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Evacuator
Hugh Pryor I have had a lot of fun during this past few years of flying. I have sneaked a Twin Otter out of Algeria, over Libya, to Tripoli and thence, across the Mediterranean, to the historic twinkling jewel box of Malta, at night. It was an exciting start to
You will never understand Lift
Peter Garrison Forget it. You haven’t got a chance. So I muttered to myself as I closed a fascinating book called, The Enigma of the Aerofoil. The author, David Bloor, is an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh whose field is the sociology of science: how cultural and personal
Interesting Aviators
Iris McCallum I remember back in 1960 being in Nairobi West (where Wilson Airport is situated) standing with my mother watching a train pass by, filled with refugees from the Belgian Congo. The train was full, with many of the people dressed in pyjamas, or whatever they could find to
Exclusive! Pipistrel’s Electro Velis – The Future is Here!
Guy Leitch and Jason Beamish. Air to air Images Paul Ludick We are thrilled to bring you the most significant flight test in the past twenty years: the first practical electric general aviation plane. Love them or hate them, electric planes are the future – and now they are here.
Opening Shot
You don’t need to be doing expensive and complex air to air photography to get a good Opening Shot. And, as we have increasingly shown, you don’t even need an expensive camera – all you need is a good eye – even if you are sitting in the back of
The engine Fire Aftermath – Part 2
Iris McCallum continues her stories about her early years with Air Kenya, and this month she shares her recovery in the aftermath of her dramatic engine fire and crash and her subsequent ‘getting back onto the saddle’. After all the documentation relating to the crash had been dealt with, my
Hugh Pryor – Sergeant Abdullah
Part 1 Hugh Pryor In 1986, I was, surprisingly, quite pleasurably employed in Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya. I was flying for the leading Utility Aviation Company in the world at that time, on contract to an oil field service company, called Schlumberger. The pre-GPS flying was challenging and the people I
Why Left?
Peter Garrison Why do we turn left in the pattern, when we could turn right? Thirsting for knowledge, I Googled why we drive on one side of the road rather than the other. I found a lot of obvious rubbish about quarrelsome knights and Roman charioteers. I suspect that what
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Exercise 8 – DESCENDING
Jim Davis Descending is a remarkably complicated subject and us overworked instructors have to be able to field all manner of questions about it. To ease you gently into it – here’s the story about Joe’s picture. It was 1964 when I clambered on to an SAA Skymaster at Eros
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Sun n Fun Report
Laura McDermid Whenever the annual calendar of events is put together at the beginning of the year, October always seems like a million miles away. And so inevitably the EAA Sun ‘n Fun fly-in arrives far sooner than anticipated. The Spar up the road from where I live is already