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USAF C-17 Flies Emergency Infant Formula From Germany To Indiana
A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III landed at Indianapolis International airport in Indiana on May 22 loaded with a 78,000 pounds of infant formula from Switzerland, enough for half a million baby bottles, said the Air Force. The formula was transported from Zurich to Ramstein Air Base in Germany on trucks, then loaded […]
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AOPA Air Safety Institute Posts ‘Early Analysis' Video On Fatal STOL Crash
The AOPA Air Safety Institute (ASI) released a video today (May 24) exploring the May 20 fatal accident during the MayDay STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) event in Wayne, Nebraska. Competitor Tom Dafoe was killed when his Cessna 140 crashed on final approach during a STOL demonstration. As part of the institute's Early Analysis series, […]
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Overall Avionics Sales Increase for Seventh Consecutive Quarter
The Aircraft Electronics Association announced today (May 24) that overall sales for the first quarter of 2022 were up 4.8 percent over the fourth quarter of 2021, marking gains for the seventh consecutive quarter. With total sales of $63.5 million between New Year's Day and the end of March, avionics revenues were also up by […]
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EBACE 2022: Textron Heeds Its European Customers With Three Announcements
Textron Aviation made two glass-clinking announcements today (May 24) at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland—and a third with more lunch-pail appeal. The U.S. manufacturer revealed that Luxaviation Group—one of the largest private aircraft operators in the world—will be the first European customer for the Cessna Citation M2 Gen2 light […]
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‘Top Gun: Maverick' Finally Arrives Friday, But Until Then…
The long-awaited release of Tom Cruise's “Top Gun: Maverick” will finally arrive in theaters on Friday (May 27), and the aviation world is champing at the bit. As a sidebar teaser to the release, Cruise teamed up with Late Late Show host James Corden for a legitimately funny and very well-filmed 15-minute video that opens […]
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AHRS/AHARS Issues
Beech 58 Baron Cold-Weather Failure While at cruise altitude of 14,000 feet on a very cold day, the G500 panel flagged the airspeed, altitude, AIS, OAT, heading and horizon all “x” out with big red x's. Loss of all data from the AHARS. Pilot used the backup instruments to complete the flight. Whenever cold, the […]
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Blame It On The Wind
There's an old saying: “Landings are mandatory; takeoffs are optional.” Like so many other phrases we hear in the pilot lounge, it's cute while trying to be educational. Although I've had to abort a takeoff before, and demonstrated them many times when transitioning to various multi-engine airplanes, I'd never really understood the truth of the […]
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NTSB Reports
February 1, 2022, Danville, Va. Cessna 310R At about 1006 Eastern time, the airplane was destroyed when it collided with terrain. The solo commercial pilot was fatally injured. Visual conditions prevailed for the aerial surveying flight. According to ADS-B data, the airplane climbed to 2300 feet msl about two minutes into the flight before beginning […]
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Flocking Together
I hit a bird once. I was flying a Piper Arrow II, on short final, with landing gear and full flaps extended, when I saw the bird ahead of the airplane. It was maneuvering and, from my perspective, flew in a circle as we neared each other, then disappeared under the left wing. I heard a […]
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