Update: Ural Airlines Plans To Fly A320 Out Of Field! By Spyros Georgilidakis | September 17, 2023 Initially, the information we had was that the flight went around during its final approach into Omsk, because of a hydraulic issue. It now seems that this was inaccurate. The airline and Russian auth...

The comments about this Rural landing are instructive. (another commenter came up with that new name for the airline.) Examples: By ATC on Wednesday, Sep 13th 2023 10:31Z Russians need lots of spare parts, so this aircraft gonna be a donor for other stolen ones. Wrong decision, good landing By dezso...

Who can identify the engine. I think it sounds like an MD 88
Skip to about 2.50.

https://youtu.be/_EVvuehRZp0

Excerpt US President Joe Biden is currently visiting Vietnam, and has met with Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. During their meeting, it was revealed that government owned carrier Vietnam Airlines has placed an order for 50 Boeing 737 MAXs, worth $7.8 billion at list prices. Additional detail...

Railroads are a lot like the military - filled with instructions to guide people who are not always under immediate supervision. See below for instructions to Pullman waiters on how to serve a bottle of beer. Regarding recent flooding from Hurricane Hillary, the following drone footage shows washout...

The NTSB says a balloon pilot was likely impaired by cannabis and cocaine when he and four passengers died in a sightseeing flight in Albuquerque in June of 2021. In its final report (search WPR21FA242 here) on the accident, the board cited the drug use as a contributing factor. “The pilot’s cavity ...

Boeing Relies on MD Airframe for Advanced Experimental Design or Boeing Punishes Former Competitor With New Design Boeing To Begin Modifying An MD-90 To Fly With Experimental Truss-Braced Wing The modifications will form part of testing for Boeing's X-66A program, which it hopes will reduce greenho...

"...stranded in Indonesia after rats chewed on internal cabling onboard one of the A340s." :o An 319 stranded the German Minister of Foreign Affairs a few years ago too. https://www.aviation24.be/military-aircraft/german-air-force/airbus-a319-breaks-down-in-mali-german-minister-of-foreign...

Our brave correspondent was piloting a Cirrus. Why not just have deployed the chute and landed "full stop" right on the taxiway?

Leaving aside the airship reference, there is this further down under Crime and Detectives. John was a police officer, and Mary was a serial killer, and just like that you think you know how that’s going to end, don’t you; well, John lived in New York and Mary lived in London, and they were both mod...

Here is a pretty good book i picked up a number of years ago. Written in 1962 it discusses all aspects of a TWA 707 flight including preparing the plane and the background of the 5 crew members. The pilot met Charles Lingberg and First Officer flew bombers in WWII. The navigator (shown in the book u...

Regarding the 5-man B377 crew, navigators were used up until the early 1960's - they even used sextants that would poke through a small hole in the roof of the cockpit. So that addresses one person. I believe some longer-distance flights also had a second officer. So there you go.

Little struts that are discolored, if not melted, by jet blast are one thing, but look at what the competition is doing: Airbus’s Future Planes Will Have See-Through Ceilings So You Can .... (Collect additional solar radiation) While You Fly Actually the headline says, "Gaze at the stars,"...

Since our Mr. Snappy is currently otherwise engaged, I'll supply his answer. Nothing but Western Misinformation. Superior airmanship in Mother Russia makes this a non-story. Of course the comments in the article might be instructive. Here from Bill K: I believe the mistake being made about brakes be...

I assume it was some sort of a technical flight with a Boeing crew but it was an interesting set of maneuvers.

I don't know what the fuss is all about. Here is an article about a woman taking things into her own hands, as it were, after supposedly not beling allowed to use the lavatory by the FA.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/s ... s-30553888

Here is flight information for a Max 8 flying on a 2-hour flight out of Everette, WA. Examine the altitude and air speed chart - looks like the crew was fighting the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System for much of the flight. During the loop they got down to 1800 feet. Oh the humanity. h...

Although I'm self-loading baggage, i found a good deal on a carryon bag from the following website. They also sell transceivers, watches, luggage tags made from aircraft aluminum, headsets (new and used), socks, caps, etc. I have no affiliation with them and receive no benefit from anyone purchasing...

Here is an interesting 1958 photograph of a wealthy party that travelled to DC 3 from the San Francisco Bay Area to a hunting lodge near Yerington, NE (on the eastern slope of the Sierra Mountains). Along the way they rode in a 1955 Pontiac Star Chief sedan. Read the interesting comments below the p...

Azul (Brazilian LCC) to Retire A350 Fleet? Sorry the website does not allow cutting and pasting, but the article says that local media has stated, "Azul sees the A350 as an airplane with very high maintenance and operational costs even through it has some of the best fuel burn performances in t...

Not to worry. The following article says that Delta may be retiring them soon - or it may not. While Delta has a considerable number of Boeing 717s at its disposal, not all of them are in use. Indeed, 65 are listed as being active by ch-aviation, with six undergoing maintenance and 19 in storage. Th...

Here is a video of her as first officer. What a wonderful opportunity for a youngster!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlvyRN9IDLw

That was fun. Little girl did a great job.

Frankly, I'm concerned, although we certainly cannot verify the accuracy of this article. Little Sister Takes Charge as Kim Jong Un Morphs Into Vegas-Era Elvis Presley Little sister Kim Yo Jong appears to have taken over many of Kim Jong Un’s duties with the North Korean leader reportedly giving up ...

The article has a number of photographs - as it is behind a paywall, here is an excerpt about the crash investigation and the pilot. National Transportation Safety Board investigators spent Tuesday at a Virginia crash site, combing through the wreckage of a plane linked to a sonic boom heard across ...