Have you ever heard people say, “I wouldn’t fly in one of those small planes – it is not like a car where you can stop and fix it if something goes wrong?” Jim Davis walks you through some life-threatening failures that you can easily handle, or fix, from theRead More →
Practically the first thing anyone wants to know about a new aeroplane is how fast it goes. This very basic question is curiously hard to answer. Airspeed is measured by the pitot-static system. (The word pitot, by the way, comes from the name of Henri Pitot, who came up withRead More →
Back in 1989, when the small Swiss plane maker Pilatus announced the PC-12 as its single engine King Air competitor, there was much disparaging the idea that senior business execs – with company money to burn on fuel – would trust their lives to a single engine turboprop. Turns outRead More →
