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Investigators looking for the final resting place of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 have spent more than $150 million using the latest sensing and navigation technology without result and now they’re hoping to try a high-tech version of a message in a bottle. Australian scientists have built six replicas of the flaperon from the Boeing 777 […]
A homebuilt crashed and burned in an Anchorage neighborhood Saturday, killing the pilot and his dog but not causing any other damage. It apparently just missed a man walking his dog, however. The aircraft, described as a Super Cub-type homebuilt on floats, was spotted flying low over a subdivision on the Anchorage Hillside before it […]
Investigators who probed the ditching of USAir 1549 into the Hudson River in 2009 say the recently released movie about the event portrays them in an inaccurate and unfair light. The movie, Sully, directed by Clint Eastwood, was released over the weekend in U.S. theaters. For dramatic purposes, Sully portrays the NTSB investigators as prosecutors […]
A group of Canadian pilots will bring history to life by flying replica First World War fighters over a ceremony commemorating the Battle of Vimy Ridge next April. view on YouTube
You’re in the airplane, strapped in and about to start the checklist when it hits you—filling the right half of the windshield is The Hangar. The one in the famous picture. The picture showing a Maule M-4 blasting out the hangar’s open door in full and fearless flight. Right there is where the legendary B. […]
The FAA is warning owners of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to keep their devices turned off during flights due to the risk of battery fires. “In light of recent incidents and concerns raised by Samsung about its Galaxy Note 7 devices, the Federal Aviation Administration strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge […]
Austrian pilot and Red Bull Air Race competitor Hannes Arch died Thursday in a helicopter crash in the Alps. Arch operated a company that flew deliveries to mountain huts in the region, according to European news outlets. The helicopter, flying at night to Salzburg, crashed into terrain about 9 p.m., The Local of Austria reported. […]
Try this thought experiment: Before USAir 1549 splashed down in the Hudson, if you put 10 airline crews in a simulator and ran the same scenario, how many would achieve results identical to the real event? Hold that thought for a moment, I’ll get back to it. Of course, you can’t unknow the details of […]
Hundreds of pilots filled a theater in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on Wednesday to watch a preview of Sully, the much-hyped account of the Miracle on the Hudson. There were some minor quibbles but Sandy Dubrow, who was among the pilots, told AVweb’s Russ Niles the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. Duration: 4:30 File Size: 4.7MB download […]
My brother slipped me a piece of paper on which he’d jotted three numbers: 260, 240 and 180. If you haven’t guessed, they’re weights. Add me and the load is 860 pounds well-marbled (not 170-pound), above-average Americans. Add full tanks, 56 gallons of fuel and we would approach gross weight. I had yet to add […]
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