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It’s good to know people who went through aviation history and who saw big changes. I’m talking transformative technology introductions, like all-metal monocoque construction, the opposed air-cooled engine, the turbine engine, GPS and computers in the cockpit. Advances like these have reshaped aviation again and again since even before Kitty Hawk. Still, every time a […]

With its 385-foot wingspan, 12 main landing gear wheels (plus two nose gear wheels), and 550,000-pound payload, the Stratolaunch took to the air on April 13 for the first time in preparation for its eventual mission: launching satellites into low-Earth orbit. News outlets are billing it as the “world’s largest plane.” Now, that’s debatable. There’s […]

The crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 at Addis Ababa has never been a complete mystery. The accident, which claimed the life of all 157 onboard, seemed from the beginning likely to be related to the MCAS system that Boeing installed on the 737 Max to help it pass its flying qualities tests with the […]

A startling oversight on a practical test made for a ride to remember.

The team that developed a ground collision avoidance system has won the prestigious award.

Across     1. Large Florida aircraft sales and service provider     5. Major centers of airline flight patterns     7. O to a pilot     8. Rotating about the front to back axis   10. Roswell arrival   11. At OSH they’re red or yellow or green!.   12. Airline that was ADS-B pioneer   13. Prefix for plane or built   15. Every […]

NOTE: The reports republished here are from the NTSB and are printed verbatim and in their complete form. CESSNA 340 Bartow, FL/Injuries: 5 Fatal The instrument-rated private pilot and four passengers boarded the multiengine airplane inside a hangar. The pilot then requested that the airplane be towed from the hangar to the ramp, since he […]

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A preliminary report from investigators on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, as you doubtless have heard, looks to be another case of a new flight control augmentation system responding to bad data from an angle of attack sensor and putting the aircraft out of control. That system, as you surely know by now, […]