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AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

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An aviation podcast by aviation geeks for anyone who looks up when they hear an airplane fly overhead. Listen in as Ian Petchenik and Jason Rabinowitz bring you aviation news, views, and special guests every Friday. If you're a new avgeek…

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The crash of N722BD 2026-11-06 · 46m
The pieces are worth more than the whole 2026-10-30 · 50m
Certified at last 2026-10-23 · 36m
A critical path faces its greatest challenge yet 2026-10-16 · 65m
Running a decade behind to avoid the glitches 2026-10-09 · 53m
flydubai flight FZ1073 2026-10-02 · 56m
The difference a millisecond makes 2026-09-25 · 54m
The CVR makes it worse 2026-09-18 · 51m
The Miami runway overrun 2026-09-11 · 58m
“Looking into” that low flypast 2026-09-04 · 52m
And we’re back 2026-08-28 · 53m
Goodyear Blimp Chief Pilot Michael Dougherty 2026-08-14 · 79m
The RISE of the Open Fan 2026-08-07 · 53m
Xavier Pepin, Ultra Long Range Pilot 2026-07-31 · 46m
A Whale of a time 2026-07-24 · 39m
This feels eerily similar 2026-07-17 · 48m
How the Farnborough Airshow comes together 2026-07-10 · 58m
About that low, low pass by the 777 2026-07-03 · 52m
Transferring that risk elsewhere 2026-06-26 · 52m
Progress, but to what end? 2026-06-19 · 46m
17 years without a license 2026-06-12 · 46m
Eight hours to nowhere 2026-06-05 · 53m
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should 2026-05-29 · 31m
“So that started this on the wrong trajectory to begin with” 2026-05-22 · 51m
The man collecting Spirit’s pieces 2026-05-15 · 76m
Extra exits, bread trucks, and bankruptcies 2026-05-08 · 55m
Humanoids handling your bags? 2026-05-01 · 47m
We’re worried about availability, not just cost 2026-04-24 · 56m
An unserious proposal 2026-04-17 · 53m
AvTalk Episode 365: Bag fees, bag fees, bag fees 2026-04-10 · 52m
Emergency management mode 2026-04-03 · 56m
AC8646 collides with an ARFF truck on the runway 2026-03-27 · 63m
Beware tall elk and low flying hog hunters 2026-03-20 · 56m
When saving money costs lives 2026-03-13 · 56m
War shuts down Middle East airspace 2026-03-06 · 44m
Reading them the ROTOR Act 2026-02-27 · 43m
Not how you want the day to go 2026-02-20 · 52m
Frickin’ drones with frickin’ laser beams 2026-02-13 · 56m
Finally, a 25 hour rule 2026-02-06 · 53m
Systemic failures 2026-01-30 · 53m
Want to buy a 747SP? 2026-01-23 · 43m
Boeing has a banner year 2026-01-16 · 37m
It’s the deicing that’ll get ya 2026-01-09 · 50m
Our favorite conversations from 2025 2026-01-02 · 34m
“Outrageous:” close calls near Venezuela 2025-12-19 · 45m
How do you forget about a 737? 2025-12-12 · 39m
Consider the airspace closed in its entirety 2025-12-05 · 26m
Fatigue cracks, thrust levers, and sand ballast 2025-11-27 · 52m
The A340-600 episode 2025-11-21 · 64m
Reasonable people 2025-11-14 · 54m
UPS flight 2976 2025-11-07 · 38m
It’s a retention issue 2025-10-31 · 54m
Two statistically improbable events 2025-10-24 · 33m
Dry Clean Only 2025-10-17 · 50m
For engines for podcast 2025-10-10 · 50m
What the Nuuk!? 2025-10-03 · 61m
Tunis to Nice, too close 2025-09-26 · 66m
Pay attention, get off the iPad! 2025-09-19 · 33m
No supernatural demonic force 2025-09-12 · 65m
the Plovdiv mystery 2025-09-05 · 48m
They got Nuuk’d 2025-08-29 · 40m
Whinging about windowless window seats 2025-08-22 · 39m
“Ongoing concern” concerns 2025-08-15 · 54m
Stuck on the plane for 28 hours 2025-08-08 · 56m
Acceptable deviation? 2025-08-01 · 52m
Planes where they shouldn't be 2025-07-25 · 42m
Lock the cat in the lav 2025-07-11 · 47m
Overrun by squirrels 2025-07-04 · 45m
Diversions and diversion tactics 2025-06-27 · 46m
The crash of Air India flight 171 2025-06-20 · 50m
Five flights to nowhere 2025-06-13 · 42m
Raccoons on a plane 2025-06-06 · 44m
They bounced the wheel right off 2025-05-30 · 49m
Global gets off the ground 2025-05-23 · 43m
About that Qatari 747 2025-05-16 · 59m
What’s old is Newark again 2025-05-09 · 41m
“All the brain damage of buying a whole airline” 2025-05-02 · 30m
The (Q1) results are in 2025-04-25 · 46m
The helicopter in the Hudson 2025-04-18 · 41m
Growth has “largely stalled” 2025-04-11 · 33m
World Champion Gas Ballooning 2025-04-04 · 49m
Turn off the airport, and turn it on again 2025-03-28 · 55m
It's good to have balloon insurance 2025-03-21 · 29m
No LUV for a broken Heart 2025-03-14 · 44m
“Engulfed in flames” 2025-03-07 · 29m
Tower, how’d that happen? 2025-02-28 · 50m
Upside down, but alive 2025-02-21 · 46m
Everything is delayed 5-10 years 2025-02-14 · 42m
The facts from Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Aktau 2025-02-07 · 47m
Boom booms for the first time 2025-01-31 · 53m
Oh baby baby 2025-01-24 · 42m
A comforting musky scent 2025-01-17 · 47m
Blowout, one year later 2025-01-10 · 56m
Azerbaijan Airlines 8243 and Jeju Air 2216 2025-01-03
Our favorite conversations in 2024 2024-12-27 · 58m
Let’s talk about the drones 2024-12-20 · 44m
Boeing gets going again 2024-12-13 · 41m
He used a helicopter to ask 2024-12-06 · 25m
A fire, a crash, and a contract 2024-11-29 · 32m
Severe turbulence, more bullets, and hundreds of hamsters 2024-11-22 · 34m
Please don't shoot at the planes 2024-11-15 · 38m
All right, everybody back to work 2024-11-08 · 37m
Airplane facts with Max 2024-11-01 · 48m
They strike on 2024-10-25 · 34m
Boeing brings the battle axe 2024-10-18 · 38m
The FAA doesn’t want headless pilots 2024-10-11 · 46m
Escalation or the new normal? 2024-10-04 · 63m
How best and final is “best and final”? 2024-09-27 · 33m
Leis, strikes, and stripped for parts 2024-09-20 · 46m
How much cocaine can you fit in a Gulfstream? 2024-09-13 · 46m
When protection doesn’t protect you 2024-09-06 · 37m
When the door guy goes on vacation 2024-08-30 · 52m
Just when everything was starting to go well 2024-08-23 · 36m
VoePass 2283 crash discussion with Steve Giordano 2024-08-16 · 42m
Hear ye, hear ye says the NTSB 2024-08-09 · 42m
Boeing chooses its new CEO 2024-08-02 · 53m
Gary O’Donnell, A321XLR head of program 2024-07-26 · 57m
Finally, some good news for Boeing! 2024-07-19 · 43m
Wait, who’s cleared for takeoff!? 2024-07-12 · 43m
The NTSB puts Boeing in timeout 2024-07-05 · 48m
International trash balloons 2024-06-28 · 40m
Congress, Dutch roll, and bad titanium 2024-06-21 · 38m
Reduced separation 2024-06-14 · 41m
Boeing’s plan to fix itself 2024-06-07 · 33m
Coming to an airplane near you, news from AIX 2024 2024-05-31 · 41m
Extreme turbulence 2024-05-24 · 39m
Not-so-deferred prosecution? 2024-05-17 · 48m
Falsifying records 2024-05-10 · 36m
A new challenger emerges 2024-05-03 · 50m
Scott Bateman’s Hercules 2024-04-26 · 63m
Stolen gold and expensive eels 2024-04-19 · 50m
Another whistle blows 2024-04-12 · 41m
Striking for the right to strike 2024-04-05 · 36m
How the aviation industry is reacting to GPS spoofing 2024-03-29 · 63m
Beware the chair 2024-03-22 · 43m
Asleep at the sidestick 2024-03-15 · 52m
With respect to documentation 2024-03-08 · 39m
30 minutes of bad decisions 2024-03-01 · 43m
A bad day in Belgrade 2024-02-23 · 41m
Grounded for the dumbest of reasons 2024-02-16 · 39m
The bolts, they are missing 2024-02-09 · 44m
Time traveling with Taylor Swift and turtles 2024-02-02 · 73m
Let’s inspect more 737s 2024-01-26 · 33m
737-9 MAX inspections and investigations 2024-01-19 · 50m
Alaska Airlines flight 1282 2024-01-11 · 70m
Japan Airlines flight 516 2024-01-05 · 58m
Our favorite conversations from 2023 2023-12-29 · 41m
He’s a stowaway! 2023-12-22 · 37m
Getting goosed 2023-12-15 · 30m
Alaska says Aloha 2023-12-08 · 36m
Olov Lindström: how to land a 787 in Antarctica 2023-12-01 · 39m
Turkey, mashed potatoes, and Shinkansen 2023-11-24 · 9m
Quit horsing around back there 2023-11-17 · 53m
Want to run the most secretive airline in the world? 2023-11-10 · 40m
First officer threatens to shoot captain over medical diversion 2023-11-03 · 34m
Event Horizon 2023-10-27 · 51m
The greatest reinvention of an airline in the history of aviation 2023-10-20 · 59m
The civil aviation situation in Israel 2023-10-13 · 35m
Into the Airchive! 2023-10-06 · 58m
1200 pilots short 2023-09-29 · 39m
Route proving with the A321XLR 2023-09-22 · 50m
Ural in a field (again) 2023-09-15 · 49m
Duplicate waypoints led to NATS outage 2023-09-08 · 46m
Investigation, what investigation? 2023-09-01 · 40m
Prigozhin’s plane plummets 2023-08-25 · 67m
Just kidding about vacation, this is a new episode 2023-08-18 · 29m
Jumpseat cameraman 2023-08-11 · 38m
TCAS for the win! 2023-08-04 · 31m
Contaminated powder and a single piece of chicken 2023-07-28 · 32m
The escaping escape slide 2023-07-21 · 35m
An unruly passenger 2023-07-14 · 56m
That’s a bad look Scott 2023-07-07 · 44m
They warned us it would be bad 2023-06-30 · 47m
The largest single order in commercial aircraft history 2023-06-23 · 48m
Nonstop to Beef Island 2023-06-16 · 45m
Air India is in for a long wait 2023-06-09 · 50m
Asiana’s open door policy 2023-06-02 · 40m
The NEA is DOA 2023-05-26 · 51m
Former NTSB Chair Robert Sumwalt 2023-05-19 · 51m
Ryanair goes all in on the 737-10 MAX 2023-05-12 · 57m
Covered in bees! 2023-05-05 · 43m
Mo' Engines, Mo' Problems 2023-04-28 · 45m
A non-standard manufacturing process 2023-04-21 · 41m
It’s volcano time 2023-04-14 · 39m
Passing the Medium Flocking Bird Test 2023-04-07 · 39m
Ian’s surprise solo show 2023-03-31 · 20m
The FAA says fly better 2023-03-24 · 35m
Time for Safety Summit 2023-03-17 · 33m
The DOJ suit we’ve all been expecting 2023-03-10 · 45m
These close calls keep getting closer 2023-03-03 · 47m
Two tail strikes and an all stop 2023-02-24 · 37m
United’s disturbing dive after departure 2023-02-17 · 47m
Less than 100 feet apart 2023-02-10 · 42m
Sending the last 747 home 2023-02-03 · 40m
Boeing earnings and arraignment, NTSB comments again 2023-01-27 · 43m
One crashed, two came close 2023-01-20 · 48m
Organ Transplant Logistics 2023-01-13 · 65m
The problem with the ET302 final report 2023-01-06 · 51m
Our favorite conversations from 2022 2022-12-30 · 58m
Southwest Airlines’ Operational Meltdown 2022-12-27 · 53m
Boeing gets an early Christmas gift 2022-12-23 · 37m
What do you do on a 13 hour test flight? 2022-12-16 · 44m
The final 747 leaves the factory 2022-12-09 · 51m
He fought the wire and the wire won 2022-12-02 · 40m
What happened in Lima? 2022-11-25 · 46m
AvTalk Episode 190: Would you like to play a game? 2022-11-18 · 47m
Looking into Boeing’s Future 2022-11-11 · 52m
Harassed by a Drone 2022-11-04 · 57m
Korean Air goes off-roading 2022-10-28 · 38m
Unexpected runway 2022-10-21 · 35m
Wheel’s Away! 2022-10-14 · 36m
The life of an airline dispatcher 2022-10-07 · 57m
Closing down, Opening up 2022-09-30 · 40m
Electricity in the air 2022-09-23 · 44m
The Queen’s Flight 2022-09-16 · 39m
Parabolic flight on the Zero G A310 2022-09-09 · 62m
French fisticuffs on the flight deck 2022-09-02 · 36m
Behold the AmeriBoom! 2022-08-26 · 47m
Our attempt at a summer break 2022-08-19 · 21m
The 787 returns 2022-08-12 · 43m
Thanks Nancy 2022-08-05 · 34m
Spirit turns its lonely eyes to Blue 2022-07-29 · 65m
Farnborough a go go 2022-07-22 · 46m
Six feet from a very different ending 2022-07-15 · 59m
The smoldering summer of suck 2022-07-08 · 48m
I'll take the top bunk 2022-07-01 · 49m
It was a hit and run 2022-06-24 · 45m
Patience packed, but will it be enough? 2022-06-17 · 54m
Could SAS be the new Alitalia? 2022-06-10 · 44m
You can’t stick that plug there 2022-06-03 · 57m
LufthITA Cruise Lines 2022-05-27 · 44m
JetBlue vs Spirit 2: This time it’s hostile 2022-05-20 · 47m
The passenger landed the plane! 2022-05-13 · 54m
Project Sunrise gets the green light 2022-05-06 · 54m
AvTalk Episode 161: Cigarettes and Oxygen don’t mix 2022-04-29 · 42m
We’re in for a rough summer 2022-04-22 · 34m
Going multi-modal 2022-04-15 · 48m
JetBlue’s surprise bid for Spirit 2022-04-08 · 50m
They missed the deadline 2022-04-01 · 41m
China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 2022-03-25 · 33m
Andy Taylor, Chief Solutions Officer 2022-03-18 · 52m
The Titanium Curtain Rises 2022-03-10 · 36m
Ukraine, Russia and the impact on aviation 2022-03-03 · 37m
Hydrogen on the A380 2022-02-25 · 41m
Keeping an eye on Ukraine 2022-02-18 · 42m
Spirit, the final Frontier 2022-02-11 · 51m
Now that’s a biggun’ 2022-02-04 · 46m
Firing the customer 2022-01-28 · 48m
The US’s 5G fiasco 2022-01-21 · 53m
Train versus plane 2022-01-14 · 34m
EK231 and the stinking onion 2022-01-07 · 45m
Our favorite conversations from 2021 2021-12-31 · 91m
Everything you need to know about jet fuel, part 2 2021-12-22 · 41m
Everything you need to know about jet fuel, part 1 2021-12-17 · 63m
China greenlights the 737 MAX 2021-12-10 · 18m
United CEO Scott Kirby on SAFs 2021-12-03 · 33m
Catching up with Air Baltic’s CEO and Chief Pilot 2021-11-26 · 12m
The 2021 Dubai Airshow 2021-11-19 · 41m
The grand reopening 2021-11-12 · 53m
Jet Pack man isn't real 2021-11-05 · 40m
Airbus Chief Test Pilot Malcolm Ridley 2021-10-29 · 29m
Nobody cares about number 2 2021-10-22 · 35m
Southwest, ATC, and the rumor mill 2021-10-15 · 35m
Net Zero at the IATAAGM 2021-10-08 · 42m
When pigs... stand next to the runway 2021-10-01 · 43m
The Airbus Summit 2021-09-24 · 39m
A maddening report 2021-09-17 · 39m
The Raccoon Returns 2021-09-10 · 33m
Getting into the boxes business 2021-09-03 · 33m
The Kabul Airlift 2021-08-27 · 40m
Chaos in Kabul 2021-08-20 · 35m
Get out your smelling salts 2021-08-13 · 30m
Cockpit Casual with Steve Giordano 2021-08-06 · 43m
Everything you need to know about eVTOL aircraft 2021-07-30 · 44m
Passing 100,000 2021-07-23 · 32m
Aviation, it’s electric! 2021-07-16 · 41m
Ditching in the dark 2021-07-09 · 31m
A real aircraft order 2021-07-02 · 34m
Undesirable Retraction 2021-06-25 · 36m
WTO look there's China 2021-06-18 · 33m
Is Boom all noise? 2021-06-11 · 46m
Shootin’ the Breeze 2021-06-04 · 33m
Ryanair flight 4978 forced to land in Belarus 2021-05-28 · 40m
They walked away from a mid-air collision 2021-05-21 · 40m
NTSB Investigator Sean Payne, Part 2 2021-05-07 · 68m
NTSB Investigator Sean Payne, Part 1 2021-04-23 · 68m
Meet Frugal the Squirrel 2021-04-09 · 65m
Ian does his best to pronounce Fagradalsfjall 2021-03-26 · 70m
Strong words from Sir Tim Clark 2021-03-12 · 68m
How to run an airport in Antarctica 2021-03-05 · 35m
It’s raining engine parts 2021-02-26 · 50m
AvTalk Episode 104: Air Greenland CEO Jacob Nitter 2021-02-12 · 67m
Ian’s plan to save Norwegian with GameStop cash 2021-01-29 · 44m
The crash of Sriwijaya Air flight 182 2021-01-15 · 58m
Our favorite conversations from 2020 2021-01-01 · 51m
Good riddance 2020 2020-12-18 · 72m
AvTalk Episode 99: Solving the mystery of the whale song 2020-12-04 · 42m
AvTalk Episode 98: The MAX is back 2020-11-20 · 67m
AvTalk Episode 97: The Piston-powered Episode 2020-11-06 · 70m
AvTalk Episode 96: Everything is strange and nothing makes sense 2020-10-23 · 49m
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