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A County judge has sided with local residents in a precedent-setting ruling in regards to aircraft noise and safety… Northern California - A small community made up of recently constructed housing and condos had launched a class action suit against...
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Three Martin M-130 Martin Ocean Transport flying boats were designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland, for Pan American Airways in 1935. Although each clipper that joined the Pan American fleet to serve on their Trans-Pacific...
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April 20th, 1962, while Neil Armstrong tested a self-adjusting control system on the X-15, he managed to reach a height of over 207,000 feet, but during the descent, the aircraft nose was held up too long and the X-15 bounced...
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Any pilot or ground crew knows the importance of properly attending to each item on a checklist. Unfortunately, as professional as one wishes to be, we are all vulnerable to one basic and unavoidable truth… no matter how experienced and...
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One fine hot summers afternoon there was a Cessna 150 flying in the pattern at a quiet country airfield. The Instructor was getting quite bothered with the student's inability to maintain altitude in the thermals and was getting impatient at...
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