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Beaches and airplanes go together like a salad and a toss, especially for emergency landings. But there have been fatalities when pilots land without seeing people walking or wading. In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli examines the risks and offers tips on landing on a beach or ditching offshore, if that’s the better option.

In late April 2020, the Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Force Thunderbirds dazzled the country with a series of 12-ship flybys of major American cities. In this video, former Thunderbirds commanding officer Richard McSpadden comments on what it takes to fly those demos and formations.

You no doubt saw last week’s rare combined Blue Angels and Thunderbird flyby of several U.S. cities to honor health care workers toiling against COVID-19. But you certainly didn’t see it like this. In spectacular cockpit footage, see what the pilots see when flying a tight formation flyby.

In early April 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic all but idled airline traffic in the U.S. What better opportunity to tour New York’s three major airports—LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark—with a four-ship of Bonanzas, as detailed in this video graciously provided by Anil Sangwan.

On April 14th, 2020, the NTSB released the docket for the fatal crash of an Icon A5 piloted by baseball star Roy Halladay. In this video, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli comments on the docket findings. You can find the full report on the NTSB site at https://tinyurl.com/y8srdpmc. If drugs were an issue, they were hardly the […]