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Another Small-Plane Parachute Save
Thanks to many people who have written in, over the past 24 hours, about another parachute-save episode involving a Cirrus…
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Our Newest National Monument, From the Air
In our American Futures section, I’ve just described President Obama’s creation today of three new National Monuments. You can read…
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A Quality-Lit Version of the Aerial View
Last week I mentioned that one theme of our ongoing American Futures travel had been the distinctive view of America…
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How a Controller Sounds When Trying to Save an Airplane
Yesterday the ceilings were low and the weather was bad across the southeastern United States. In these circumstances, a Cirrus…
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Local Pilot Makes Good: Congrats Ken Griffey Jr.!
Ken Griffey Jr. and I have a lot in common. For one, we are both living American males. And then…
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In Which I Agree With Senator Inhofe
I have not always been in perfect alignment with the policy views of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Snowball). But here…
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Is the New Chinese Airliner a Kind of Flying iPhone?
Earlier this week China’s state commercial-aerospace company, known as COMAC, rolled out the new C919 airliner it has been…
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Associated Press A Former Walmart CEO Comes Down Under a Parachute
How a unique small aircraft (appears to have) saved those aboard
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China Launches the C919! Should Boeing and Airbus Look Out?
Today the long-planned Chinese rival to Boeing and Airbus, the C919, made its debut in Shanghai. Huzzah…
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A Triage Guide to Thinking About the Russian Airliner Crash Over Egypt
The Atlantic’s Krishnadev Calamur has a wrap-up of the latest news, rumors, statements, and so on about the Russian…
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The Return of ExIm?
In the flurry of intra-Republican Party warfare last week, there was one clearly positive development. That was the decision…
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An Airline Captain Dies in Flight
Early Monday morning the captain of an American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Boston died while at the controls. Mary…
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The 3-D View of Swimming Through the Sky
From my Cirrus pilots’ bulletin board, this delightful video, from professional pilot and flight instructor Caitlin Farley, of an approach…
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Wikimedia What an F-16 Pilot Sees—and Misses
Two experienced fighter pilots on suspending judgment about the latest aviation disaster, and the operating realities of the Air Force jet that rammed into a little civilian airplane
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From Top Gun / YouTube Can the 'Right Stuff' Become the Wrong Stuff?
More on the F-16 and Cessna crash, and whether the collision of a military and a civilian aircraft was also a collision of cultures
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters Civilian and Military Aviation Styles: Do They Explain Anything About the F-16 and Cessna Crash?
A veteran Air Force fighter pilot really disagrees with what I said about a tragic recent crash. Very politely, I disagree back.
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Wikimedia Books by Friends: Skyfaring, America's Moment, Republic of Conscience
What to read about the long-forgotten elegance of flight, the under-appreciated economic potential of America, and the perhaps-fixable corruption of politics
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17th century illustration from Athanasius Kircher’s La Chine, ... The Importance of a Careful Pre-Flight, Cat Fancier Edition
Stowaways come in all forms and sizes. But very few can match this one for sangfroid.
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YouTube 'Mayday! Emergency Landing. We're on Fire.'
We all like to think we’d be calm in times of great pressure. Here is how it looks when people really are.
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Library of Congress Today's Aviation News: The Good and the Weird
How a demonstration of calm competence becomes a "terrifying" episode
