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Luck of the bounce
Adrian Park looks at how the holes in an imaginary slice of Swiss cheese were lining up for a tired, but experienced, crew flying...
Skyhacked
In an interconnected world how vulnerable is aviation to cyber threat?
1. The turbulent cybersphere
If you think the sky is a dangerous place, how about...
14 August—18 September 2017
BOEING 717 200–ATA 2780 LEADING EDGE SLAT CONTROL SYSTEM–Flap Track Module–FOD. DR 611750453
Crew unable to extend slats due to plastic object stuck in flap...
Brief weight for flying Finns
Finnair has been asking passengers to step on scales at Helsinki Airport so that it can better estimate its aircraft weight loadings and how...
Have you herd? Tongue lashing follows forced landing on udder side of the Tasman
New Zealand cattle farmer Bryn Whyman was understandably concerned for the safety of his livestock when a light aircraft with only one pilot on...
The best of times
How to get the most out of your pilot’s licence
Kreisha Ballantyne makes the case for making every flying hour one to remember.
Allow me...
Radios—it’s a big sky, but are you listening?
Name withheld by request
Early on in my commercial flying career, I was operating a Cessna 172 on a scenic charter flight will three passengers...
Watts happening: behind the buzz about electric aircraft
It’s an electrifying time for aviation. Or not, depending on whom you speak to. Proposals and prototypes for electric aircraft range from 18 rotor...
Airbus prepares to test tilt-rotor taxi
Airbus will begin testing its Vahana personal electric aircraft in November, according to reports in technology publications.
Vahana is a tilt wing electric air vehicle...
Seeing things
An incident on an aircraft equipped with a synthetic vision system raises unsettling questions about technology, insidious failure and tunnel vision.
Half past one, on...
