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Ints Kalnins / Reuters Civilian and Military Aviation Styles: Do They Explain Anything About the F-16 and Cessna Crash?
A veteran Air Force fighter pilot really disagrees with what I said about a tragic recent crash. Very politely, I disagree back.
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Wikimedia Books by Friends: Skyfaring, America's Moment, Republic of Conscience
What to read about the long-forgotten elegance of flight, the under-appreciated economic potential of America, and the perhaps-fixable corruption of politics
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17th century illustration from Athanasius Kircher’s La Chine, … The Importance of a Careful Pre-Flight, Cat Fancier Edition
Stowaways come in all forms and sizes. But very few can match this one for sangfroid.
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YouTube 'Mayday! Emergency Landing. We're on Fire.'
We all like to think we’d be calm in times of great pressure. Here is how it looks when people really are.
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Library of Congress Today's Aviation News: The Good and the Weird
How a demonstration of calm competence becomes a "terrifying" episode
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Federal Aviation Administration A Pilot Treated for Depression, on Why and How He Flies
"For a young pilot who is looking for a career in the industry, the low-cost market is not a viable long-term option. Many of us are burning out because our employers are treating us in the same way that they treat the aeroplanes." A European pilot on ramifications of the Germanwings crash.
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Wikimedia Commons Can We Learn Anything From the Germanwings Disaster?
A technologist says the day of airliners flown by remote control is closer than we think. Is that good news or bad? Plus, why it's better to be a co-pilot and other lessons from the latest crash.
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Gary Wiepert/Reuters More From Pilots and Doctors on the Germanwings Crash
Cost pressures, alcohol as the only "approved" anti-mental-illness drug, and other ramifications of this murder/suicide
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Reuters What Hypoxia Could Do to Pilots
Explaining a hazard of aviation, in the aftermath of the Germanwings crash
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FlightAware How Air-Traffic Controllers Sound When They Have to Close the Airport
Since most things about the modern airline experience are so unpleasant for most of the traveling public most of the time, it's worth noticing how smoothly these professionals do their work.
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Brian Lockett for Air-and-Space.com Ask and Ye Shall Be Told, Mystery Airplane Edition
Sometimes crowdsourcing pays off.
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James Fallows When I Grow Up ...
Darth Vader vs. Casper the Friendly Ghost, on an airport tarmac
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ABC News, via The Flight Academy Updates: Airplane-Parachute Selfie, the Immortal Boiling Frog, Community College
Ever wonder how it looks if you're inside a plane headed toward the ocean? Wonder no more. Plus: policy news, both bad and good.
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US Coast Guard video The Parachute That Saved a Plane
Who says Pacific cruises aren't interesting?
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NASA Fascinating New Ways of Depicting the Motions of the Air and the Seas
Modern data-based graphics meet the timeless mysteries of the globe.
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WIndyty.com Envisioning a River of Air
Prediction: If you spend a little time on these sites, you will start looking at weather forecasts in an entirely different way.
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Vimeo How to Land an Airplane, If You're Blind
People are capable of a lot.
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All maps from FlightAware What a Wandering Airliner Says About China's Prospects
A Chinese plane was not allowed to land at some Chinese airports. Why that matters.
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Cirrus Aircraft Today's Mid-Air Collision Outside Washington
"This reminds us how vulnerable we all are." Lessons from a tragedy
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FAA Sectional Chart Annals of the Security State, Presidential-Vacations Edition
Protecting modern presidents is a legitimate and crucial goal. Here is some of what it ends up meaning in practice.
