Another YouTube star is born. This time, it’s a runway overshoot on St. Barthélemy’s notoriously short runway 10/28. Several readers drew our attention to this video, and we’ve done an analysis on what went wrong. St. Bart’s is short, all right, but really not that different from a hundred other runways cluttered up with trees, [...]
Having attended his Brother’s funeral with his family, Doug White was heading home as a passenger in a King Air 200. The pilot running through his after takeoff checklists turns to his passenger “Gonna get a little bumpy as we climb through this cloud layer,” Cabuk warned. He began a routine call to air traffic controllers [...]
I will shortly be embarking on a trip from Denham to the Isle of Skye for a Round Table Charter dinner. It is my intention to use a Cirrus SR22 for the trip, with an economy cruise of 155knots and using 12 – 14 US Gallons of AVGas per hour, the flight should last for [...]
Today marks 8 years since the attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. A total of 2,993 people died in the attacks, one of the most cowardly and desperate attacks on freedom and civil liberties of the modern age. They will always be remembered …..