Paul Bertorelli News Today

Cirrus goes big with its video stream rollout of the Gen 7 SR Series.

UND has gone back to 100LL from UL94 after citing an issue with "exhaust valve recession" in the Lycoming engines that power its fleet.

This week's letters brought comments from readers about the Pipistrel Velis Electro, close-proximity airports, and Trevor Jacob.

Long-time senior editor Kate O’Connor has been named editor-in-chief of AVweb.com, capping a sparkling writing and editing career at America’s leading independent aviation news and information resource

AVweb Mike Collins at the wheel squires around Bill Kight and Marc Norton at Sun n Fun in 1993. I found him standing in mud up to his shins, cussing out loud, the inglorious result of walking backward into a soggy tobacco field to get just the right angle for a shot. We had both arrived at a country intersection, the scene of a car accident. I was a volunteer for our local rescue squad and I saw this tall, skinny guy with a black beard. He had two or three Nikons slung around hi...

This week's letters brought comments from readers about the coming end of Learjet production, the Bell X-1 and plans to attend Sun 'n Fun.

HY4 aircraft appears to be based on Pipistrel Aircraft’s (Ajdovščina, Slovenia) innovative Taurus G4, which married two of the company’s electric gliders into a twin-boom platform with a single electric motor in the center section wing. The G4 won the $1.35 million NASA Green Flight Challenge award in 2011.  According to Bertorelli’s article, project leader Josef Kallo describes the HY4 as a sixth-generation hydrogen drive that uses a fuel cell to power a single 160-hp electric...