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PILATUS PC-12 Amarillo, Texas Injuries: 3 Fatal The pilot and two medical crewmembers departed on an air ambulance flight in night instrument meteorological conditions to pick up a patient. After departure, the local air traffic controller observed the airplane’s primary radar target with an incorrect transponder code in a right turn and climbing through 4,400 more »
What do you do in a developed flat spin? If this question sends a chill down your spine, you’re not alone. The video, which shows a test pilot of an LSA trying to recover from a well-developed spin pulling the chute, finally. According to BRS, the plane suffered only superficial damage. Without the chute pull, more »
The online world is rampant with cheats and jerks, and one of the good guys in aviation, Mike Patey, is the victim of an apparent online scammer. The unknown person has created a website, now since taken down, that offered Patey’s highly modified Wilga, called Draco, for sale. The only problem is, the website proprietor more »
Eight years ago when the FAA said it wanted the fatal accident rate for homebuilts cut substantially over the next ten years, it seemed like an ambitious goal. After all, at least part of the Experimental/Amateur-Built regs are intended to allow off the regs development of new technology, and that always brings risk with it, more »
I don’t know if anyone does it anymore, but when I was a little kid and we’d occasionally see a Model A Ford or similar old-timey car tooling down the street next to Mustangs and Olds New Yorkers, we’d holler, “Get a horse!” We thought it was funny because, well, the era of horses had more »
Cessna announced on Thursday that its super mid-size Citation Longitude has earned provisional type certification from the FAA. Sign up for our newsletter, full of tips, reviews and more! A 3,500 nm, 45,000-foot ceiling aircraft, the Longitude will cruise at a top speed of Mach .83. The aircraft’s fuselage is similar to the super-midsize Latitude, more »
It’s hard to argue with the success that Dale Klapmeier has achieved at Cirrus Aircraft. Since taking the reins as CEO in 2011 after the departure from Cirrus of his brother and company co-founder Alan Klapmeier, Dale Klapmeier successfully shepherded the company to profitability and the successful certification of the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet, the more »
Everybody agrees on one thing. Earlier this week a Groupo Aeromexico 737-800 hit something while on approach to land in Tijuana at General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. But what it hit remains to be seen. Was it a drone? It sure looks likely. The photographs from social media of more »
In 2018, we watched as aviation came face to face with new technology on several important fronts. Of course, anyone who’s been around flying for very long knows that almost nothing changes fast in aviation, so the coming together of light-speed tech advances and fully developed, if not perfected, aviation systems has got to lead more »
Lost pilots are generally associated with a lost airplane, but in this case, the authorities are wondering if the missing pilot, Colorado flight instructor Kelsey Berreth, might be an exception to that rule. Berreth, who is 29, went missing on Thanksgiving Day. She was last seen at a grocery store in Woodland Park, Colorado. A more »
Here is Plane & Pilot’s round up of the newest and most interesting gear and products for pilots and aviation enthusiasts. Robinson R66 Cargo Hook The recently FAA-approved Robinson cargo hook gives R66 fliers the ability to carry heavy external loads—up to 1,200 pounds’ worthwhile easily managing them from the cockpit. Thanks to the presence more »
The September 8, 2017, helicopter crash that claimed the life of well-known country western music star Troy Gentry, half of the band known as Montgomery Gentry, and that of the pilot was caused by a basic airmanship error by the pilot and a mechanical error by the shop that had recently serviced the aircraft. The more »
EPS Diesel has reported the best of news for start-up companies working to get a new design over the finish line: it has gotten additional funding “which should allow them to complete FAA Certification and to obtain production certification for the Graflight 8 diesel engine.” The company said the delay in certification of the eight-cylinder more »
The FAA has issued a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) to alert pilots to a potential problem with the Aspen Evolution PFD. The FAA said the condition doesn’t currently warrant an Airworthiness Directive, and it offered suggestions to avoid the problem. After numerous pilots reported that their Evolution Flight Displays (the EFD1000; EFD100 Multi-Function Display; more »
When Florida man, Chris Gursky, went off on an hang gliding adventure, his first ever, while on vacation with his wife in Switzerland, he kind of figured the experienced pilot would make sure Gursky’s harness was attached. Yeah, about that. The tandem flight lifted off from a high ridge for what should have been more »
Okay, when Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and a guy who knows a little about tech, says that he’s skeptical that driverless cars will ever be a thing, well, that’s reason to think about it. “The Woz,” who’s been a close personal imaginary friend of mine since I was forced to start using an more »
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have constructed and successfully test flown a 16-foot wingspan model plane that uses no fuel and could, theoretically, keep flying forever unrefueled. To top it off, the technology is solid-state, meaning in this case that there are no moving parts. The technology is called ionic wind and it more »
Czech pilot Martin Sonka is the winner of the 2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship after a close race in Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday. The race was so nail-biting, in fact, that the Red Bull Air Race called it “one of the most dramatic races” in the history of the air race.