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

Flying Magazine

But pilots like to be prepared for whatever might happen, so some theory is important. The pilot and one passenger suffered minor injuries; another passenger was uninjured. Credit: Jim Wolper] Prevention Is the Best Cure In another example, I was a contract second pilot on a King Air. A ditching and swell diagram.

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Vintage Flying Machines Acquires AD-5W Skyraider For Its Growing Collection

Vintage Aviation News

Preparing for the Ferry Flight As part of the aircrafts transition to its new home, Job Savage is undergoing a thorough checkout process under the instruction of Tony Wood, a seasoned pilot known for flying the Cavanaugh Flight Museums Skyraiders. Marine Corps markings, which it still wears today.

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Bomber Camp

Plane and Pilot

When training is complete, the students are assigned to their flight crews and given safety briefs before loading aboard Ye Olde Pub. Warbird pilots Mike Oliver and Doug Griffin start the engines after first pre-oiling and priming each engine, setting the mixtures to idle-cutoff and the magnetos off. Only three more to go. Former U.S.

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Russian investigators blame faulty sensor for Superjet crash 

Aerotime

The aircraft, which was operating a ferry flight between Tretyakovo Airport (ICAO: UUMT), where it had been undergoing maintenance, and Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport (VKO), crashed in a forested area in the Kolomensky district near the Russian capital, causing the death of the three crew members onboard.