I operate and own several jets of different size. With the smaller jets, I prefer aircraft with single pilot certification, as I fly most of my...
I can't tell You how much I loved my Cessna 525A Citation Jet CJ2. It was my first own private jet and I always flew it single pilot. Easy to fly,...
Nicely corrected Jet News :).
The aquarium opened in December 2003. Capacity 1.000.000 litres of water, 1.500 fish. Luckily the glas bursted shortly after 4 o'clock in the...
The Radisson Hotel in Berlin was very famous four its 16 meter high aquarium in the middle of its atrium. But only until yesterday. The aquarium...
Recently we had global warming protests at the Hamburg Airport with several young people cutting a hole in the fence of the airport and entering...
As far as wash out of candidates in military pilot training are concerned. During my UPT at Sheppard Air Force Base we lost 8 out of 26 of my...
That looks like an engine failure during flight or a precautionary inflight shutdown of the port engine. Only the starboard thrust reverser bucket...
That's the way a retracting landing gear will look like, when the design dictates a gear into the fuselage solution. On the P.180 the wings are to...
Landing gear problems were very common on early versions. The rather fragile landing gear was reinforced later and because of the narrow track...
Update: The P.180 Avanti was the private aircraft of Rainer Schaller. The persons on board were the swiss pilot, his personal assistant, his...
Must have been either the family owned or corporate owned aircraft, as it was flown single pilot with the pilot a swiss citizen. 6 POB, 1 pilot, 2...
The wreckage and several bodies was found on the water. The five German passengers were a well known business man from Germany and his complete...
An Piaggio Avanti P.180 with 2 crew and 5 passengers from Germany disappeared yesterday, the 21th of october from the radar scope on its flight...
I think it was an option on the order list on later models. But not all aircraft had it, as far as I know. At least the bird I flew in did not...
You are right Norseman, modern larger business jets have active noise cancelling systems. They are basically an array of loudspeakers hidden in...
The noisiest aircraft I ever flew and was fully rated for in the military, was the Dornier Do-28 D2 Skyservant. Every Fighter wing had 3 to 4 of...
Germany has a bunch of Chinooks on order as an replacement for the meanwhile pretty old CH-53 army helicopters but I think that bird is still to...
Yes Edwards Air Force Base, California. And sorry, with the Caravelle being noisy, I ment the out side noice during takeoff and landing. The old...
The old heads are occupying again a thread for their the older I get, the better I was :). But anyhow: The principle of the course was getting...
