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A thing of grace and beauty
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by
OFSO » Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:41 pm
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Today's 737NG from Perpignan to Stansted sat on the north west end of the runway today with engines idling for twenty minutes as a thunder-storm...
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Last post by MoreAviation
Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:02 pm
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Martin Baker to be prosecuted for RAF pilot's death...
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by MoreAviation » Mon Sep 26, 2016 2:10 pm
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Martin Baker's ejector seats have been saving lives (and have saved the life of at least one poster here on ops-normal to my knowledge) for well over...
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I correct the last post to the extent that is not the MOD that is chasing Martin Baker but the HSE. What is interesting is that the HSE is not...
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Last post by MoreAviation
Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:45 am
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More African Shenanigans!
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by MoreAviation » Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:27 am
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Seen on 'African Bush Pilots' on the book of faces.
Rumoured to have happened in the Northern Cape in South Africa, a C210 fails to get airborne and...
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Seen on 'African Bush Pilots' on the book of faces.
Rumoured to have happened in the Northern Cape in South Africa, a C210 fails to get airborne and...
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Last post by Alisoncc
Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:59 am
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Kenyan police Augusta Westland 139
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by MoreAviation » Sat Sep 10, 2016 2:49 am
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A brand new AW139 just purchased by the Kenyan police crashed two days ago. The crew were injured but survived. What do the helicopter...
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Only in Africa.... the technical details (and English in the report) are somewhat eccentric but one can get the gist!
The latest crash of a police...
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Last post by MoreAviation
Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:49 am
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New entry in Guinesss Book of Records
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by
Boac » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:48 am
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Trigana Air have applied for 'the fastest jet powered sledge' record.
Watch from around 20 seconds. Not nice, waiting on the taxyway.............
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Wow !
With that performance, they would win gold at the winter olympics ! :D
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Last post by 500N
Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:58 am
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737 Cowl Separation...
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by MoreAviation » Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:46 am
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Avherald reporting this incident...
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, registration N766SW performing flight WN-3472 from New Orleans,LA to...
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DanAir had the second fanblade failure on a 737-400 in 1989 shortly after the British Midland accident at Kegworth. The crew shut down the engine on...
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Last post by Boac
Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:13 am
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Hannes Arch killed in helicopter crash...
by MoreAviation » Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:26 am
Austrian Red Bull race pilot Hannes Arch has reportedly died in a helicopter crash in the Austrian Alps, in the Grossglockner mountain area.
Police...
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Last post by MoreAviation
Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:26 am
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Last post by msdad2
Mon Aug 29, 2016 5:32 pm
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South African aerobatic champion killed
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by MoreAviation » Sat Aug 27, 2016 10:44 am
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2016 World Intermediate Aerobatic Champion, South African, Michel Leusch was killed while displaying at Zhangye Ganzhou Airport today.
He was flying...
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Wow - if that was the opening sequence of the video it looked pretty decisive. A big loss.
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Last post by Boac
Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:23 am
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Air Maroc take off
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Boac » Thu Aug 25, 2016 9:49 am
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Interesting video going the rounds at the moment - looks as if they rotated a few knots short of a Vr?
Air Maroc
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My BS meter did flicker................ I can think of better ways of avoiding known wake turb.
My vote is ZFW put into TOW slot for some reason....
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Last post by MoreAviation
Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:42 pm
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Turbulent display team member gets wet...
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by MoreAviation » Mon Aug 15, 2016 6:07 pm
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Shaken but not stirred...
Kudos to the guys who freed him so quickly... The Turbulent is reputed to be a lot of fun but is always on the point...
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Kudos to the guys who freed him so quickly...
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Kudos to that first guy who used his brains and muscle to immediately start lifting the aircraft...
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Last post by 500N
Mon Aug 15, 2016 6:11 pm
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Griffin down in Snowdonia...
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by MoreAviation » Tue Aug 09, 2016 6:17 pm
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An RAF helicopter has burst into flames on a Snowdonia peak after being forced to land due to a technical problem.
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It'll buff out ;) :D
The Chinook boys now have a real recovery to do ?
Chinook? Oh, you mean the Shit-Hook. :D
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Last post by rgbrock1
Thu Aug 11, 2016 12:16 pm
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Bugatti 100p build project ends in fatal crash
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by MoreAviation » Sun Aug 07, 2016 6:48 am
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It was really sad to read that American pilot and aircraft restorer Scotty Wilson was killed while conducting the third test flight of the Bugatti...
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been sexy enough for Europe in the Art Deco period
True! It is a rather beautiful futuristic looking aircraft, fit more for the pages of a Tintin...
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Last post by MoreAviation
Wed Aug 10, 2016 5:32 am
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Balloon goes down - 16 dead...
by MoreAviation » Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:34 pm
Sad news at what must be one of the worst balloon crash tolls in history...
A hot air balloon has crashed with at least 16 people on board in...
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Last post by MoreAviation
Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:34 pm
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Last post by 500N
Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:48 am
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A bridge too soon!
by MoreAviation » Thu Jul 21, 2016 1:13 pm
Five people have been killed after a seaplane crashed into a bridge in Shanghai.
The Cessna 208 was carrying 10 people on its maiden flight when the...
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Last post by MoreAviation
Thu Jul 21, 2016 1:13 pm
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Fire on board
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by
ExSp33db1rd » Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:18 pm
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A friend has just written to say that he was flying into Denver last week on a well known US airline, and on the descent he heard a loud bang from...
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From 'Battery University'. (Not a joke.)
If a Li-ion battery overheats, hisses or bulges, immediately move the device away from flammable materials...
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Last post by rgbrock1
Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:54 pm
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Bit breezy in Minsk?
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by
Boac » Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:30 pm
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I'll leave the METARS to others, but it looks as if double chocking would have been useful....
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Surprised at the age of that Antonov, is it really 55 years old?
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Last post by Capetonian
Wed Jul 13, 2016 7:50 pm
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Yak52 crashes
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Boac » Mon Jul 11, 2016 12:14 pm
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The recent fatal involving an ETPS pilot caused me to enter Yak52 into search and I was surprised by the number of crashes involving this aircraft. I...
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Thanks - 17 hours more than me!
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Last post by Boac
Wed Jul 13, 2016 1:57 pm
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Landing at the wrong airport
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by
Boac » Sat Jul 09, 2016 8:05 am
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Delta appear to have done it - an Airbus 320. Thanks to AvHerald .
It really begs the question, doesn't it? In the days of minimal navigational...
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... acccepting the predictive spelling result,
that's even more evil than the internet. My elderly Father almost transferred a wrong sum...
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Last post by probes
Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:56 am
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Boeing 777-300ER - Singapore Airways fire
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by
Alisoncc » Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:03 am
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A plane carrying 241 people has caught fire as it made an emergency landing at Singapore’s Changi Airport.
Passenger on Singapore Airlines Flight...
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From TOP ...to paraphrase "If it ain't boeing...I'm not going"
Is now "If it ain't glowing...it's not a Boeing" ..... ha hahahha
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Last post by Fliegenmong
Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:51 am
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There's a hole..............
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by
Boac » Sun Jun 12, 2016 5:14 pm
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Gatwick has at last one hole in the main runway - the airport authorities are looking into it.. =))
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That job (PPO) is so stressful. They would go out in the morning all cool and calm and come back on to the aircraft in the evening completely washed...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:32 pm
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Thunderbirds crash
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Boac » Sat Jun 11, 2016 9:03 am
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The hot rumour is that the team ran short of fuel during the 'performance' and the engine just flamed out on finals on this one, hence no fire. Not...
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I claim the naming 'Blunderbirds' =))
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Last post by Boac
Sat Jun 11, 2016 2:47 pm
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Fatal light aircraft accident in N Yorkshire...
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by MoreAviation » Sat Apr 30, 2016 3:43 pm
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Two men died when a light aircraft attempted a crash landing in North Yorkshire - just yards from a main road.
The aircraft was travelling near the...
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This is still an improvement over the predecessor Bulldog RAF basic trainer, which would go into a flat spin and not recover WHATEVER you did about 1...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Sun Jun 05, 2016 11:25 pm
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USN Blue Angels Crash
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by
limeygal » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:37 pm
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Blue Angels a/c crashed during a practice in Nashville, TN. Reports are one dead, so far unidentified. A/C's # 1-5 safely on the ground. Reports are...
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A crew from our squadron flew a static display aircraft to Ramstein in 1988.
The junior pilot said "Let's go watch the Frecce from centre"....
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Sun Jun 05, 2016 11:15 pm
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