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Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Investigating what caused the tragedy

Aerotime

What should have been a routine flight turned into a tragedy after a part of the tail assembly failed. Again, the 88 passengers and crew entered a steep dive, hurtling towards the bay at more than 200 knots. The MD-83 was a revised version of the popular DC-9, a rear-engined passenger jet with a distinctive T-tail design.

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5 Features That Make The Icon A5 Such A Unique Aircraft

Simple Flying

With a maximum speed of 95 Knots (109 MPH, 176 km/h), the aircraft features an angle of attack indicator and a T-tail to keep the elevator and rudder in the propeller slipstream. The ICON A5 is an amphibious light-sport aircraft (LSA) that inspires recreational pilots, handling water landings with full (30-degree) flaps.

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Pilot, Know Thyself: Discovering What It Means to Be Painfully Average

Flying Magazine

minutes, covered 1,722 nm at an average ground speed of 511 knots, and burned 22,200 pounds of jet-A. Below 500 feet I got a bit slow, momentarily down to 147 knots, versus a reference speed of 144 and target of 152. On a typical flight I taxi at a maximum of 21 knots, rotate at 1.9 I hand-flew the first 13.3

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Game On!

Plane and Pilot

The Texas winds were gusting anywhere from 15-25 knots, and like other aerobatic airplanes, the canopy can be easily blown off. After a few seconds, Ill lift the tail and then add full power. Within a couple of seconds, I could feel that the tail was ready to come up, so I added just a touch of forward stick pressure.

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The Ercoupe

Plane and Pilot

Many years ago, while working my way through college pumping avgas at the local airport, I discovered that one of our university deans owned a diminutive two-seat, twin-tailed airplanean Ercoupe. ERCO), Weick refined the design into the low-wing, twin-tailed beauty whose distinctive looks are unmistakable.

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Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

Aerotime

TSB Approach sequence Due to reported wind gusts as the CRJ900 approached Toronto Pearson following a flight from MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport (MSP) the aircraft was flown at 149 knots. seconds before touchdown the aircrafts indicated airspeed was 136 knots, and its ground speed was 111 knots.

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Two Delta aircraft collide on taxiway at Salt Lake City International Airport 

Aerotime

Right now, for the Delta 1304, we have four knots too much tailwind. While starting a right turn to Hotel 12 for takeoff, the aircraft’s wing collided with the A320’s tail in front. A recording of the conversation between a pilot of the DL1304 and air traffic control was uploaded to YouTube.