Pilot Stories

Maule M6 Moose Pass, Alaska/ Injuries: 3 Fatal, 1 Serious The pilot was conducting a personal flight with three passengers aboard. The flight encountered an area of deteriorating visibility due to smoke from a wildfire burning in the area, and the pilot was attempting to follow a highway through mountainous terrain. The pilot-rated passenger stated […]

Our chances of surviving the rocky forced landing were slim. Then they got even worse.

Cessna 310 Walton, New York/Injuries: 1 Fatal The pilot was conducting an instrument flight rules flight along a route that he had flown frequently in the months before the accident. About 55 minutes into the flight, while at cruise altitude, the pilot stated to air traffic control, “I need to get on the ground immediately.” […]

Across     1  Oxymoronic J-3? Two words.     8  Engine covering Batman would approve of     9  Baumgartner, who famously set a record high-altitude skydive   10  Where Detroit is in relationship to Chicago, for instance   13  What you do with a clearance   15  Johnson, who famously performed a roll in a Boeing […]

Commuting in the M20 to the sim center to see how rusty things had gotten, or not.

Though many doubt the viability of such a concept, the idea of a small, single-pilot, practical jet-powered airplane has been around for a good long while.

First Documented Wing Walk: 1911 Early Use: Aircraft refueling & repair (World War I) Founder Of First “Flying Circus:” Ormer Locklear, 1919 Trademark Stunt: Jumping plane-to-plane Most Daring Feat: “Dance of Death” The Stunt: Two pilots switching planes mid-air Hollywood Film Featuring Locklear: The Great Air Robbery Aircraft: Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” Film Featuring His Death: […]

Piper PA-18 Super Cub Big Lake, Alaska/Injuries: 1 The pilot reported that, while performing touch-and-go landings, he applied carburetor heat during the second landing. During takeoff after the second landing, he turned the carburetor heat off and applied full power. Once airborne, the airplane began to lose power, and he manipulated the throttle and carburetor […]

Three people died after a pilot lost control of his plane in Louisburg, North Carolina.

Every photographer’s work tells a story, and for the most talented, that body of images has a unifying character, a sense of how the artist sees the world and, by extension, who that shooter is. For West Seattle, Washington, resident Long Bach Nguyen, that world is one of contrasts—darkness and light, air and sand and […]