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Wrong number led to take-off trauma
A Boeing 737-800 struck a 35cm high runway marker at Belfast International (Aldergrove) Airport, in Northern Ireland, after the wrong temperature was entered into a flight management...
A sweeter biofuel for aviation
A new strain of oil-producing sugarcane could be used to produce a more environmentally friendly and cheaper aviation biofuel, according to recently-published US research.
And...
Baggage handlers have an eye on the future
Baggage handlers at Changi airport are to use augmented reality (AR) glasses for faster, safer and more reliable loading of aircraft.
About 600 ramp staff...
FSA readers’ survey
In August 2017, we surveyed readers of Flight Safety Australia (FSA) magazine about their preferences for delivery and frequency of FSA, which since 2012,...
Vintage helicopter video: a model of thoroughness
Kick back with a 1950s US Army training film on how to fly a Sikorsky H-19. What better way to spend 25 minutes on...
Flight Safety Australia September–October 2017 out now!
For September–October 2017 Flight Safety Australia asks whether electric aircraft are a fad or the future of aviation. The Australian and international experts we...
Airworthiness
Hot and confused
A tangle of misinformation about engine bay flammable fluid flexible hoses needs clearing up
Dangerous ideas are not always outrageous. Sometimes they arise out of...
Rationalising airworthiness
Thomas P. Turner
The pilot of a vintage Cessna 120 taildragger noticed over time that the aeroplane’s battery would not always hold a charge. It...
The cable saga
In the five years since a very near miss put the issue of flight control deterioration into clear focus, sixty-one unserviceable and potentially dangerous...
