Category: Flying – Page 7
Not an auspicious start
Ben, who was going to be flying with me, contacted me on Sunday to say that he was stuck in Copenhagen with a jet whose wheels would not retract. A nice young man named Alistair agreed to adopt me for a few days, so we flew out to Shobdon yesterday where we got stuck on…
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Accident Reports
A Lesson On Keeping The Aircraft in Trim
On the 28th of May 2019, a customer arrived at a flight school at Archerfield Airport, Queensland for their first flight experience. The aircraft that day was a Cessna 152,…
Explosive Decompression on the Ground
The Gulfstream G150, a twin-engine business jet, arrived at Kittilä airport in Lapland on a cold Tuesday afternoon on the 2nd of January 2018, carrying three crew and four passengers.…
Demystifying
How Many Successful Ditchings of Commercial Airliners?
When I was learning to fly, I remember someone in the pilots’ bar insisting that all that talk about life jackets under your seat was a waste of time; if…
Small Plane Gets Stoned
This photograph has been posted to aviation forums repeatedly, each time with a thread of pilots wondering what the hell could have happened to cause the light aircraft to be…
History
The History Listen
I was on the radio on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in a show called The History Listen. They asked me to tell them about a famous story in Australian and…
The Last Flight of B121-120
The Beagle B.121 Pup is a British, single-engine, all-metal aircraft produced in the 1960s. British Executive and General Aviation Limited, who traded as BEAGLE, designed the Beagle B.121 Pup as…
Fun Stuff
The Tetris Challenge
When the Kantonspolizei Zürich (the police department of the Swiss canton of Zurich) posted a photograph on Facebook showing the contents of a standard patrol car, they had no idea…
The History Listen
I was on the radio on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in a show called The History Listen. They asked me to tell them about a famous story in Australian and…
@FearofLanding
maidbloke on Pratt & Whitney Contained Engine Failure"the video made the failure look “not as contained as it actually was”" There's an understatement! For a cabin containing…
Rudy Jakma on The Tetris ChallengeNeil, you just formulated why the first thing I do at the end of the week is to look at…
Mendel on Fatal Helicopter Crash in LA County, CAI've googled him, and Dan Gryder is certainly a controversial figure who seems to not like regulations much. A reddit…
Neil Higgs on The Tetris ChallengeThe thing is about these posts is that I never know what the week’s topic will be. So my Saturday…
Kathy Williams on Fly by Night: Part 2Interesting anecdote, well written. 
Richard on The Tetris Challengere: the captions: Have you?