Category: NASA
Supersonic Shockwave Interactions
These photographs are from last March but they’ve just been featured in Nature magazine’s collection of the best science images of the year NASA has been exploring the potential of photographic technology resulting in these beautiful air-to-air photographs of supersonic aircraft and how their shockwaves interact. Two T-38 Talon twinjet supersonic jet trainers were flown…
Read more… 24 Jan 20
Accident Reports
Lionair flight 610 : The Maintenance
One of the aspects of Lion Air flight 610 has been the quality of the maintenance. It is clear, now, that intermittent problems related to the air data system had…
When Pre-Flight Prep Becomes Criminal
The accident took place on the 9th of September 2017 shortly after take-off from Manchester City Airport, a municipal airfield near the Manchester Ship Canal in the north of England.…
Demystifying
What To Do In Case Of An Electrical Failure
NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) have an interesting series in Callback, in which they publish the first half of a story, based on ASRS reports, to the point where…
Flight 19: The Point of No Return
I was interviewed about Flight 19 for a documentary recently and although I’ve limited the details of the experience to supporters of my personal Patreon (for travel writing and essays),…
History
Flight 19: The Point of No Return
I was interviewed about Flight 19 for a documentary recently and although I’ve limited the details of the experience to supporters of my personal Patreon (for travel writing and essays),…
Wingless Flight in the M2-F1
Sometimes, the most interesting aircraft are the experimental ones that barely made it off the ground. Sometimes the most intriguing stories come out of things I don’t understand. I…
Fun Stuff
Top Ten Posts of 2019
Next week we’ll be starting on a detailed look at Lion Air flight 610 but first, to celebrate the end of 2019, I want to share the most popular posts…
Airbus A320 vs Grumman Avenger
I was offered the opportunity of a free week in Berlin, which is fabulous but I’ve been travelling so much, I haven’t had the time to write something new. What…
@FearofLanding
Manuel Ortiz Dalchow on Hypoxia on Kalitta 66DCS Guess it means Decompression Sickness 
Ed on The Mystery of Northwest Orient Flight 2501Aluminum does not “degrade” / “deteriorate” in water, which was used in planes. 
B B on Hypoxia on Kalitta 66What's DCS? The captain of this flight was your father? He sounded very familiar to me, but the person I…
Rudy Jakma on What To Do In Case Of An Electrical FailureThanks for the comments. As mentioned, I have never really paid much attention to diesel technology used in light aircraft.…
colintd on What To Do In Case Of An Electrical FailureYes. Text messages are store and forward, which means they will sit on your phone (or central exchange) untill the…
Mendel on What To Do In Case Of An Electrical FailureAh, I learn something new all the time! I wasn't aware of what magnetos are (I expected them to be…