Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2020 i Plane & Pilot

COLORADO FAA WEATHER CAMS ARE LIVE! The FAA has gone live with its Colorado weather cams, which can be accessed via the internet. Many of the most problematic passes in the Rocky Mountain State are now outfitted with the cams, which can show you not only a live view but also a playback mode that captures previous images of the pass in question, so you can see how the weather is trending. There are 13 cams now, and each one has multiple views out. Using the cams couldn’t be any easier. Just go to the FAA’s weather cam site, and you’ll find a zoomable map showing the location of the FAA’s cams—most, not surprisingly, are in Alaska. Find the one you want, click on it, and it’s lights, cameras, action,…

On opening day of Oshkosh AirVenture 2007, the Very Light Jet (VLJ) manufacturer Eclipse Aviation was celebrating the certification and first deliveries of its Eclipse 500 twinjet. It was simultaneously going through great financial distress, and that was no secret to any of the hundreds of people at the company’s press conference at its exhibit on opening day. And few in attendance would be surprised when, about a year later, things started to go south for Eclipse, resulting in its bankruptcy, possibly the biggest such collapse in the history of light general aviation. But what did surprise everyone was when Eclipse on that July day introduced a brand-new jet, the Eclipse EA-400, a single-engine offshoot of its EA500. People were flabbergasted. The question on everyone’s lips was, how could the…

Fatalities In Crash Of Yemenia Flight 626 (2009): 152 (2009) Survivors: 1 Name: Bahia Bakari, age 14 Age: 14 Hours Spent At Sea Clinging To Wreckage: Nine-plus Injuries: Hypothermia, fractured collarbone Last Memory Before Crash: Announcement to fasten seatbelt Fatalities On Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (1987): 154 Fatalities On The Ground: 2 Lone Survivor: Cecelia Cichan, age 4 How She Was Found: Shielded under her mother Gifts Received In Hospital: 2,000+ Cards: 30,000+ Special Attendee At Her Wedding: Firefighter who saved her life Crash Where Sole Survivor Was At The Controls: Comair Flight 5191 (2006) Cause: Incorrect runway/runway overrun Runway Used: 26, 3,501 ft Length The CL-600 Required For Takeoff: 3,744 ft Sole Survivor Left Stranded In Remote Mountain Range: Annette Herfkens Crash: Vietnamese Airlines Flight VN474 (1992) Fatalities: 30…

With the pandemic still in full effect, never has there been a more perfect time for a new product you can use at home, improve your flying chops and have a blast while doing it. Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 is that product. What benefits will pilots enjoy? Numerous ones, but the biggest, in our view, is the chance to fly challenging or higher-risk procedures in your home sim before you fly them in real life. And, yes, we know you could have done this before on other simulations, including previous editions of MS Flight Simulator, but this is different. Here’s why it’s something pilots will want to get their hands on. First off, it’s drop-dead gorgeous to look at, and that means not only the planes, which are rendered in…

Ghosts 2021 Aviation Calendars Aviation photographer Philip Makanna’s World War I and World War II calendars present an array of beautiful images celebrating the revered aircraft that helped change the course of history. Each edition features 12 full-color aerial photos of the key warbirds of each major conflict. The WWII calendar, which is now in its 41st edition, features pivotal Allied and Axis aircraft such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, the Spitfire, the Nakajima Ki-43 and more. The WWI version includes some of the earliest aerial fighters, such as the Bristol F.2B, the Sopwith Camel and the Fokker D.VIII, among others. In addition to stellar photography, the calendars provide a chronological history of key aviation events in each war as well as airplane specifications. The calendar pages measure 20 x…

“Fire, Captain!” the co-pilot yelled. He turned around to look at the smoke billowing out from the rear of the airplane into the cabin. The passengers were screaming and trying to cover their noses from the acrid smell permeating the cabin. He turned to me with fear in his eyes and repeated, “Cap, we’re on fire!” As I shifted to look back into the cabin, Alan, my co-pilot, turned back around and feverishly started opening his window. I immediately shouted at him to stop. Unfortunately, it was too late. He had managed to lower his window a few inches, and he instantly became engulfed by smoke seeking the only opening. He blacked out in seconds from the dense smoke flowing past his face. From the smell of the smoke that…

With 2020 beset by a variety of huge problems, we thought we would counter with some good news—the inspirational stories of two planes, one from Oregon and the other from Slovenia, that are making for a brighter aviation future. The Epic Aircraft E1000 single-engine turboprop and the Pipistrel Velis Electro are our two 2020 Plane & Pilot Plane Of The Year recipients, and we couldn’t be more honored to mark their achievements here. Without further ado, here are your Plane & Pilot 2020 Plane Of The Year winners. Congratulations to Epic and Pipistrel for their remarkable achievements. Epic E1000 The cutting-edge pressurized turboprop single is fast and beautiful. And so much more. One of our two planes of the year is the Epic Aircraft E1000, a 1,200 hp carbon-fiber pressurized…

THE MYSTERY In 1978, low-time Aussie pilot Frederick Valentich, flying a rental Cessna 182, vanished after reporting an unidentified flying object circling above him. Could Valentich have fallen victim to a genuine alien abduction? BACKGROUND It was Oct. 21, 1978, and the sun was setting into the Australian horizon. At 6:19 p.m., a young pilot named Frederick Valentich took off in a rented Cessna 182L from Moorabbin Airport in Victoria. He was en route to King Island, a 130-nautical-mile journey over a body of water known as the Bass Strait. The Strait is famous for its difficult flying conditions, but on this night, the skies were clear and the winds calm. Valentich was eager to make his destination, where friends awaited, ready to dine on fresh seafood along the water’s…

Disney has announced a for-streaming dramatic-series reboot of The Right Stuff, which was both a great book, written by Tom Wolfe and published in 1979, and arguably an even better movie of the same name, directed by Philip Kaufman. Both take a long look into the beginning of the United States NASA manned space program. The series starts in October. It does raise a good question: With a subject that has already been done so well, do we really need a new version of The Right Stuff,? I’d argue that we do. Reboots happen in Hollywood all the time. An old series or movie that might have been popular (or, maybe, not so much) is brought back for another go-around, sometimes in a different format—movie to series, or vice versa.…

ACROSS 1 Oxymoronic J-3? Two words. 8 Engine covering Batman would approve of 9 Baumgartner, who famously set a record high-altitude skydive 10 Where Detroit is in relationship to Chicago, for instance 13 What you do with a clearance 15 Johnson, who famously performed a roll in a Boeing 707 17 What a high-speed taxiway is to a runway 19 Chicago’s state, for short 21 Aircraft make associated with Charles Lindbergh 23 Adjective describing the good parts of aviation 24 Word that follows “ducted” 26 Thinking ahead word 27 Bob, who famously performed an engine-out roll while pouring iced tea 29 Pilots who aren’t SIC 31 This model was this very thing for the Wichita manufacturer in 1947 32 Who you pay when you buy an M600 33 Airplanes made…