Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

However, right from the start of the year, this figure would have been significantly higher but for pilot professionalism, improved aircraft technology, and, of course, a dose of good fortune. A pilot was killed, one person was seriously injured and two more suffered minor injuries. There were four crew members on board.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Thousands of L-4s remained in the US for the duration of WWII, training pilots and serving liaison duties for Army units in training. The surviving examples did find use in the post-war era, training thousands of pilots in the former European and Pacific theaters. 1,801 of that number were L-4H variants.

Firewall

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Power-off stalls can be anxiety-inducing for student pilots when they first experience them. As a result, a power-on stall is nerve-wracking for student pilots because it features a very high pitch angle, especially with full engine power. There are very obvious indications the pilot receives of an impending stall.

Stability

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When spelled geoduck it represents a grotesque, oversized mollusk, or clam to we pilot simpletons. Much depends on the aircraft’s weight, pilot skill and, surprisingly, “how much abuse you want to experience. Checking the oil is the main attraction to the pilot. The airplane will handle more than you want to.”

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

While LSAs in general have been tagged for having slightly underbuilt landing gearone of the more common accident scenarios is a newly transitioned pilot not managing the slickness of this kind of airplane and wiping out the gear during a botched landingthe goal is for the F2 to be unusually robust. More lessons learned.

Rudder