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At its Gunskirchen, Austria, factory, Rotax celebrated both 25 years of producing the 912 series engine and the 50,000th engine in the series. AVweb was there and prepared this video report with the company's Francois Tremblay.

The Thai Air Force extended the life of its fleet of DC-3s by decades with their conversion to Basler BT-67s. They're used for everything from troop transport to making it rain.

At AirVenture 2014 in Oshkosh, Lightspeed Aviation is showing its new PFX ber-noise-canceling headset. In this brief product tour, Lightspeed's Allan Schrader explains how the technology works.

Garmin Connext uses the Flight Stream wireless interface transceiver for sending and receiving data between tablet computers and Garmin panel mount avionics, including the GNS430W and 530W navigators and the GDL88 ADS-B system. Garmin's Jessica Koss gives an overview of the system from AirVenture 2014 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

At AirVenture 2014, Continental Motors introduced its latest diesel powerplant, the CD300. Rhett Ross told AVweb how the company intends to manufacture and market the new engine.

Snagged in the FAA certification process for a couple of years, Avidyne announced at AirVenture 2014 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that it has won final FAA approval for the IFD540 GPS - a direct slide-in replacement for the Garmin GNS530W. Avidyne's Tom Harper updates the status in this AVweb Product Minute video.

BendixKing has a new integrated avionics suite for the turboprop market. The AeroVue, which trickles down from advanced avionics found in transport category and business jets, is a three-screen system with autopilot, dual AHRS, cursor-control device (CCD), plus cabin internet connectivity. In this video, Aviation Consumer's Larry Anglisano takes a look at the system in BendixKing's King Air, which was on display at AirVenture 2014 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

These days, there are dozens of POV or action cams to challenge the market-leading GoPro, including Garmin's VIRB. AVweb did an extensive comparison of both of those cameras and prepared this video report.

Like many aviation companies, Lycoming is involved in the world of unmanned systems, and as part of that program, it recently unveiled its smallest engine, the EL-005. AVweb recently visited the factory and got a tour of this interesting little engine.

Since this spring, Garmin has been delivering the new G5000 to the OEM market, but now it's starting to offer retrofits in the from of a Beechjet 400/400A mod. Garmin's Scott Frye gave AVweb a briefing on the new program.