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The Aviators is a weekly magazine-style TV series featuring interesting people, the latest aircraft, the coolest technology and the best fly-in destinations. We will take you behind the scenes to show you how airline pilots train, how planes are built, and how ATC works. We will profile aviation businesses and showcase aviation products. We will provide safety tips for private and recreational pilots and career tips for professional pilots.

Bitz Flugzeubau Dr1 Triplane, brought to fame by it's use in the filming of inspirational films such as The Blue Max, Von Richtofen and Brown, Darling Lilly, Zeppelin, The Great Waldo Pepper, and others

The PD-1 is designed to perform as an aircraft first and a vehicle second. By incorporating a movable and auxiliary drive pod, the plane maintains its original center of gravity. During the transition, the wings rotate back along the side of the fuselage, the tail hinges and vehicle controls are quickly snapped into place.

Lyn Freeman talks about the history of Build A Plane

To Dietrich, whose Transition is designed to be able to drive home from the airport, Fuller said, "What were you thinking?" The MIT graduate laughed and said that she and her team believe in the reality of a roadable aircraft. "It will be a tool, but it will also be an adventure vehicle. The power of light sport combined with automotive technology ... ."

Looking back on his flight into space as pilot of SpaceShipOne, Mike Melvill finds the whole experience somewhat surreal

Future of Air Vehicles  - NASA studys ways to make safer, faster, more efficient air vehicles. NASA does not build aircraft, rather, NASA works with industry to provide technologies that industry can use to build new aircraft. + Discover possible capabilities for future air vehicles (.mov) Development for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will become an increasing part of our aeronautics future. Download a movie that explains some of the possibilities for non-military use UAVs. + Discover technology development for UAVs (.mov)

Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny."  went into production in 1915.  It became the most important Army training aircraft of World War I.  More importantly, the Jenny was the airplane that gave aviation a beginning in America.

over 340 Virgin Galactic astronauts who will venture into space

Some great scenes of vintage carrier planes and operations from the 1960's.

flying the Curtiss Pusher. They plan a documentary film about the Curtiss as it flies to and participates in 2011 Centennial of Naval Aviation events. In other words, Bryan and Paul are planning to share in the adventure, as a 100 year old airplane barnstorms its way across much of America, bringing audiences and airport bums alike a glimpse of the beginnings of Naval Aviation.

NVAA - Engine failure experience in IMC. This is the communications recording between the pilot of a Lancair Legacy N913MP and a Seattle Center controller. The Lancair experienced engine failure while on a flight from Redmond, OR to Boise, ID. Icing, engine failure complicates things. This is how it should be done! Two people VERY composed during the whole emergency. Enjoy the excitement!

The technique is called high dynamic range and involves blending up to nine different exposures of the subject. This wide range of exposures allows the final image to come closer to the extreme range between light and dark that the human eye can see.

In an efficient and safe effort to save us from the ill-effects of plastic waste, Akinori Ito has developed a machine which converts plastic back into oil. The machine produced in various sizes, for both industrial and home uses, can easily transform a kilogram of plastic waste into a liter of oil, using about 1 kW·h of electricity but without emitting CO2 in the process. The machine uses a temperature controlling electric heater instead of flames, processing anything from polyethylene or polystyrene to polypropylene (numbers 2-4). Comment: 1 kg of plastic produces one liter of oil, which costs $1.50. This process uses only about 1 kW·h of electricity, which costs less than 20 cents!

The student will have an opportunity to learn about the Properties of Gas,and Laws of Conservation, they will also visually see both biological principles hands on. The students will pose a hypothesis and use the scientific method to interpret their hypothesis.

This activity will allow students to create their own cloud. They will also learn different aspects of the water cycle and how a cloud is actually created in the atmosphere.

5th generation fighter planes

This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981. The footage highlights liftoff, the onboard activities of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, as well as the landing in Rogers Dry Lake bed in California. -