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Don’t Upset the Jet 1
With the arrival of jet powered airliners, commercial pilots entered a new world of high altitude flying in large swept wing aircraft at velocities a…
4 years, 3 months ago
Giants of Ukraine
In the world of Slavic folk tales there are giants in Ukraine but as aviators the ones we are interested are the giants that the fabled aircraft desi…
4 years, 4 months ago
RAF Form 414, Vol 14
It’s logbook time again and you may recall that I was as freshly a minted A1 QFI as there could be and I had just left the training world to return t…
4 years, 4 months ago
Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen and the Crazy Baron!
It was a grand sight to see another German aircraft there, a Junkers W33 with its distinctive corrugated metal skin and stylish enclosed cockpit, a f…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Life Saving Bombers
Instead of a cargo of bored business men and excited holiday makers, this aged DC-10 was carrying 12,000 gallons, thats 45,000 ltrs of bright red liq…
4 years, 5 months ago
Rhumbas and Quarrels
On the last tale, Sidewinders and Sparrows we talked a little about the history of rockets and missiles but it’s a big subject so this week I thought…
4 years, 5 months ago
Sidewinders and Sparrows
Despite their obvious differences, Sidewinders and Sparrows often went together because they aren’t just the names of flying creatures and slithering…
4 years, 6 months ago
Flight 574 and the Banning of Indonesia
It was New Year’s Day, 2007 and the 96 passengers booked on Adam Air Flight 574 from Java to Sulawesi boarded their Boeing 737-4Q8 for their 2 hour t…
4 years, 6 months ago
RAF Form 414, Volume 13
Another installment of tales from my RAF logbook. I’m about halfway through my 4 year sentence at RAF Valley instructing those RAF pilots destined fo…
4 years, 6 months ago
How it Starts
How do you get a pilot going? Well, in the old days it started with a hand crank!
4 years, 7 months ago