I had my handheld radio on today listening to the local traffic at a nearby airfield. This is what I heard.
Airport Unicom, what is your active runway?
For some reason I get all worked up whenever I hear someone ask this. Let’s lay down the situation. This airport has no control tower. There is an ASOS […]
So I’ve flown a ton of Cat III approaches to minimums…. well at last in the simulator. ;) Nonetheless this is a truly amazing video showing from the pilot’s perspective what it is like to fly to a runway in really, really poor visibility conditions.
In England recently an airliner was flown without a pilot in the cockpit to test technology that would turn an airliner into a UAV. The flight lasted about two hours and was designed to see if you could control a fleet of UAVs flying in a pack from one command center.
“The big burning question at […]
Robert Gibson, often known better as Hoot Gibson, is a fairly well known name in aviation circles. Hoot flew on five Space Shuttle missions and was commander on four of them. Hoot is even married to shuttle astronaut Rhea Seddon and was inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame back in 2003. After orbiting […]
I love toys and wish this toy combination was one of my own. Here is some great footage of an RC B-29 Bomber. But this is no ordinary R/C aircraft. Strapped to the belly is an X-1 Rocket which makes an incredible in-flight launch. The B29 also comes equipped with “pilots” who make an emergency […]
Looks like Piper is jumping onto the Personal Jet bandwagon with the newly introduced Piper Jet (known as the PiperJet). The single engine turbofan will be capable of reaching speeds of 360 knots and altitudes of about 35,000 feet. You and five of your friends will be able to fit in the cabin (or six […]
So what do you get when you cross some nerdy equipment, a video camera, an RC aircraft, and the dream to fly? this video from France. As the person on the ground turns their head, the camera turns to “see” what is happening from the perspective of the RC aircraft.
The latest release of X-Plane (currently 8.50 RC-1) has built in support to use a real Garmin G1000 connected to the simulator! The G1000 has an ethernet port that you can use to connect the Garmin to your computer. Then from within X-Plane you can turn on the hardware option for the G1000 and use […]
A couple of Saturdays ago Jay Strokes had a busy day. An avid skydiver, Jay jumped out of a plane 641 times in 24 hours. Jay would bail out of the plane at about 2100 feet, spend about 40 seconds floating back to Earth, and then would jump on the plan again for another ride.
Volunteers […]
Someone forwarded me a link recently to this NPR story where listeners were asked to send in clips of their favorite sounds and talk a bit about why the sound had meaning for me. A reader wrote in talking about the sound of gyros spinning down after a flight. Pretty much everyone here knows that […]
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