been so there’s no record of my kid-size paper airplane constructs quite so entertaining as this brilliant film by Chris Castor and his son, Kai. The 2017 two-minute short has won numerous awards and when you watch it—which I’m sure you […]