Podcast: China Can Be a Good Place to Do Business By Russ Niles 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 business.
Podcast: Cessna's New Citation Longitude By Mary Grady 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.
Podcast: EBACE Begins with Europe in Turmoil By Russ Niles Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia offers his thoughts on the show, Hawker Beechcraft's many options and how Cessna and Embraer are matching up. He spoke with AVweb's Russ Niles.
Podcast: OpenAirplane Reinvents Aircraft Rentals By Glenn Pew AVweb speaks to OpenAirplane's Rod Rakic for more details about his company's plan to make renting aircraft easier and more affordable for pilots — and more profitable for aircraft owners.
Podcast: John Sheehan 'Retires' from IAOPA By Russ Niles For 15 years, John Sheehan has marshaled the combined might of 69 national pilot organizations as the secretary general of the International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. On May 1, he retired and spoke with AVweb's Russ Niles about the successes in those 15 years and the challenges ahead.
Podcast: Electric Flight Update with Brien Seeley By Mary Grady The CAFE Foundation, which works to advance the technology of efficient flight, held its annual electric aircraft symposium over the weekend, in Santa Rosa, California. AVweb's Mary Grady spoke with CAFE President Brien Seeley for a recap of the event's highlights.
Podcast: Eclipse, Sikorsky Deal Solid By Russ Niles Despite some provocative comments from a senior executive with Sikorsky's parent company UTC last week, the relaunch of the Eclipse very light jet is very much a joint operation between Eclipse and Sikorsky. Eclipse CEO Mason Holland spoke with AVweb's Russ Niles about how the two companies are working together to build the new Eclipse 550.
Podcast: This Is the Year of the B-52 By Glenn Pew Sixty years since first flight, every combat operation since Vietnam and still going strong, the Boeing B-52 is an active-duty eight-engine legend. AVweb's Glenn Pew speaks with Major David Donatelli of the Commanders Action Group of the Air Force Global Strike Command about the campaign "Year of the B-52."
Podcast: 'Hell Above Earth' By Mary Grady A new nonfiction book by Stephen Frater unearths a twisting tale about a B-17 bomber pilot of German descent who flew for the U.S. in World War II, the co-pilot under secret orders from the FBI to kill him, and the lasting friendship they shared despite all the intrigue. Frater spoke with AVweb's Mary Grady about how he tracked down the story.
Podcast: Diamond's Edge -- AI and Fly-by-Wire Are Coming By Paul Bertorelli Diamond CEO Christian Dries discusses artificial intelligence and its practical application in a new helicopter design and targets 2014 to begin fly-by-wire integration into the company's general aviation designs.
