After operating in stealth mode for the last four years, San Francisco-based Xwing said in a news release last week it has carried out a number of passenger-carrying flights from take-off to landing remotely using a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan. Xwing’s Auto-flight System retrofits existing aircraft into optionally piloted vehicles byRead More →
The embattled charter company that operated a helicopter that crashed in January, killing Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others, has blamed two air traffic controllers for the accident. In a cross-complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court last week, Island Express Helicopters and Island Express Holding Corp. allegedRead More →
By David Szondy (Re-edited Julian Smith) August 24, 2020 Reaction Engines and Britain’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have completed a concept study into the practicality of using ammonia as a jet aviation fuel. By teaming Reaction Engines’s heat exchanger technology with STFC’s advanced catalysts, they hope to produce aRead More →
Lookout Beach, Plettenberg Bay, 1972. Beacon Isle Hotel had just opened and the passengers of the aircraft stayed overnight at the Hotel. After their stay, the Beacon Isle Combi delivered them back to the beach with their luggage, loaded all aboard and then took off. (Derek Frielinghaus) But the realRead More →
The Stearman (Kaydet) is a biplane formerly used as a military trainer aircraft. 10,626 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Stearman Aircraft became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1934.Read More →
Well into the producing the military Cessna T-37, Cessna set aside limited engineering and marketing resources to analyse the profitability of developing a civilian version of the T-37. Designated the Cessna Model 407, only a wooden fuselage mock-up of the proposed aircraft was ever produced. The aircraft was to haveRead More →
The ERCO (Engineering and Research Corporation) Ercoupe is an all American low-wing monoplane aircraft, and was first flown in 1937. It was designed to be the safest fixed-wing aircraft that aerospace engineering could provide at the time and included unique design features such as a large glazed canopy with as much visibility as a bubble canopy. LackingRead More →
The Martin WB-57F Canberra’s patchwork roots are evident during a test flight soon after the rebuild. Raised from the boneyard after four decades and patched together with parts from different aircraft, a Martin Canberra makes history. Aviation buffs love to learn that a historic airplane has been restored to itsRead More →
1.) There were never many Beech 17s in South Africa but here are four of them. ZS-AJT D17S c/n 4885 ex ZS-CLM, CR-LBF, N1591V, NC60004 & 43-10837. Now in the UK as G-LAJT. 2.) ZS-BBC C17L c/n 124 no previous history available but she went to Finland as OH-BCI inRead More →
This wonderful collection of photos of Tiger Moth ZU-EEG was taken by Rooivalk and TFSA Test Pilot, Petri van Zyl at Mossel Bay, using a Huawei Pro 20 cellphone. The Tiger belongs to South African Zirk Lombard, whose normal job is flying an Airbus A380 for Qatar Airways. The aircraftRead More →
