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The storm came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane, causing extensive damage to infrastructure.

The company that operated the flight of the Sikorsky S76B that crashed in late January killing basketball superstar Kobe Bryant and seven others is suing air traffic controllers. The suit alleges that controllers’ handling of the flight, specifically turning down the pilot’s request for flight following, caused increased stress and workload, which resulted in the […]

In the suit, the charter company claims the controllers are at fault for the crash.

The military is looking at the machine, called Hexa, for troop mobility. We want one for fun!

Beech 35 Bonanza Caldwell, New Jersey/Injuries: 4 The pilot reported that the air traffic tower controller had cleared him to land behind another airplane and that he was distracted searching for the airplane ahead and did not extend the landing gear. He eventually visually located the traffic and continued the approach. He did not hear […]

Pilots Prepare for Pink Slips as Furloughs Firm Up

See how fast it all happens and what precision flying it takes. Amazing.

The updated look at the birth of the manned space program is a dramatic series based on the book by Tom Wolfe. There’s a lot to recommend it.

Across 1 Substance used as a drying agent when storing planes 6 Sudden severe turbulence occurring in cloudless regions causing violent buffeting of the aircraft, abbr. 8 Prop sound 9 Gauge datum 10 Dornier letters 11 Religious denomination, for short 13 Venturi _____ (plural) 16 _____ yaw: yaw generated when the ailerons are used 18 […]

When artificial intelligence soundly defeated a frontline fighter pilot last week, it wasn’t the beginning of the end. It was just the punctuation.