Airline Indicated Airspeed Stability 
One Mile at a Time
MARCH 20, 2025
degrees Less than one second before touchdown, the plane had an indicated airspeed of 134 knots, a ground speed of 111 knots, a bank angle of 7.1 Obviously it was gusty, but if youre not able to stabilize an approach, thats when a go around would ordinarily be performed. These details should be revealed in subsequent reports.
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
This particular 172 normally cruised at 120 mph indicated airspeed, but with the ice it would barely do 90 mph and that required full throttle! A few minutes later, we heard the center controller clear a Trans Missouri Airlines commuter plane for the VOR Runway 30 approach to Jefferson City. What had happened?
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Flying Magazine
JUNE 2, 2025
The none-too-modest aim of Boom Supersonic is to design and manufacture a supersonic airliner, which it calls Overture. Boomless cruise holds out the possibility of flight speeds 50 percent higher than those of subsonic airliners. Boom has said that Overture will enter airline service in 2030. When XB-1 flew at Mach 1.12
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The pilot died instantly.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The pilot died instantly.
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