The sim instructor set the parking brake on final, so the aircraft lands with the brakes set to 10 of the main tires on touchdown without the pilots knowing. The result is complete loss of directional control on rollout followed by a need to ‘reset’ some systems in the simulator. … MD-11 MD11 Anchorage Alaska [...]
The dreaded and spectacular dificult approach to Madeira island Sata Internacional airbus A320 landing runway 23 … aircraft dificult SATA internacional A320 landing madeira runway 23 cockpit LPMA FNC spectacular approach windy pilots
Boeing 777 takeoff from Jeddah … 777 Aircraft Airplane Arabia Boeing Flying Jeddah Takeoff Saudi Saudia
Concorde cockpit take off from London Heathrow … Concorde Cockpit TakeOff Heathrow Boeing Airbus Aircraft Plane
TVN’s RC Super Hauler aircraft deployed multiple parachute probes into the inflow region of the MONSTER supercell thunderstorm that eventually spawned the Aurora, NE tornado. This same storm produced several tornadoes hours before reaching Aurora, including those captured here, west of Grand Island and northeast of Kearney. For more on the TVN RC plane project, [...]
An aerial video crew observed the October 28, 2009 Ares IX test flight from a Cessna Skymaster aircraft positioned approx. 10 nautical miles away from the vehicle at an altitude of 12000 feet. The videographer used a gyro-stabilized high-definition camera system mounted to the outside of the aircraft to capture this spectacular footage which provides [...]
Bare Essentials of Safety from Air New Zealand for our A320 aircraft
Some big jets departing and arriving in a north easterly direction.
RAF – the starting point
When Alyn Owen left school, he realised his childhood ambition to join the RAF as an Aircraft Technician. While undergoing his extensive training, he gained work ethics and high standards that would remain with him throughout his life. During his time in the RAF, Alyn was responsible for [...]
BMW has a very mixed heritage in terms of when the company was formed. The origin of BMW have been traced to back to the start of the 20th century when a man called Karl Friedrich Rapp, who was a very well known engineer in Germany working for a German aircraft company, set up his [...]