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Cessna T-50 Crane Soon Bound for Canada

Vintage Aviation News

Under Bibber’s ownership, the Crane accumulated an additional 400 flight hours. Photo via Scott Thompson Several years ago, Bibber sold the T-50 to a buyer in the United Kingdom with initial plans to attempt a transatlantic ferry flight.

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Ditching Demystified: What Every Pilot Should Know About Landing on Water

Flying Magazine

Staying within two miles of shore might have prevented the ditching, but this is one of those cases where the pilot really stacked the deck against a favorable outcome: no medical, no BFR, and the airplane’s last annual inspection had been nine years earlier. Do you really want to give it another opportunity?

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