FedEx MD-11 Crashes in Tokyo
By miller22 | March 23, 2009
Yesterday, a FedEx MD-11 crashed at Tokyo’s Narita airport on landing. There is some spectacular video of the crash from what looks like one of the airport security cameras. I will warn the readers, that this is a difficult video to watch for some.
Airplanes don’t just crash like this. It’s important to remember that the pilots flying FedEx’s MD-11′s tend to be senior, and thus more experienced. You’re going to hear about the bad landing technique, and even though I’m one to criticize bad landing technique, there’s too much unknown here to start pointing fingers at the pilots.
Topics: Uncategorized | 18 Comments »
Delta Unveils 747-400 Paint Scheme
By admin | December 16, 2008
Delta has unveiled it’s new 747-400 paint scheme. I knew it was going to look nice, but I’m stunned. This bird is beautiful!
Topics: 747, Delta | 18 Comments »
MIT Never Ceases to Amaze – Autonomous VTOL
By admin | December 12, 2008
Now this is cool. A completely autonomous Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) RC Aircraft is demonstrated at MIT. The aircraft takes-off vertically, flies a couple laps around the room, then returns to vertical flight and lands.
Topics: Videos, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? | 11 Comments »
Can an Airplane Land with One Wing?
By admin | December 10, 2008
It’s pretty well known by now that this video is a fake, but it’s got the aviation world buzzing about whether or not it would actually be possible to land an aircraft with one wing. The idea being, that with an engine powerful enough as would be on an aircraft of this type, the aircraft could indeed land with one wing…at least theoretically.
Effectively, the pilot would use the vertical stabilizer for lift, and the remaining wing would become the vertical stabilizer. With the rudder now acting as an elevator and a strong lift vector from the engine itself, it seems reasonable in a theoretical environment that this would be possible. If you watch the control movements at each phase of flight, they’re consistent with what would be required to accomplish the landing.
So I ask you readers…Is this aerodynamically possible?
Topics: Videos | 5 Comments »
How Not To – Landing a Sea Plane
By admin | December 7, 2008
To be honest, I’m not sure if this is landing or taking off, but nonetheless, it’s how not to operate a seaplane.
Topics: Videos | 6 Comments »
The Look of Global Aviation
By admin | September 29, 2008
This video shows the movement of air traffic across the Earth during a day. It’s spectacular to see how the air traffic follows the time of day. Also notice how the North Atlantic Tracks are essentially one-way. They have to flush out the entire system before they can launch the West-bound aircraft.
Topics: Videos | 7 Comments »
Time-lapse Demolition of Boeing 720
By admin | September 25, 2008
Time Lapse Of Boeing 720b Demolition – Watch more free videos
Topics: Videos | 6 Comments »
Southwest Blog-o-Spondent Contest – Dan Webb
By admin | August 16, 2008
Southwest is holding a contest to find the next “Nuts about Southwest Blog-o-Spondent.” The three finalists get to go to Las Vegas on September 20-21 for the BlogWorld Expo 2008 and compete for the finals. Sound cool? It is, but what’s even cooler is that we’ve got one of our close blogging friends, Dan Webb who’s in the lead! Show him some love by voting for his video at: http://southwest.spigit.com/Sector/ViewThread?threadid=231
Topics: Videos | 2 Comments »
Images and Video of B-2 Guam Crash
By admin | August 6, 2008
On February 26th, a B-2 bomber crashed on takeoff from Guam. This July, the Air Force finally released video and photos of the accident, as well as an official cause. According to the Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board, water became trapped in some of the sensors which detect airspeed, altitude, and attitude. The on-board computer used this erroneous data to command a higher nose angle than the airspeed could withstand, and the inevitable stall resulted.
Topics: B2, Pictures, Videos | 18 Comments »
Detailed Qantas 747 Explosion Pictures
By admin | August 4, 2008
It certainly does appeart that this was an oxygen bottle by the placement. With the high pressure inside those bottles and the differential in pressure across the skin of the pressure vessel, it doesn’t take much to create a hole.
A close-up of the damage.
Closer view yet. The damage to the electrical wiring is apparent.
These look like some sort of oxygen system blow-out valves, but I’m not certain. Anyone with more information on this?
The explosion also did damage to the passenger door above the bottle. Don’t see the damage?
How about now? Take a look at that last picture and you’ll see where the reinforced skin around the door was compromised.
A view inside the cabin which seems to be directly above the explosion. There was significant damage to the interior of the aircraft, none of which seemed to be structural.
Topics: 747, Pictures, Qantas | 88 Comments »
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