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Stratolaunch flies again
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:52 pm
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With a wingspan stretching to 117 metres, wider than the length of a football pitch, the Stratolaunch plane rose to 14,000 feet and reached a top...
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Dick Rutan has sure produced some interesting aircraft over the years... I had the pleasure of flying a VariEze many moon ago. Great fun...
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Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:13 pm
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NPAS Vulcanair P68 Problems
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Ex-Ascot » Fri Mar 19, 2021 5:58 am
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I know that this is the Daily Snail but it is reported to have come from The Times.
It is said that the Vulcanair P68 is not agile enough for...
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WE used to have a police helicopter at HUY,our local airport, and would see it around most days then we were told it was being moved to Wakefield to...
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Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:32 am
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Last ever Lear jet to roll off Bombardier line...
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Feb 12, 2021 8:59 am
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The last ever Learjet will be built in 2021, its manufacturer, Bombardier, has announced, signalling the end for an aircraft that was once shorthand...
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Forbes retrospective on the Learjet.
Aborted Learjet 85
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Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:33 pm
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Evacuation Slides
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ian16th » Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:50 pm
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Ex-A, take my word those charter flights were the safest flights protected by the Virgin Mary.
So is that why they gave us the call sign 'Panagia...
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Sun Jan 24, 2021 2:23 pm
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Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:23 pm
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Red Arrows eat your heart out!
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Boac » Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:26 am
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Difficult to believe this is real.
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Difficult to believe this is real.
Quite extraordinary. I bet this chap with be a dab hand with one of those Afghani fighting kites.
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Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:53 pm
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£360 for airline food!
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:40 am
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If we ever needed proof that mankind has taken leave of its senses!
Diners have rushed to pay up to £360 per head to eat a meal on a stationary...
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...I always feel dirty after getting off a train. I don't know what that is. Maybe something to do with when Mrs Fliegs & I travelled from...
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Last post by EA01
Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:04 am
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King Air just keeps on going..
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Oct 09, 2020 9:21 am
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Textron Aviation announced on October 5 the FAA type certification of the upgrades to its Becchcraft King Air 300 series—the King Air 360 and...
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Never flew a real King Air but have 1,000 hours PIC in Beech 1900C which I called the Super Duper King Air TM .
The Super King Air 300 and the 1900...
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Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:26 pm
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Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:12 pm
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Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:53 am
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Tue Sep 29, 2020 5:50 pm
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Spouses share flight deck...
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Sep 25, 2020 3:04 am
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I wouldn't have thought this was a good idea but then maybe I am just an unreconstructed dinosaur!
I was here first, so to speak. I was already a...
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It is probably the end for the type of 'pantomime humour' where people dress up as other ethnic types.
Aladdin?
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Last post by G-CPTN
Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:32 am
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Embarrassing oneself while flying...
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TheGreenGoblin » Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:54 pm
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I have a couple of personal stories, of course, but I kick off with an amusing and very honest account of a faux pas written here by David Dickson a...
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Yes, he had a headset on - very pleasant guy.
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Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:39 pm
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fello'fly
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Mrs Ex-Ascot » Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:15 pm
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Good idea in theory, but in reality? :-\
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I would not want to be in one of the 'outside slots' when it turns........................... :))
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Last post by Boac
Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:58 am
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NetJets Europe
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reddo » Fri Aug 21, 2020 6:14 pm
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The president Elton D'Souza was fired today.
Good news.
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Elton D´Souza, ex-TAP, is removed from the leadership of NetJets Europe after one year
28.08.2020 at 18h17
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Sun Aug 30, 2020 5:30 pm
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Lucky Virgins
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Boac » Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:13 am
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New 'Virgin Atlantic' service starts to Pakistan from Manchester. Should be a laugh a minute for the crews............
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I hope they've reconfigured the bogs - or some of them - for local operation. I worked for them for three years and the biggest complaint the western...
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Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:23 pm
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Cessna's Sky Courier
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Aug 14, 2020 7:19 am
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The second flight test article for the Cessna SkyCourier program took flight in Wichita on August 11. In Textron Aviation company parlance, the first...
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Om15's interesting and detailed posts highlight clearly why this aircraft is so much more that what went before!
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Sun Aug 16, 2020 8:41 am
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What the hell is going on at the FAA?
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:38 am
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Pilots Facing Retests After Incompetent Examiner Revealed.
AOPA is reporting that hundreds of pilots may have to take their practical tests over...
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UP:
I've heard that due to the shortage of DPEs, check rides are very a lucrative business. The father of my daughter's friend works administratively...
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Mon Aug 03, 2020 8:00 pm
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Flying to RAF Valley for a swim and a walk on the beach...
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri May 29, 2020 2:08 pm
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A privately owned aircraft landed at a closed RAF Base without permission on Bank Holiday Monday according to the MOD's Air safety information...
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Always seems to be open when I,m fishing off the island.
Probably a Russian reconnaissance group ribrash! :)
RAF Valley - Home | Facebook
It is...
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Fri May 29, 2020 7:31 pm
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Sat May 02, 2020 5:14 pm
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Skywriting returns to the UK
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:11 am
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Kilroy was here... returns to the skies...
The forbidden art of using planes to write messages in the skies above the UK is set to make a comeback...
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Thereby hangs a sweet chocolate tail...
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Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:17 pm
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Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:55 pm
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UK ‘Will Leave’ EASA, Says British Transportation Secretary
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ian16th » Fri Mar 06, 2020 9:53 pm
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UK ‘Will Leave’ EASA, Says British Transportation Secretary
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MoL has resolutely used every opportunity to invent possible problems regarding Brexit, most of the engineers that I know that certify EASA...
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Sat Mar 07, 2020 5:21 pm
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Tue Feb 25, 2020 3:32 am
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Is Stratolaunch a dead duck?
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:34 pm
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Since Paul Allan, who founded Seattle-based Stratolaunch in 2011, died at age 65 in October 2019, Vulcan, a unit of Allen’s privately-held investment...
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Another startup bites the dust...
Filmed in 2019
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Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:39 pm
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