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Here's a collection of some of the interesting and cool stuff that we've featured on our homepage.
| 24 Hours of World Traffic Patterns | 12/17/2008 |
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A cool video of worldwide air traffic patterns over 24 hours |
| B-17 Ride Along! | 10/24/2008 |
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This series of photos shows a flight of a B-17 Flying Fortress over the Los Angles area. Have a look! |
| 777 Heathrow Incident update | 9/4/2008 |
| | We love the 777. It's a beautiful and well designed aircraft. So, we were shocked to hear of the (nonfatal) crash a BA 777 at Heathrow several months back. Now the UK AAIB has come out with a preliminary rerport on the incident. In a word - fuel ice! An interesting read. |
| Parachuting into the wrong stadium? | 8/31/2008 |
| | Ok, this is only marginally aviation-related, but we still found this article about some wayward parachuters to be pretty funny. |
| FAA Extends Medical Validity! | 7/25/2008 |
| | Great news! The FAA has recently decided to extend the duration of medical certificates for those under 40. On July 24, the FAA extended the duration of third class medicals from 36 calendar months to 60 calendar months (five years) and first class medicals from six calendar months to 12 calendar months for pilots under age 40. We will soon make the necessary changes to our pilot logbook software and written test preparation software to account for the changes. UPDATE: this has now been implemented in our Safelog Pilot logbook software and has been addressed in most of our content titles (RideReady, GroundSchool). |
| Skydiver and airplane near miss | 4/23/2008 |
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Check out the video |
| Scary Airbus 320 Go-Around! | 4/3/2008 |
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Amazing video of an A-320 scraping a wing during an aborted landing in high winds in Hamburg |
| Rough and Windy Approach | 3/3/2008 |
|  Check out this rough landing at London City Airport. |
| Aircraft Underwater | 12/5/2007 |
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Check out some amazing photos of aircraft underwater |
| Future blended wing airliner? | 11/21/2007 |
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Boeing X-48B Blended Wing body sub-scale
demonstrator has taken wing. Will it lead to a radical new shape for
commercial airliners of the future? Click here for more images and
information. |
| SimPlates DVD now available! | 10/5/2007 |
| | SimPlates is now avaialble on DVD-ROM (as well as the previously avialable download option). We're really happy at how it came out and th reviews of SimPlates have been excellent. Have a look! |
| Why we Preflight.. | 1/22/2007 |
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| Gulfstream + Quicksand = ... | 5/14/2006 |
| | See what happens when a $45m Gulfstream jet meets a tarmac not designed for its weight. |
| How well do you know aircraft? | 3/25/2006 |
| | Have a try at AviaQuiz - our new Name-that-Plane FREE online game. Test your aircraft identification skills against others on the web! |
| New Aircraft Checklists | 11/23/2005 |
| | Eric Triantafilo's Cessna 206 Super Skywagon checklists are but the newest addition to our Free Aircraft Checklists section. Thanks to Eric and all who contribute! |
| Wright Flyer Pilot's Perspective | 10/28/2005 |
| | Here is an amazing flight video that puts you in the cockpit of the Wright Flyer. |
| Parking Brake set for landing? | 10/23/2005 |
| | USAirways reminds us why it's not a good idea to set the parking brake in the air. See the pictures. |
| JetBlue A320 Landing Gear Photos | 10/7/2005 |
| See some aftermath photos of the JetBlue A320 Landing Gear incident here
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| New Free checklists! | 8/25/2005 |
| | New free checklists - a Spanish-language PA28-140 and an (English) Pa-32-300T Lance checklists are but the latest additions to our 400+ checklist-strong free checklist section. |
| More free Aircraft Checklists | 8/12/2005 |
| | Michael Smith's Robinson R22 helicopter and David Seest's Beech 18 are the latest additions to our free checklists section, where you'll find stuff for everything from a C150 to a 747! |
| Cool under pressure | 8/2/2005 |
| | Here's video that shows a bird being ingested into an engine on takeoff. The crew reacts coolly and calmly before ejecting safely. |
| New Free Aircraft Checklists | 7/31/2005 |
| | a bunch of new free aircraft checklists, weight and balance spreadsheets, and more in our free checklists section. New items include stuff for Cessna 172s and 210s, Cirrus SR22s, Bell 206s, and more! Thank you to all the contributors! |
| How Thorough is Your Passenger Briefing? | 5/6/2005 |
| | Passenger lands plane after pilot has heart attack. In other news, our free passenger safety card is, as always, available for download despite the occasional email we get from 'experts' who claim that it is too detailed and unnecessary. |
| A380 Maiden Flight.. | 4/27/2005 |
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From a pilot and passenger standpoint, this is going to be an amazing aircraft. |
| Flying with Fido | 4/14/2005 |
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As it may well be contrary to some FAR and/or other law, not to mention common sense, please note that we don't endorse the action in this video in any way (so don't try this at home!) You may find this flying with Fido video video to be funny nevertheless. |
| New DA40 and M20C Free Checklists | 4/3/2005 |
| | Jim Price's and Richard Hulme's Mooney M20C and Diamond DA40D checklists are but the latest additions to our free aircraft checklists section. Thanks, guys! |
| New Piper Arrow Checklist - Free for Download | 3/21/2005 |
| | A new Piper Arrow Checklist by Matt Crocker joins the hundreds of others available for free download in our Aircraft Checklists section. |
|  No real reason to post the above picture, but it is vaguely aviation related and we kinda liked it. More neat stuff in our aviation humor section. |
| Look Ma, No Rudder! | 3/9/2005 |
|  ... did you hear that noise? |
| New Free Cessna Checklist | 2/16/2005 |
| | Chris Leary's Excellent Cessna 182P Checklist is the latest addition to our Free Aircraft Checklists section. |
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