Recent content by PeterNSteinmetz

We don't have the puzzled emoji...

Do they know what happened? It looks like maybe taking off and lost power?

So it looks like this deadline will move. I can’t say I am surprised as compatibility with the existing fleet is a tall order. To an extent this is due to regulations holding back engine development. How long has lead been gone in automobile fuel? I am also now wondering - how hard is it...

Gradually the use of voice over the radio is shrinking.

Acoustic analysis suggesting they may have been looking in the wrong places. Seems like someone should search this other relatively small location. https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/airlines/a71923663/mh370-missing-plane-search-new-clue/

They founds the wreck. There were 52 drowning deaths after impact. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-1950s-airplane-disaster-prompted-the-flight-safety-demonstrations-passengers-know-today-seachers-just-found-the-wreckage-in-the-atlantic-ocean-180989170/

https://apnews.com/article/alaska-bush-pilot-supreme-court-d468e25e545596f18fed8ca653b16205

Kubrick was a genius certainly.

Very likely treatable. I think you would need to be further along in your training to think of hard slipping toward that door to keep it closed. https://avbrief.com/instructor-jumps-from-150-student-lands-safely/

He finally got his airplane back. The issue of the tribe claiming authority to do this is not fully resolved - https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2026/june/11/minnesota-tribe-returns-airplane-seven-months-after-seizure

Given the recent number of landings on roads in the Phoenix metro area, a local wag made up the following guide:

This sounds like a substantial improvement based on a sort of micro roughness - https://www.wired.com/story/a-fundamental-principle-of-aeronautical-engineering-has-been-overturned/

Appeals court finds the companies liable - not much of a fine though for an incident which should have bankrupted AF out of business. https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/air-france-airbus-convicted-manslaughter-155046838.html

There is also this article - https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/2/1/10

So it looks like the odds of an engine just failing are about 10-20 per 100k hours of flight. That is not much for the typical GA pilot over their lifetime or for people training and just moving on to turbines. But it adds up if you like flying small airplanes and accumulate several thousand...