Best Of The Web: Chinook Helicopter Plucks Crashed CL-215 From Wilderness

Buffalo Airways in Canada's Northwest Territories is known for its can-do attitude, and when one of its CL-215 waterbombers was in a mishap on...

Best Of The Web: Duxford’s Unique Bf 109

Great Britain's Imperial War Museum at Duxford has one of the best collections of World War II aircraft to be found anywhere and the...

Best Of The Web: Stunning Alaska Flight

To go along with Paul Berge's ruminations about airplane sounds, we offer this stunning short on flying a DHC-2 Beaver in Alaska. It's from...

What It’s Like To Race A Hydrogen Balloon Across The US

Last week, 17 hydrogen balloons departed Albuquerque in the Gordon Bennett gas balloon for points east. In this interview, AVweb's Paul Bertorelli talked to...

Best Of The Web PSA: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate

One of our favorite YouTube channels is Growler Jams, produced by EA-18G pilot callsign Pail. He flies the Growler, the Navy's state-of-the-art electronic warfare...

Decarbonize Aviation? Good Luck To Us

With weather disasters lined up like airliners on final to LaGuardia, news on climate change is a constant. And with aviation the most energy-intensive...

OSIRIS-REx Mission Explained

After a seven-year mission to a remote carbonaceous asteroid called Bennu, a small sample container blazed through the Earth's atmosphere Sunday morning returning the...

Cirrus Unmasks The New SR10 (But Not For The U.S.)

Clean-sheet airplanes don't come along very often, but Cirrus revealed one this week, a three-seat trainer to be called the SR10. But ... there's...

Best Of The Web: Falling Out Of The SR-71 At 78,000 Feet

Although retired for a quarter century, Lockheed’s SR-71 remains the stuff of legend. It flew higher and faster than any other air-breathing aircraft of...

Paul Dye: What It Was Like To Bring The Shuttle Home From Orbit

Former NASA Senior Flight Director Paul Dye describes the Space Shuttle as the most amazing winged aircraft ever built. Who could argue the point?...
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Video Of The Week: Garmin GNS 430: Throwaway Or Keeper?

Despite false rumors and misinformation that the hugely popular Garmin GNS-series navigators are at the end of their service life, Garmin says that 99...