A bad day all around: A pilot flying from an Ottawa airport last Wednesday in a rented Cessna 172M inadvertently set his transponder to broadcast the hijack code and then inadvertently flew into restricted airspace… via AVweb.
Posted on February 24, 2011, 8:39 am, by Jack Hodgson, under
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According to this story, Richard “Smokey” Young has set a new world record in his Formula One racer. The hook here is that the plane was fueled with “Swift Fuel”, which is one of the more promising new 100LL replacements. I’m not clear from this story whether this flight was fueled with the version of [...]
Posted on February 24, 2011, 8:27 am, by Jack Hodgson, under
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Victoria Neuville gives us this nice story, in her aviation themed blog, reminiscing about her first flight. My first flight was when I was a newly licensed driver, I had just completed ground school with my father and signed up for my discovery flight. I was nervous and excited, to make matters worse, my flight instructor was [...]
Posted on February 24, 2011, 8:06 am, by Jack Hodgson, under
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I don’t really know anything about these folks, but the images on their website caught my eye. When things thaw out up in the great white this could be a fun destination for anyone so inclined… Georgian Bay Airways Ltd..
Posted on February 22, 2011, 10:02 am, by jeburnside, under
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I love it when people unfamiliar or inexperienced with aviation try to argue technical matters. It’s even better when the arguing is done in public. The latest example comes courtesy of the New York Post, which ran an article detailing how lawyers for Cory Lidle’s widow, who is suing Cirrus Design in the aftermath of [...]
Posted on February 17, 2011, 11:23 am, by Jack Hodgson, under
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Navigation systems like GPS can also be adversely affected. via Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA.
Posted on February 16, 2011, 4:16 pm, by Jack Hodgson, under
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Not an aviation thing. But some cool footage anyway. Vroom vroom, enjoy. (BTW, Higdon found this and showed to me. I just blogged it before he did.)
Posted on February 13, 2011, 9:05 am, by Jack Hodgson, under
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Some terrific aviation related 360 degree panoramas at this site. 360 Cities – I Believe I Can Fly (14 Airplane Cockpits).
Posted on February 13, 2011, 8:50 am, by Jack Hodgson, under
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This has nothing to do with aviation, but… “But as of now, spring training is officially underway.” Woo Hoo.
Posted on February 8, 2011, 10:15 am, by Jack Hodgson, under
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From AvWeb: The GPS industry is warning that a proposed broadband Internet network could effectively jam GPS signals. Further, it says it has data showing that any of the anticipated 40,000 (yes, four zeroes) transmitters can make a Garmin 430 go dark at a range of five miles. GPS World calls the proposal by LightSquared [...]