You've probably seen a number of these before, but here are about sixty photos of aircraft that have been involved in ground incidents, ramp rash, unorthodox/off-airport landings, and so forth. (www.darkroastedblend.com) 更多...
You've probably seen some of these, but here are a dozen interesting airplane paint jobs, including a surprising entry from Aeroflot. (www.wired.com) 更多...
Awesome video created by Lieutenant Commander Spencer Abbot, who shot this footage from the cockpit of an F/A-18 Hornet with a fiber optic camera stuck to his helmet as he attempted in-flight refueling during turbulent weather. (www.boingboing.net) 更多...
As AAL268 made an emergency landing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, vital systems to control the jet were not working. When the jet touched down, the engine thrust reversers did not work to slow the Boeing 757-200 and it barreled down the runway, leaving a long trail of skid marks and stopping only 100 feet from the blast pad at the end of the runway. (seattlepi.nwsource.com) 更多...
This is Thomas Salme, a maintenance engineer who became a Boeing 737 pilot by flying a few nights in a flight simulator and printing a fake airliner pilot license. Amazingly enough, he flew passengers for thirteen years without any incidents. (gizmodo.com) 更多...
A single-engine Cessna clipped a power line and landed on the roof of a building, but the three occupants escaped unharmed, according to TV station WTLX. (www.wltx.com) 更多...
It took Marlon Green more than six years to battle Continental Airlines to become the first black hired as a pilot fora U.S. passenger airline. And it took Continental nearly 50 years to publicly acknowledge Green's contribution to its success. On Tuesday, that delayed expression of gratitude came in a Houston hangar during a ceremony to introduce Continental's newest Boeing 737 — emblazoned with Green's name. (www.chron.com) 更多...
Passenger laptop computers are now being investigated as a possible cause of the Qantas mid-air emergency on Tuesday, which injured 74 people, with 51 of them treated for fractures, lacerations and suspected spinal injuries. (www.nzherald.co.nz) 更多...
Kris Dutson, 53, has spent ten years scouting out the ideal locations across Britain to capture the most astonishing atmospheric shots on his camera as rain falls. (photo series) (www.dailymail.co.uk) 更多...
Five people on a flight from Kerry to Jersey received mobile phone text instructions from a quick-thinking air traffic controller when he guided them in to a safe landing at Cork. In what air accident investigator John Hughes described in his report yesterday as a "serious incident", the twin-engined Piper plane lost all onboard electrical power, communications and weather radar soon after take-off from Kerry airport on November 7th last. (via The Register) (www.irishtimes.com) 更多...
Canadian air force jets turned back two Russian Tupolev TU-95 bombers close to Canada’s northern border yesterday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office said in a statement. The encounter with the bombers underscores the need for Canada to buy F-35 fighter jets, Harper's spokesperson said in an email, while a liberal lawmaker said Canada should avoid chastising Russia over the flights to maintain a good relationship. (www.businessweek.com) 更多...
French photographer Thierry Legault has captured a stunning photo of the space shuttle Endeavor docked with the International Space Station crossing the face of the sun. (www.wired.com) 更多...
"Nick Popovich is a repo man, but not the kind that spirits away Hyundais from suburban driveways. Popovich is a super repo man, one of a handful of specialists who get the call when a bank wants back its Gulfstream II jet from, say, a small army of neo-Nazi freaks." (via boingboing). (www.salon.com) 更多...
A 1-year-old girl and an elderly man were among 10 spectators injured yesterday at a Memorial Day flight demonstration on Staten Island when the rotor blast from a landing Marine aircraft caused heavy tree branches to rain down on the crowd. (www.nypost.com) 更多...
The trade-off of a plane built light enough to fly above 70,000 feet is that it is almost impossible to control. And 13 miles above the ground, the atmosphere is so thin that the “envelope” between stalling and “overspeed” — going so fast you lose control of the plane, resulting in an unrecoverable nose dive — is razor-thin, making minor disruptions, even turbulence, as deadly as a missile. (www.nytimes.com) 更多...
Another turn in the Travolta/Greystone saga... After spending $20K+ on an engineering report that says the runway was safe for large aircraft, Travolta plans to land his Boeing 707 near his Ocala home this evening, flying in for the first time since February. The airport owner says if he does, he'll call the FAA. (www.jacksonville.com) 更多...
Holidaymakers avoided a long delay to their flight home when a passenger fixed a mechanical problem with their plane. A spokeswoman for Thomas Cook said the company followed strict procedures to ensure the man was qualified to work on the aircraft, a Boeing 757-200, during the incident on Saturday. (news.bbc.co.uk) 更多...
As aircraft flights are diverted away from the region due to the risk of engine failure from ash ingestion, a fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. (wattsupwiththat.com) 更多...
USA1549 reconstruction combines radar data with ATC conversations to produce a dramatic video reconstruction of the flight. (www.scenesystems.com) 更多...
Investigators studying last week's crash landing of a British Airways Boeing 777 said they are looking closely at the possibility that the accident was caused by an interruption in the flow of jet fuel to the engines, possibly due to fuel contamination. (seattletimes.nwsource.com) 更多...
One pilot was killed and another was apparently able to land safely after a midair collision between two aircraft at an airshow in Germany on the weekend. Photos of the collision indicate the aircraft, which appear to be high-performance aerobatic types, came together while traveling in the same direction. The wing of one folded under and it crashed vertically, killing the pilot. It was the third fatal airshow crash in as many weeks in Germany. (www.avweb.com) 更多...
The Air Force grounded all T-38C training jets Thursday after the second fatal crash involving the aircraft in eight days, the military said. (www.cnn.com) 更多...
Aviation authorities investigating the plane crash in Russia that killed Poland’s president last month released new details on Wednesday that suggested cockpit decisions played a significant role in the tragedy. Among the many remaining mysteries is why the voices of two or more people who were not crew members were captured by data recorders in the cockpit shortly before the crash. (www.nytimes.com) 更多...
Global figures for commercial aviation crashes in 2007 show an all-time low of 23 fatal accidents, and even the number of fatal casualties, at 597, was well below the annual average for the last 10 years. This can be compared with figures for the decade 1998-2007 showing an annual average of 34.5 fatal accidents a year and 846.3 fatalities. (www.flightglobal.com) 更多...
RIO DE JANEIRO -- A further 77 bodies from the doomed Rio to Paris Air France flight were recovered in recent weeks from the Atlantic, an association representing the families of Brazilian victims confirmed Tuesday. (www.nypost.com) 更多...
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - U.S. air traffic controllers used personal cell phones to sort out flights on Tuesday when a major communications systems failure in Memphis knocked out radio and radar, officials said. The three-hour midday disruption in a telephone line prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to clear all commercial flights over an eight-state area in the Southeast and Midwest while the problem was fixed, the agency said. (www.reuters.com) 更多...
"For the first time in military aviation history, supersonic, radar-evading stealth comes with short takeoff/vertical landing capability," said Bob Price, Lockheed Martin's F-35 U.S. Marine Corps program manager. (www.dailytech.com) 更多...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An aviator fighting his discharge under the now-repealed "don't ask, don't tell" policy has been granted his request to retire from the U.S. Air Force with his full rank and pension. (flightaware.com) 更多...
Boeing chief test pilot Mike Carriker explains the finesse required to gently drag the tail of ZA001 down the runway as well as testing the airplane’s braking system on a runway soaked with 50,000 gallons of water. Includes nice crosswind landing video. (www.wired.com) 更多...
Remember the [http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GLF17/history/20070206/1538Z/KATW/KATW flight] where Gulfstream spelled out GV in the flight track? With a GPS and DHL, this guy drew a self-portrait that spanned the globe. (biggestdrawingintheworld.com) 更多...
At least twice, F-16s have crashed as their pilots tried to urinate. Now, thanks to the Advanced Mission Extender Device, pilots can just go in their pants. (blog.wired.com) 更多...
In a step the agency says will improve the efficiency of air transportation for millions of Americans, FAA Acting Administrator Robert A. Sturgell gave the green light to nationwide deployment of a system that allows aircraft to be tracked by satellite rather than radar. (www.aero-news.net) 更多...
Another 787 milestone as two pilots from 787 Dreamliner launch customer All Nippon Airways Wednesday became the first non-Boeing pilots to fly the composite airliner. Boeing expects pilots ... who are rated on the 777, to be able to become qualified as 787 pilots in as few as five days of training. (blog.seattlepi.com) 更多...
NASA's EO-1 satellite has been used to obtain new images of the California wildfires, illustrating the scale of the blazes. The National Interagency Fire Center reports that 12 large, uncontained fires have burned more than 335,000 acres in Southern California. (www.nasa.gov) 更多...
Two fire extinguishers were needed to fight a blaze in the cockpit of a jet airliner that was diverted to Dulles International Airport on Sunday, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday. The captain and first officer of the United Airlines Boeing 757 both donned oxygen masks and smoke goggles when they spotted the smoke and fire, about 30 minutes into a New York to Los Angeles flight, the NTSB said. (www.washingtonpost.com) 更多...
An Afton, MN man is potentially facing a prison sentence for building an airport even though they are prohibited in Afton. (with video) (kstp.com) 更多...
A former supervisor with the Transportation Security Administration pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing more than $20,000 in jewelry, coins and other valuables from checked luggage at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (seattletimes.nwsource.com) 更多...
Seventy-five years ago the DC-3 ushered in the era of utility flight, one that continues to this day. Oh sure, the DC-3 may not top a lot of people's list of their favorite planes. It's not sleek. It's not sexy. And it's not fast. But despite a production run of just 11 years, the DC-3 remains one of the most important airplanes in the history of aviation. (www.wired.com) 更多...
Light just reaching earth from a stellar explosion that occurred 7.5 billion years ago was so bright that it would have been visible to the naked eye. (www.nasa.gov) 更多...
A TSA officer and a baggage handler have been arrested after stealing a laptop, mobile phones and an iPod from decoy luggage as it moved through JFK (via boingboing) (www.nydailynews.com) 更多...
Radar data indicates the aircraft made a tight 360 and shortly thereafter began a 6,800 fpm descent prior to the crash -- icing is a possibility. (www.aero-news.net) 更多...
A US Air National Guard F-15C crashed in rural south-central Missouri after the pilot ejected. The $40 million aircraft was among four engaged in one-on-one training dogfights. (ap.google.com) 更多...
The nation's 15,700 air traffic controllers would keep working, as would many of the Federal Aviation Administration's 6,100 technicians who maintain the air traffic control system. (flightaware.com) 更多...
