Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived. The plane entered a descending right-hand turn.

Runway 301

Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The listed entry airspeed range is 87 to 97 knots. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

True Airspeed 88

True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 88

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The listed entry airspeed range is 87 to 97 knots. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

True Airspeed 86

True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 86

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

But my goal was to fly the airliners that, as a child, I watched climbing out from La Guardia Airport over our Bronx apartment. A student’s properly demonstrated recovery showed that he understood that the rudder was the last control surface to lose effectiveness and the first to return, followed by the ailerons and elevator in that order.

Cockpit 98

Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Even at 60 knots over VY, we were still climbing at a rate that would shock the private students we’d just left below and behind in the pattern. Giant ailerons could whip the world around me with a 400-degree roll rate, and the thing would tolerate plus or minus 10 Gs, breaking yours truly long before any structure failed.

Aileron 52

Aileron Rudder Airplanes Knot 52

Air Facts

JUNE 21, 2024

Nowadays, I feel even sorrier for him, because I see on Linkedin that he’s a first officer at a regional airline. As my buddy, who used to be a captain for Trans States, said “Flying in the airlines is like driving a car into a garage with someone you don’t like and staring out the windshield at the wall for four hours.” He agreed.

Rudder 75

Rudder Crosswind Knot Aileron 75

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. Business aircraft operate like quasi-airlines, blazing creative trails to folly. The digital flight data recorder (DFDR) data indicated that the captain attempted takeoff at a rotation speed 23 knots slower than the calculated rotation speed Anything else? Thats FA tenacity.

Pilot 52

Pilot Airplanes Runway Descent 52