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This is an interesting case of what happens when you try and prevent very rare events. The unintended consequences can easily become the dominant negative and worse than what you were trying to prevent in the first place. I suppose autonomous jetliners with the possibility of remote override...

I do wonder about that. Say you are stalling because you are at way too high an angle of attack and near the ground. Would pushing rather than simply releasing gain you some needed time? The flip side of course would be that you overdo it and force yourself into the ground.

I am not quite sure I understand the point Jim. I don’t think I ever fly with full back trim. Are you saying that you usually have to be flying pulling back to get the plane to stall, so just releasing pressure should put the nose down?

One of the things I always emphasize to students is that if you have a feeling that something is going wrong with the plane, put the nose down. It is almost always the right answer and should be essentially subconscious. One student would say this saved his life when the aircraft started...

Looks like I will be buying a Citabria 7GCBC to replace it.

Yes the winning buyer came by to pick it up just last week. It is going up to Washington state where he will be rebuilding it over some time.

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