Get notified when the law changes – straight to your inbox. You no longer have to search the SACAA website looking for changes. The aviation industry is loving this very popular notification service. The weekly newsletter informs you when there are changes to Aviation Law specific to South Africa. AIC’sRead More →
Over the weekend of the 19/20th September 2020. (Ray Watts). A great day, fabulous breakfast and great people. Here are some of the aircraft that were there. Enjoy.Read More →
It is a known fact you can improve the efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft by reducing drag. Have you ever looked at birds in flight and wondered why their wings bend up at the tips, or the feathers flair out. The intended effect is to reduce drag by partial recovery of the tipRead More →
19 September 2020 Fellow Pilots, The outcome of the meeting on Friday between BRPs and the creditors was the best of the three options on offer and gives labour some hope that the funds will indeed flow into the very much depleted coffers at SAA . It would appear thatRead More →
The Cessna 310 is an American four-to-six-seat, low-wing, twin-engine monoplane produced by Cessna between 1954 and 1980. : The Cessna 310 had a number of firsts: It was the first twin-engine aircraft that Cessna put into production after World War II. It was the first airplane built by Cessna to have retractable tricycle landingRead More →
If you were the CFI, what could you have done differently in this situation? (Above picture is not the accident aircraft discussed) CFI/Student: Runway Over-run On Landing We found the following NASA ASRS report, written in 2018. A CFI flying with a student practicing landings describes a runway overrun event that, fortunately,Read More →
The world’s first ‘practical’ helicopter, designed by Igor Sikorsky, took to the air at Stratford, Connecticut, on September 14, 1939. The helicopter named VS-300 was built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation. It was the first to incorporate a single main rotor and tail rotor design.Read More →
Based on the company’s two-seat Robinson R22, the R44 was Robinson Helicopter Company’s first four-seat light helicopter Designed during the 1980s by Frank Robinson and his staff of engineers, the R44 first flew on 31 March 1990. A second prototype was built, and the R44 Astro was awarded an FAA Type Certificate in DecemberRead More →
“Several Starship prototypes were destroyed during testing” In April, SpaceX successfully pulled off the first ‘hop’ test for its Starship prototype, the SN5. Last week, the company has once again repeated that feat with the SN6, a rocket which Elon Musk has previously referred to as a flying water tower, dueRead More →
