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I was unsuccessful in seeing the wind direction in the video, even after slowing it down. IF the landing was downwind, then, yes, it's...

I'm afraid that the flight instruction currently being given in high-end gyros is still not really putting the students in touch with...

Yes, in its design, Air Command reduced the rotor-prop clearance that Bensen had used -- probably to keep the aircraft's overall height...

Even better (i.e. more confusing) terminology used by the lay observer would be "the motor stalled." Raises more questions than it...

I've never seen a blade strike rip off the TRAILING edge of a blade, while leaving the leading edge undamaged and apparently not bent...

We teach the folks in sailing class to call this type of fog "advection fog." One distinctive characteristic of the stuff is that it...

"Pilot kills classic airplane." Revolting. I'm tempted to launch into a long, old-guy philippic about "influencers" and the unreal...

It seems to me that long-stroke landing gear that allows landing in vertical descent is almost a necessity to complete the jump takeoff...

Of course, old-time pickup trucks had seat-back tanks. Or at least the tank was in the cab and your seat back rested against it. Walt...

My very first helo ride was in a 47. I was probably six or so. There was one giving rides at the old Freedomland theme park in the...

Wayne, many dreamers get excited about hydrogen. I know that you know that hydrogen is an energy storage device only, since (unlike...

Wayne, I go through the same drill teaching navigation to sailing students. We plan our trips using paper-and-pencil methods. My pitch...

Energy density says it all. We have a long way to go, indeed.

Check out the kickin' (but respectful IMHO) version of Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon's countrymen, the Headstones: RIP Gordon. You and...

Extremely tight formations and night-vision goggles come first to my mind. It's an inherently dangerous form of flying.