one of the guys on the pprune forum mentioned this concorde doc. found the link, figured id share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmQic5E0v7w

Some kids have horrible childhoods and grow up to be great people. Some kids have great childhoods and grow up to be the next sadistic serial rapist/murderer. I suspect that the same is true of pilot training. People either take advantage of good experiences, and overcome bad ones, or they don't. a...

The theory is that since the joysticks in an airbus arent linked, the captain and the cruise captain couldnt tell that the junior pilot was yanking back during most of the stall. I know nothing of airbuses, who gets control authority when the sticks are moved in different directions? http://video.fo...

I stand corrected

All I was getting at was
to damp = to muffle/absorb
to dampen = to moisten

'water is used to dampen the noise from the exhaust gases' how does that help?

Problem #1 NON-PROFIT
competition tends to keep you honest!

for now just a change in ownership and a boatload of oil money...few years, who knows?

heres another recent thread on Diemert with some cool pics http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.ph ... t=defender

I found that very interesting, I tried to do a little research on Mr. Diemert and it was heartening to see this comment from december 2010 in response to an article about the film; "I want a copy of this film, Bobs wife in the film is an aunt of mine, I know them very well and talked to Bob just yes...

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/IcingCitedInTBM700FreewayCrash_205909-1.html December 20, 2011 Icing Cited In TBM-700 Freeway Crash Email this article |Print this article By Mary Grady, Contributing editor All five people on board a Socata TBM-700 were killed Tuesday morning after the single-en...

What I suspect happened is the thing simply had an engine failure and glided to a landing. That would explain the relatively intact nature of what they displayed. Exactly, one of many failures could have thrown the thing into a flat spin or a falling leaf mode where it could come out in nearly one ...

"He said employees and tenants of the Buttonville airport have already been notified of the airport’s 2013 closure."

Good to know.. I must have missed that memo.

Sorry to head about that dan, maybe time to relocate out to bc?

..or phiner or finger... wish i could actually read the language

great control, pilot saved a beautiful airplane with quick response. on the note of such a great nazi killer, niss, does your signature say feind or find and what does that mean?...my hebrew isnt that great

Awesome!! You were on the plane!! Can you tell us more about the incident? You know how the media leaves out the good stuff. Wtf is up with this attitude? Nark being logical and clearly smarter than you, made the assumption that on this airline flight there were 2 pilots. Now when one gets up to ta...

your story reminded me of this one I read a while back, couldve turned out a lil worse than your situation though I Learned About Flying From That: Lessons Learned By Gerald Owens / Published: Aug 30, 2010 Enlarge Photo Photo: Illustrated by Barry Ross The simple logbook entry read "installed rectif...

He was caught with his pants down. A pilot who accidentally locked himself in the bathroom of his LaGuardia-bound plane caused a terror scare last night when a helpful passenger with an accent tried to come to his rescue by banging on the cockpit door. The embarrassing comedy of errors began when th...

I did about half my license on a katana and the other half on 150/172s, now ive never flown behind any glass but I do have a pretty good comparison of new vs. old (mostly 60s model cessnas). To start out, they are all airplanes and fly accordingly, yes both have their quirks but I'd be lying if I wa...