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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...

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

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/

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/

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...

This is what happens when your union cranks up your wages too high - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/japan-airlines-tests-having-robots-instead-of-humans-handle-travelers-luggage/

I am excited to take a trip up to MN and IL this week in the S35. Enroute I will be trying out the Garmin inReach Mini2 communicator. Supposedly this does a better job inflight with messaging than a cell phone and also permits tracking position more reliably than ADS-B by using the Iridium...

I think a good thing - https://avbrief.com/faa-ends-see-and-avoid-for-helicopters-at-busy-airports/

https://skyfix.aero/

This seems to me like it could cause accidents by people mistakenly thinking clearance is guaranteed. https://avbrief.com/garmin-guided-visuals-decoded

So we always wear parachutes when doing aerobatic flight and often in gliders. So I thought it might be a good idea to get some training in how to do a proper parachute jump, just in case. Went out this morning to do the first step, which is a tandem jump with an instructor. The view when you...

So my wife bought me for Christmas a coaster made from a piece of the fuselage of the Gimli Glider. Fun.

Interesting article about invention of the process to produce high octane fuels - https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/wizard-octane-0

Just pilot on board and non-fatally injured. https://apnews.com/article/new-hampshire-plane-crash-26a664667bc4acc28d527acd6b53dbb9

This is a great book which explains the underlying physics of flight from an intuitive perspective. Very accessible no matter what your comfort level with math. https://a.co/9zlDYDV

https://apnews.com/article/australia-parachute-entangled-ff6a37bbeb8af80718114a9b379b7b49

Strange re-use https://luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff/kuala-lumpur-airport-abandoned-boeing-747-12062025.php

A question for the season. What is the approximate power in horsepower being produced by Santa’s reindeer to pull his flying sleigh?