AVweb's Aviation Audio News Service: Recent Episodes
Timothy H. Cole
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For the past six years, Montana-based Summit Aviation and Eagle Mount Bozeman have run a flight camp for young adult cancer survivors. AVweb’s Kate O’Connor talked with Summit Aviation president Ben Walton, Big Sky Kids camp director Kara Erickson and camp volunteer and participant Nina Garkavi about their experiences organizing and attending the camp. For more information about the camp, visit Summit Aviation’s website.
AeroAngel is a non-profit that provides flights on private jets to help sick children and their families reach distant, life-saving medical care at no cost to the family. In this podcast, organization founder and president Mark Pestal talked with AVweb’s Kate O’Connor about AeroAngel’s mission, operation, and plans for the future.
The aviation industry has long complained that the NTSB takes too long to issue final reports and recommendations on general aviation accidents. In this exclusive AVweb podcast, NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg explains how the agency is speeding things up.
Flying Musicians Association co-founder, CEO and president John Zapp sat down with AVweb to talk about how aviation and music intersect along with the organization’s foundation, operation, and future plans.
Sport Aviation Administrator at DeLand Municipal Airport Jana Filip sat down with AVweb’s Kate O’Connor to discuss the airport’s progress on its new Sport Aviation Village.
Opener was an attention getter at the Innovation Showcase with its fixed wing all-electric VTOL aircraft in 2018. With over 23,000 miles flown and plenty of funding, the company is moving closer to certification. For an update on the project, AVweb’s Ashley Anglisano caught up with Opener’s President Ben Diachun and project director Alan Eustace at AirVenture 2019.
With growth in the single-engine turboprop market hard to come by, Daher nearly doubled its output with its acquisition of the Quest Aircraft Kodiak line in June 2019. As the two companies merge, Daher’s Nicolas Chabbert says in this podcast that he sees expansion opportunities in Kodiak’s Sandpoint factory.
While new aircraft prices remain high Diamond Aircraft is finding significant demand for factory-refurbished older airframes. In this podcast AVweb interviewed Diamond's Ed Hollestelle, manager of after-sales support.
Cat Wren was recently named one of NBAA’s top 40 under 40. She sat down with AVweb’s Kate O’Connor at the 2019 NBAA convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, to talk about how she got involved in the FBO industry, along with her work at Dallas Love Field’s Business Jet Center and the Business Jet Cares charity for veterans.
When the Cirrus first appeared 25 years ago, one of its safety features was a split-incidence, stall resistant wing. Yet the airplane still has a stall accident pattern and one that has a twist: Many of the stalls occur on go-arounds. In this, the fourth of our five-part podcast series on stall awareness and prevention, AVweb spoke to incoming president of the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association Trip Taylor.
Iridium’s Michael Hooper and Jordan Hassin talk with AVweb about the completion of the company’s upgraded satellite network, aerial connectivity, cockpit safety services and its partnership with Aireon on air traffic surveillance.
FlightAware become one of the most popular aviation sites by telling users where airplanes were. It’s now using machine learning to tell them what that means. AVweb spoke to founder and CEO Daniel Baker at NBAA-BACE.
Tamarack Aerospace was rocked by an emergency airworthiness directive that grounded more than 100 Cessna Citations equipped with its active winglet system earlier this year. The AD was based on inaccurate information but undoing all the damage from the chain of errors has taken some time. AVweb spoke with CEO Nick Guida at NBAA-BACE.
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