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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...
Flight missed taxiway touchdown by 59 feet
Details have emerged about the incident last month at San Francisco airport where an A320 airliner nearly landed on a taxiway that was occupied...
Fuel exhaustion brought down Cold War pilot
It’s 40 years exactly since the death of a minor, but celebrated, cast member in the drama of the Cold War. Gary Powers survived...
Dancing with the STARs*
Kreisha Ballantyne explores the relationship between regular public transport and general aviation aircraft in class G airspace.
In early January 2011, I excitedly undertook a...
Suspected ‘drone’ was bad luck for bat
The ‘drone strike’ widely reported to have taken place at Parafield airport, near Adelaide, has turned out to be a bat strike.
DNA analysis by...
