Exclusive Video: Legend's New Amphib Floatplane By Paul Bertorelli
American Legend has made a name for itself in the LSA market with well-made Cub clones. At U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring in January, it showed a new amphib LSA that attracted lots of eyeballs. Last week, AVweb flew the amphib, and here's our video report on this new product. It's not just fun to fly; it's insanely fun to fly.
Exclusive Video: A Slip/Skid Lesson from Aviation Safety Magazine By Joseph E. (Jeb) Burnside
If you're a pilot, do you know what the rudder is for? In this short video, Aviation Safety editor-in-chief Jeb Burnside shows the most basic of flying skills: How to keep a turn coordinated.
Exclusive Video: Using a Portable GPS for Valley Flying — TAA Thinking By Jeff Van West IFR magazine's Jeff Van West shows how a portable GPS can be used to evaluate what altitudes will be safe for flying up valleys (without actually changing altitudes) and how to use the GPS while in those valleys to enhance safety and situational awareness.
Exclusive Video: Last Flight of an English Electric Lightning (And Pilot Dave Stock) By Glenn Pew
The crash of a rare and historic English Electric Lightning MK T5 on November 14, 2009 was unique for the history of the model and the renown of its pilot, Dave Stock. Here AVweb compiles historic video and actual event footage to review the event that saw both Stock and the aircraft lost.
Exclusive Video: Advanced Flight Systems' Innovative Display By Paul Bertorelli
Wouldn't it be great if the modern primary flight display integrated the attitude indicator with the HSI? You'd have only one point to scan. Advanced Flight Systems' new EFIS does exactly that. Rob Hickman gives us a tour.
Exclusive Video: AVweb's PiperSport Flight Trial By Paul Bertorelli
At the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida, Piper launched its entry in the light sport market, the Czech-built PiperSport. Aviation Consumer editor Paul Bertorelli got a flight demo on the airplane, and here's his video report.
Exclusive Video: AVweb's G100UL Flight Test By Paul Bertorelli
For nearly three decades, general aviation has been struggling to find an unleaded replacement for 100LL avgas. General Aviation Modifications Inc. (GAMI) in Ada, Oklahoma says they've found it. AVweb's Paul Bertorelli recently took a test flight to see how the new fuel works.
Exclusive Video: How the Amateur Challenger Explosion Video Went Public By Glenn Pew
Twenty-four years after the event, what may be the only amateur video shot of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has gone public. A Presidential commission resolved the accident took place on a day that was 15° colder than any previous launch ... and that the 36° launch-time temperature was a contributing factor.
Exclusive Video: Rotax Engine Essentials By Jeff Van West
What's special about preflighting the Rotax engines found on most LSAs? Tim Brooks, Director of Maintenance for Heart of Virginia Aviation, takes you on a just-the-facts tour explaining what you're looking for and why it's important.
Exclusive Video: U.S. Sport Aviation Expo — Market Realities By Paul Bertorelli AVweb spent a couple of days at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo talking to vendors, customers, and pilots. Here's a short video report of what people are expecting of the LSA market in 2010.
Exclusive Video: Dynon Skyview in the Flight Design CTLS By Paul Bertorelli
Just as you think LSA cockpits can't get any better, along comes something like the Dynon Skyview, a new multi-screen dual sensor EFIS system. AVweb's Paul Bertorelli got a tour of the new product from Flight Design's John Hurst.
Exclusive Video: Garmin's Engine Software for the G3X By Paul Bertorelli
At the U.S. Sport Expo in Sebring, Garmin introduced operating software for the G3X EFIS that allows extensive systems and engine monitoring for LSAs and experimentals. It also announced a new G3X mode interface with the TruTrak autopilot.
Exclusive Video: Build Your Own PC-Based EFIS By Paul Bertorelli
That's what Levil Technology is offering. With the company's basic software, you can run all sort of other software and sensors in a Windows-based EFIS for experimentals.
Exclusive Video: NASA's Puffin VTOL Personal Air Vehicle By Glenn Pew
It's just a computer concept, but what a fun idea. An electric motor-powered single-man carbon fiber aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter but also fly at 300 miles per hour — that's convenient and practical flying and motivation to become a pilot. Of course, it's flying now ... only on your computer screen. AVweb's Glenn Pew takes you on a tour of NASA's demo video.
Exclusive Video: Tecnam's P2008 at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring By Paul Bertorelli
Tecnam is a leading manufacturer in the LSA segment, with several popular models. At the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring this week, they showed off a new model, the P2008. AVweb checked it out in this video.
Exclusive Video: Piper's New LSA Entry — The PiperSport By Paul Bertorelli
At the first day of the 2010 U.S. Light Sport Aircraft Expo in Sebring, Florida, Piper rolled out its new PiperSport LSA entry. AVweb's Jeb Burnside reports on the new airplane.
Exclusive Video: Improving Your Cockpit Lighting By Glenn Pew
Ancient 1970s-style post lights don't cut it for night flying in a modern world. Aviation Consumer's Larry Anglisano explains some of the products available to improve panel lighting.
Exclusive Video: SMA's Cessna Conversion — One Club's Experience By Paul Bertorelli
Despite good fuel specifics and power-to-weight ratio, SMA's Jet A-fueled SR305 hasn't made major inroads into the aircraft engine market. The Paramus Flying Club in New Jersey converted one its 182s to diesel power nearly a year ago, and in this joint report by AVweb and Aviation Consumer magazine, we report on the club's encouraging operational experience.
Exclusive Video: It Takes a Lot of Work to Fly This Badly By Paul Bertorelli
Come along for the ride as Kyle Franklin explains his entertaining Super Cub comedy act and Ben Wabknoski goes flying. Franklin makes it look easy — but trust us, it's anything but.
Exclusive Video: Aviation Safety Dissects the Anatomy of a Cirrus Stall Accident By Paul Bertorelli
So-called over-the-top or cross-control stall accidents have been common among general aviation pilots for years. But no one has ever really documented what happens in one — until now. Thanks the widespread use of glass cockpits, this fatal stall accident has been extraordinarily well-documented by accident investigators and includes a video re-creation. Aviation Safety magazine walks you through the accident in this video.
Exclusive Video: IFR Magazine Discovers How Cape Air Trains It Pilots By Jeff Van West
Come along with the editors of IFR magazine for a quick tour of Cape Air's pilot training program. The program brings green pilots up to snuff for flying the Cessna 402 in single-pilot IFR and relies heavily on cockpit flows and pilot manuals of Cape Air's own design.
Video: Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker — Civilian Warbird Over Illinois By Glenn Pew AVweb reader Scott Ross turned us on to this video of the first civilian registry SU-27 Sukhoi Flanker flying overhead ... in Rockford, Illinois. Scott tells us he "heard it banging around yesterday but didn't realize what it was. RFD's Runway 25 touchdown point is four miles from my house, and we are directly below the ILS. Wish I'd been outside when she went over.
Exclusive Video: IFR Checks Out the Garmin G600 for Instrument Approaches By Jeff Van West IFR Magazine's Jeff Van West flew Garmin's corporate Mooney to see how the G500/600 retrofit glass cockpit performs for instrument approaches. He also looks at how the unit stacks up against fully-integrated systems like the G1000.
Video: Wacos to Brodhead — En Route to the Grass Roots Fly-In By Glenn Pew
Jay Olburg and Scott Ross have cooked up another fantastic video production, this time showcasing a 1941 Waco SRE owned by Steve and Tina Thomas and a '36 ECQ-6 flown by Bob Grist on their way to the Brodhead Grass Roots Fly-In. Enjoy!
Exclusive Video: Product Minutes — New Products at AOPA Summit By Paul Bertorelli
Our cup did runneth over AOPA Summit last week, but we managed some time to shoot another brief video on cool products we saw, including a Cirrus engine modification from Next Dimension, Flightline Systems' new AuRACLE Engine Monitor for legacy twins, a nifty flashlight that's really a glove, and a new Cessna 210 inspection guide from the Cessna Pilots Association.
In this video, veteran Reno Racer Thom Richard tells what it's like to wail around the pylons at Reno in a Formula 1 race aircraft. It's powered by a 100hp O-200, but Invictus — which was on display at AOPA Summit in Tampa this week — is still capable of nearly 250 MPH. It's hot, high-G work, but it's also six minutes of one of the biggest shots of adrenaline in aviation.
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