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Tagged 1977, Canada, civil aviation community, discovery tour, eastern ontario, fly-in breakfast, flying clubs, local aerodromes, local towns, Ottawa, Piper PA-12 Supercruiser, recreational flying, summer, weekend flying
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Trans-Pacific Flight into Japan as Major Earthquake Unravels
The following is an account by a presumed DELTA pilot landing soon after a catastrophic earthquake hit in Japan, a month ago today. There is no way to verify the veracity of this account other than by relying on the author’s plain … Continue reading →
Posted in CivAv Reports, CivAv stories and anecdotes
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Tagged airliner, alternate airport, ATC, atc handling, atc response, crew action, delta airlines, fuel remaining, inbound japan, japan, japan earthquake, landing priority, landing tokyo, north pacific crossing, passenger safety, rerouting, reserve fuel, trans-pacific crossing, unusable airport
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Bush Pilots: where the real flying was and is
What is real flying? Tricky question. A good one, though, one that, for the sake of animated discussion, has to do with the essence of flying and deserves a crack at a straight-forward and meaningful answer, especially in the present era of glass cockpits and fly-by-wire control … Continue reading →
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Tagged bush flying, bush pilots, bush planes, float plane, National Geographic, real flying
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New pictures found of pilot and novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Mystery about acclaimed pilot and novelist, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s death deepens after WW2 memorabilia collector’s son hands over photos, unseen so far, of Saint-Exupéry taken before his last flying mission. Nearly anytime people believe that all has been said and told about a deceased … Continue reading →
Crash and Retirement of the Concorde Supersonic Airliner: What Next?
What more can be said by way of generality about Concorde that has not yet been said? Not much, I suppose, especially since criminal hearings are currently underway in Pontoise not far from the crash site. More detailed facts, incriminating or not, about … Continue reading →
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Tagged air france, CDG airport, Concord, Concorde, Concorde crash, concorde design, concorde history, dick rutan, fire on take-off, history of concord, Paris crash, pontoise trial, Roissy airport, sir richard branson, suborbital flight, supersonic air transport, supersonic airliner, supersonic flight, supersonic transport
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