Metal Magic: Fixing Mistakes And Making Adjustments
People who build airplanes sometimes tend toward the obsessive in aiming for perfection. But everyone makes mistakes and in this continuation of KITPLANES' video...
Best Of The Web: The Real Paul Tibbets
Even pilots with only a casual knowledge of World War II will know who Paul Tibbets was. We’ve all seen the famous photo, frozen...
Pipistrel Velis Flight Trial: Cool Airplane, Not For U.S. Market
Pipistrel's Velis, the first certified electric airplane, is a technical tour de force. But its legs are far too short to make a realistic player in the U.S. market.
Best Of The Web: A Great Save Documented
The sands of time have all but buried one of the great aircraft saves of all time: Reeve Aleutian Flight 8. This week’s Best...
AVweb Classic: Reviewing The Cirrus CAPS Record
The Cirrus line of aircraft have been flying for 20 years and although most people in aviation know they have full aircraft parachutes, it's...
Best Of The Web: Pilot Sucked Out Of Airplane
A YouTube video widely derided as a pilot faking an engine failure so he could bail out of his stricken airplane was in fact...
Best Of The Web: Postcrash Advice On Survival Gear
Last November, Maxime Compagnon crashed his Zlin Aviation Savage Cruiser in the Austrian Alps after encountering an unseen cable at 9700 feet. In this...
Why Electric Airplanes Face Such A Tough Haul: Joby Edition
Electric airplanes are coming at us a mile a minute with claims that seem to defy the laws of physics and maybe even Ohm's...
How the Webb Space Telescope Will Unlimber Itself
If all goes as planned, the world's most ambitious telescope—not just space telescope but any telescope—will launch this week on an Arianspace booster from...
KITPLANES Video: Learn To Love Step Drilling
Even if you're not building an airplane, you probably have need to bore holes in metal from time to time. In this continuing series...