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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/air-space-museum/2025/04/07/a-beautiful-biplane-represents-a-future-that-never-was/

My 1964 S35 Bonanza has an old Brittain B5 autopilot. If it worked I would find this sort of quaint and fitting with the aircraft. However, the vacuum lines are apparently in fairly bad shape and so it seems unlikely to be worthwhile to replumb the whole thing hoping the controller will work. I...

Everyone survives with one hypothermic adult. I have flown these and they are fun planes. I am puzzled by the statement that there was no ELT. Maybe they just mean it did not activate? One reason why I always carry a personal locator beacon (PLB) on my person when flying cross- or...

I have been working on flying with the G1000 and the GFC500 autopilot in an SR20. Does anyone know of a good diagram of the states and modes of these? The manual has a lot of very detailed descriptions along the line of - to do this, take these steps - but I would like something more like a...

asperatus undulatus Clouds over Illinois https://archive.ph/wrBe2

https://www.foxnews.com/us/southwest-plane-forced-go-back-gate-passenger-strips-naked

I have been having this discussion with my powered airplane flight instructor. In Arizona. Is the desert with shrubs or a plowed field preferred for an emergency off airport landing?

I was just out doing my checkout flight this AM in this new to me ship. It is fast and I sometimes felt like “what have I done?”. Happy with the purchase so far.

2 fatalities. RIP This airport is scheduled for a control tower due to traffic. I fly in there with some frequency. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/478760

A beautiful day to fly to brunch at Susie’s Cafe in Prescott AZ. A very long wait to take off again with all the Embry Riddle planes. This is snow on the Granite Dells just north of town. This rock is the pre-Cambrian shield and some of the oldest exposed rock on the planet. And yes, that is...

Does anyone know of a list of VORs in the US and their lat/long coordinates? I can find the list of all the VORs and their identifiers, but nothing with coordinates.

Wow. No news yet on casualties. https://apnews.com/article/ronald-reagan-national-airport-crash-cebb142d24859ba0c4e0e4fd6c33773f

https://vintageaviationnews.com/vintage-aviation/lufthansa-celebrates-the-roll-out-of-lockheed-l-1649a-super-star.html

Has anyone here seen this film? Critic reviews are quite bad and the MetaCritic score is 54, which is well below my normal threshold. But I might make an exception given the subject matter.

I am interested to see an old chart for a VOR RNAV (not GPS) approach if anyone has one. I am about to purchase an aircraft that has an honest to goodness working KNS-80.

Even those clowns in blue could catch this guy. Not worth $10Bn per year though. https://apnews.com/article/pilot-arrested-dui-southwest-d444ead32a45e32b7873f29a6acf4e76

@anonflyer1 notes in the TSA idiocy thread that drones may constitute an emerging terrorist threat. Now clearly drones have been used to serious effect in wars elsewhere, but have there been any terrorist or other criminal attacks using them in the USA?

Thus continuing to destroy whatever level of service they may have had. I never though particularly highly of them and my opinion dropped even more after my brother’s flight home was cancelled and he was delayed 4 hours - https://airlinegeeks.com/2025/01/13/delta-steadfast-in-dei-esg-efforts/

Those who have read my posts here or on other social media will have noted that I sometimes say something appears to be or is a non-falsifiable belief. So I thought I would explain a bit more of my view on these and what they imply for discussions. Falsifiability is an important concept in...

Quite the distance by exploiting winds and lift - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bats-hitch-a-ride-on-storm-fronts-when-migrating-saving-energy-by-surfing-through-the-sky-study-finds-180985823/