Going Direct: What Pilots Get About Risk That The Rest Of The World Doesn‘t
We learn a lot more than just X’s and O’s in flight school, even if we don’t realize it.
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We learn a lot more than just X’s and O’s in flight school, even if we don’t realize it.
QUICKSILVER Fredericksburg, Virginia/Injuries: 1 Fatal The commercial pilot was operating an experimental amateur-built airplane on a personal flight in the airport traffic pattern. Video and audio recovered from an airframe-mounted camera, along with track data recorded by two onboard GPS receivers, revealed that, during the initial climb, the throttle was reduced, and then increased back […]
The utility plane was the victim of a cost-cutting move by industrial giant Mahindra.
The object is of unknown origin but appears to be manmade. Either that or’¦
We all know the planes and pilots that were first to do something monumental. But do you know who the second ones to those same achievements were? Neither did we. But their stories, when we can dig them up, are very cool.
The disappearance off the coast of Australia of a low-time, UFO-obsessed pilot defies easy explanation, or does it?
Finally, good news for 737 Max, a tragic end for an extreme flyer, twin pandemic-related casualties, and much more in this week’s news roundup.
This Lear 24 is gorgeous, fast and cheap. It is, of course, not that easy. It’s never that easy!
You know how this works, slow-fly into a stiff enough wind and before you know it ’¦.
The media’s perverse fascination with plane crashes is easy to get. Their audience is afraid of airplanes.