From the Sydney Morning Herald, 17 Feb, 2012. A 40-year-old Australian man is dead following an extreme sport accident on New Zealand’s South Island. The man, who lived in Wanaka, was canopy flying when the accident occurred about midday on Thursday. Canopy flying uses a combination of skills from paragliding and sky diving, and is [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Aircraft News category.
Heard of the CTLE?
Yes, the CTLE; CT Law Enforcement. Tulsa, OKLA police have hit on the idea of using a CTLS for airborne policing instead of a helicopter. It’s vastly cheaper to operate and performs all the same functions easily. So why not? Pigs in space, indeed! )
Seattle-based Aviation Partners Seeks Dismissal Of Airbus Lawsuit
Here’s the text of an email I received today … don’t know if it’s true or not, but it sure is interesting, yes? Two Locked In A Legal Struggle Over Blended Winglet Design When Joe Clark and his business associates founded Aviation Partners, Inc. (API) in 1991, he had no idea that he’d be [...]
Santa Visits Gatton Airpark
Ho Ho Ho! Someone’s getting themselves a nice, new Sports Cruiser for Christmas. No, wait! There’s two of them! Yes, two new Sports Cruisers arrived at Gatton airpark and I joined in the fun of unpacking them. Very well packed, too; quite a bit of useful timber left over after the job was done. Take [...]
The Archon SF1
While it doesn’t sound quite right, I think it looks just great. Full points to these guys for what they’ve achieved. All the way from Greece … maybe it can help them get out of bankruptcy.
Pilots becoming redundant
Yep, we’re an endangered species. Reminds me of the joke about the new breed of airliners … the ones with a pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to make the passengers feel comfortable, and the dog is there to bite the pilot if he touches anything. Well, this one has no pilot, no [...]
Spitfire Mark 1 flies again
Here’s something you don’t see very often … a Spitfire Mark 1 completely rebuilt and flying again after being buried in the sand near Calais for 40 years. Click to see the news item: Spitfire Mark 1 flies again. Lovely!
What goes around … catches aeroplanes!
Well, you’ve heard about it by now, I’m sure. A Cheetah S200 ultralight has crashed into a ferris wheel at Old Bar, near Taree, NSW, on Saturday. Reports of what happened are conflicting. Some say the aircraft was taking off, some say it was going around. One even said that it was landing. Difficult to [...]
Reno Air Race crash
Hi All. A nasty airshow accident at the Reno Air Races. We all hate to hear about it. While we feel empathy for those who died, and the bereaved families, we also know that anyone with a sense of self-importance will loudly proclaim that these kind of events should be stopped, in the interests of [...]
