https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/dqyqdvn8lh24wbzowhz2d28j9hjgaq monthly 0.5 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/a60199af-12cf-41fa-81cb-72842e884eed/P26+X-24B+turning+finals_imgupscaler.ai_Enhancer_2K.jpg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out X-24B turning finals for the left desert strip https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/08967ce0-3bb8-4bdd-98c7-83afce9dd4e0/P4+Backseat+author+about+to+try+the+hangglider+control+system.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Author as a hangglider backseater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/3b497f89-184a-497b-9206-e0aa447fef03/P18+M2-F1+And+C47.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out M2-F1 and C47 tug https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/922230b3-65b4-422d-9fd9-33ee76ba0aa2/P23+David-Barish-Paraglider-Ed-Ewing.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out 2005 Sailwing replica. Picture Ed Ewing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1fddeea1-0c87-4553-a595-6fbcb11d4b67/P10+Alan+Shepard+pick-up.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - On May 5th 1961 Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a 15 minute, 300 mile sub-orbital flight, this time remaining in the capsule for the parachute descent into the sea. 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It’s simple by historic Chinese kite standards, but suggests that the gloom, fear and superstition of the European Dark Ages was finally giving way to a return of the creativity and imagination of Archimedes and Euclid et al. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/5949ffc7-736a-4320-9abd-ff979a20071a/P19+Live+and+let+Die.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Bond and a Rogallo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/360978eb-84ca-4a4a-aee9-8bd0c07ea636/P11+Kennedy+moon.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - This was achieved in 1969 with Apollo 11’s splashdown on July 24th of that year. What a decade of progress by trial and error, from both sides of the iron curtain: but where was the steerable NASA device that could land on a runway, and avoid this expensive and unpredictable boating? Delicate metal structures full of electronic gadgets do not take kindly to a dunk in the sea, and naval grappling traditions must be practical, so each splashdown was a spacecraft’s last flight. 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Thompson on ramp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/896c87f4-0c42-4e1f-b312-c1a590c90ed9/P24+first+three+metals.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out The first 3 metal flying bodies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/f8b118fc-abce-40f0-be84-87ac5c6181cd/P29+Von-Braun+sees+the+light.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Von Braun discussing belief in 1966 on Assemblies of God radio, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1be98624-a2d5-42f4-b749-a9e9b20c3f5d/P17+Parasev+and+M2-F1.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Parasev and M2-F1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/6800b153-c189-4e9b-8fcc-65ef0083017f/P19a+Smithsonian+article.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Modern recreational Rogallo wing development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1c1dadcc-4c9e-45c6-b8cf-ca5addcd4adb/P12+last+Apollo_splashdown.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Apollo #17, the last splashdown (for the time being). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/3b19f066-2554-4e3c-bcdf-94494663a08d/P8+Yuri+Gagarin+signing+autographs.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - The first human in space - space parachuting begins Gagarin signing autographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/b9f0f7c8-c0fc-40bc-b899-43c76812c655/P25+3+is+best%2C+but+2+is+OK_imgupscaler.ai_Enhancer_2K.jpg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out First Apollo parachute test 1963. 3 is best, but 2 is OK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1763122248343-4U0P41IAP0JFEGSYVLHA/P33+SCRAM+H20+and+soace+station.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Artist’s impression of a SCRAM H20 at a space station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/6a1aa7be-d47b-4344-ab8d-678247808b58/P9+Vostok1.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Telephoning head office was not easy in 1961, or even 1976 when the world aerobatic scene spent a couple of weeks in Kiev, but all ended well. Gagarin’s flight was a fantastic achievement in anyone’s book. The Vostok 1 was a steel sphere with a toughened glass window - aeronautically a large cannonball, not much of a glider. How hot did Yuri get before the cool relief of his parachute ride? Vostok 1 with Yuri mock-up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/255ca8c7-e681-4b6a-b756-bf80290e0d31/P14+X-15.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out X-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/85b93d19-8ba2-42d8-9136-b2009a7b530f/P30++parafoil+X-38.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Looks like a giant paraglider to me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/63a9401e-b1a7-4658-827b-c1536184d779/P21+Gemini+testing.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Gemini capsule under Rogallo wing with inflatable frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/377497c8-b9ac-483d-bb64-647624e183fe/P22+original+sailwing.jpg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Hangies (and floppies) in space? - Make it stand out Original 1965 Sailwing https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/yrblfc3fggde8fpxinq9atnulnopja monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/51eb33ff-f6a5-49aa-a26d-5c9a0040f0d3/P24+first+three+metals.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt.3 - Make it stand out The first 3 metal flying bodies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/f8b118fc-abce-40f0-be84-87ac5c6181cd/P29+Von-Braun+sees+the+light.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt.3 - Make it stand out Von Braun discussing belief in 1966 on Assemblies of God radio, Texas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/b9f0f7c8-c0fc-40bc-b899-43c76812c655/P25+3+is+best%2C+but+2+is+OK_imgupscaler.ai_Enhancer_2K.jpg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt.3 - The basic shape of these strange creatures gave rise to debate and experiment. The lightweight M2-F1 was clearly flat on top and rounded underneath, but wouldn’t the opposite be better? The X-24B sort of settled this problem, and space shuttle design began elsewhere in 1968, but we did not see the finished product until 1981 The last Apollo moon landing mission ended on December 19th 1972 with the standard parachute splashdown. A nine year gap for TV enthusiasts. First Apollo parachute test 1963. 3 is best, but 2 is OK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/08e7bd65-60ec-4b01-b02c-8954e1dff527/P28+Von+Braun+booklet.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt.3 - What about the floppies in space - today’s rescue paraglider - where is it? Von Braun booklet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/f2f9db4e-0e00-4f6b-9cd7-d5614024b2b6/P31+X-38+landing+on+lakebed.jpg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt.3 - Make it stand out X-38 landing by paraglider https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/b9accdcb-855c-4ce8-a3f5-3c16ffbce566/P33+SCRAM+H20+and+soace+station.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt.3 - Make it stand out Artist’s impression of a SCRAM H20 at a space station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/fd0d6781-8f6f-47d6-96bc-f14c089e181b/P27+John+Young+STS-1.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt.3 - Make it stand out John Young with paperwork during STS1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/85b93d19-8ba2-42d8-9136-b2009a7b530f/P30++parafoil+X-38.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt.3 - Make it stand out Looks like a giant paraglider to me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/e0633ff5-b778-40db-8385-e6c9428cb56c/p22+-+p23+sailwings.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt.3 - Make it stand out Left: Original 1965 Sailwing. 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Thompson on ramp https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/k3o0rczoqmlt09n2j53wjcgg6eh5om monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/672a50fc-3702-41c4-a123-3b114fdc22ad/P3+Fier_Drake_%281634_kite_woodcut%29.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt. 1 - Here’s a German woodcut of a 1634 ‘Fiery Dragon’ kite in action. It’s simple by historic Chinese kite standards, but suggests that the gloom, fear and superstition of the European Dark Ages was finally giving way to a return of the creativity and imagination of Archimedes and Euclid et al. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/0fdaa044-17f5-4a4d-b652-25fa613545eb/P6+Rogallo+in+wind+tunnel.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt. 1 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/200cee28-247e-45ab-8a58-9db2432f2f72/Sputnik1+Attr.+Turbosquid.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt. 1 - Make it stand out Sputnik 1 by Turbosquid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/aec667e6-6f5c-492b-8d41-3c4792e3ff96/P15+Paul_F._Bikle%2C_cropped.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt. 1 - Paul Bickle was closely involved with the X-15 project and the future Boeing X-20 Dynasoar, but the project to explore a conventional landable alternative to the round parachute has few direct precedents. There is a particularly old-world charm and quaintness in this degree of inventive freedom. Success achieved by a determination to succeed is a special American quality, exemplified by the Wright Brothers. And although we should not forget the rocket technology acquired from Europe, the less spectacular but very important means of getting down is a classic story of homespun backyard creativity. There were two highly contrasting possibilities: parachutal devices deployed at low speed, and space-capable, self-contained flying objects with acceptable aerodynamic qualities for conventional landings. A sphere is the only shape that cannot provide lift - only drag - but any other shape can produce some lift. The remaining question is how fast do you have to glide to achieve level flight for landing your wingless spaceship glider? 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Three weeks later President Kennedy really ramped up the pressure on his own brave fliers and researchers with the challenge to “Land a man on the moon and return him safely to the Earth by the end of the decade.” Shepard winch up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1c1dadcc-4c9e-45c6-b8cf-ca5addcd4adb/P12+last+Apollo_splashdown.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt. 1 - Make it stand out Apollo #17, the last splashdown (for the time being) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/db676c12-3118-4be5-8346-68ce0a2aaa00/P8+Yuri+Gagarin+signing+autographs.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - NASA hangies in space? pt. 1 - Brave MiG15 pilot Yuri Gagarin kicked off with a single orbit in April 1961. He landed by personal parachute, on a farm somewhere in Kazakhstan having left the trusty Vostok Mk1 at 25,000 feet on the way down - smart guy. 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Steering had become increasingly erratic as visibility reduced, because the helmsman of this rudderless and flat-bottomed vessel had to rely increasingly on a digital heading readout (rather than outside scenery or the traditional compass rose appearance). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/0cdfc001-969a-4b36-96fa-13e12b3ae716/Report+Image.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - The Wreck of the Greylag - The 2020 Official Accident Report Click on image to read the report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/284ce660-fbbe-4948-808e-41919baf6feb/Minchin+in++CHpmunk.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - The Wreck of the Greylag - Many professional pilots also like to go sailing. This picture of the future yacht Greylag owner features cadet Minchin rejoining the Hamble circuit in a College of Air Training Chipmunk in 1961. I had accompanied him on a visit to Kidlington to view a Jaguar XK120 which an instructor there wished to sell. This classic car found its way to Hamble, so perhaps Air and Sea can be joined by Road as a third example of man’s fascination with travel - given his limitations in all three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/425766bf-84c7-4dec-8bb3-43b0e7ca2afb/Greylag+goose.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - The Wreck of the Greylag - There are many common factors at work here, and the greylag goose is a perfect example of those creatures truly at home in two elements - water and air - with a minimum of human helpful technology which can also confuse. Many of them fly great distances with great reliability, but they seldom challenge the weather or their own ability. They demonstrate the true professional’s skill of clear judgment and patience. If it doesn’t look good, wait until it does. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/571175e8-b6dc-4d91-ae10-c8319c946a21/Captain+Alfred+Gilmer+Lamplugh+C.B.E. Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - The Wreck of the Greylag - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/fade9753-ecb4-4788-9a60-0caff20844b8/Ancient+mariner.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - The Wreck of the Greylag - More details The official report, published 16 months later, makes fascinating reading for professional air transport pilots, and a pdf copy will follow, but the story immediately did the rounds of this Hampshire Island, famous for its homegrown agricultural, royal and nautical histories. First we should read one such rustic version, typical of the tales spun by ancient mariners on winter evenings in pub, cottage, or on a bench outside in the summer. https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/pnpf2qjjkoe190qgizii57xrjm3c1c monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/01574acb-076c-48e9-ae1e-d9472b008455/concorde-+runway-near-miss-daily-+-mirror+-23+-may+1988.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - A Concorde Close Call - Not! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/633f6750-f46e-4edd-88b8-090fe3a4db38/Sandwell+Evening+Mail+23+May+1988.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - A Concorde Close Call - Not! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/b0c7fe5d-12e7-43f0-a11b-a942d14c60da/Staines+%26+Ashford+News+26+May+1988.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - A Concorde Close Call - Not! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/an-outsiders-look-at-fly-by-wire monthly 0.5 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1a83afc2-79fc-4493-a2b5-b99b66b4572a/Arrow+test+pilots.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - An Outsider’s Look at Fly-by-Wire - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/19d3587a-e6ff-4ae5-afa7-0b160b72d761/ANT20.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - An Outsider’s Look at Fly-by-Wire - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/0c4c6066-0f93-48f4-b12d-6a9cc6dd23f9/Le+tout+ensemble+of+the+small+airline.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - An Outsider’s Look at Fly-by-Wire - In 1984, as a British Airways employee helping out with a small airline, I made four base training flights with that company’s chief pilot in their B707, totalling five and a half hours. 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One requirement was the approach and landing without indicated airspeed - as a surprise (surpreeze). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/73a47884-8685-4741-8162-e2810bd313ab/Synchro-selsyn.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - An Outsider’s Look at Fly-by-Wire - Make it stand out Electrically signalled flying controls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/4bc222d4-ae4d-4b58-91e6-66872a97d814/Avro+Arrow.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - An Outsider’s Look at Fly-by-Wire - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/7a2312e0-9f1c-452c-a6c6-32e6cabb5d39/A+busy+A+320.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - An Outsider’s Look at Fly-by-Wire - Make it stand out A busy A 320 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/9bd834a8-5541-45d9-9700-21da46fbe733/Tashkent.24.06.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - An Outsider’s Look at Fly-by-Wire - This 1930 6- or 8-engined Tupolev monoplane named Maxim Gorki was built as a Soviet propaganda crowd-pleaser. It had plenty of electrical generating capacity. Underneath, large speakers blared out the heart-warming encouragements of Uncle Joe, recorded earlier; or perhaps live via radio link with the Kremlin. A gaggle of small aircraft frolicked around it, to emphasise its size - until one of them hit it in 1935 at the Moscow airshow, causing a disaster. The patriotic painting shows the Maxim G. over downtown Leningrad on a parade day, in some detail, although the parachuting objects are not clear. The second example became an Aeroflot transport. In 1942 that one left Chardzhou in Turkmenistan for Tashkent International (Uzbekistan). With 50 kms to go it was seen to descend to about 500m, then enter a steep dive, hitting the ground almost vertically. It appears that the captain was currently not at the controls, and whoever was had struggled to manage the labour-saving autopilot, inadvertently asking it to descend to the selected 0 metres height - which it duly did. 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This is a fun shot, but the jumpers are not all hanging on near the tail. The left engine is feathered - in case you ask. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/5de9cadf-5637-40f8-a7c6-27bd87ec4edb/Hunter+Aeroplane Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Dropping parachutists - a beginner’s story - Make it stand out Roger Wilkins as photographer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/be543916-364b-47ae-a3fc-af6321acd88e/6.Rapide+air.jpg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Dropping parachutists - a beginner’s story - Make it stand out Rapide going fast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/0b2245fc-efbb-4163-8f21-e0769832a889/image-asset.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Dropping parachutists - a beginner’s story - Make it stand out Monster 400-way link up. 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Launch step and strut visible https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/5igm6if7nak3h7wypqfrn0fdltsrym monthly 0.5 2021-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1633789429011-FKKLCJMI9D6L8168EL33/pic+6.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Paragliding Evolution pt.2 This is a modern beginners’ (A) wing showing diagonal ribs (blue). These improve spanwise sharing of wing loads and allow fewer support lines between wing and pilot. The numerous holes in the rib structure saves weight, and also allows free transfer of internal pressure, especially speeding up the reinflation process when required. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1633936022668-NJ0J87UTFC3VS8O35UM0/IMG_4959.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Paragliding Evolution pt.2 - Make it stand out Pilot-simulated collapse, used in testing and training https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1633790524369-RAV26UFKQ1E2RHVEWKU8/Reserve.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Paragliding Evolution pt.2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1633784502023-JTAD4IB8LNB712X5D9F7/Barry.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Paragliding Evolution pt.2 - This wing has encountered a downward gust that attempts to fold the left wing. The pilot has resisted this effect by rapidly applying brake, which temporarily increases internal wing pressure. Angle of attack also increases, which will increase dynamic pressure at the air intakes as well as providing additional corrective lift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1633283650399-IPB3NOXFRAN08GC0P3HK/3.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Paragliding Evolution pt.2 - Francis Heilmann, its 2005 resurrector, unaware that the prototype never flew more than a few feet above the ground, operates it in modern style, albeit carefully. Its relative lightness and simplicity of transport and unravelling has prompted present day questions about Hike and Fly suitability. It’s not the easiest or most agile thing to fly, and his hike&fly answer, “You would have to walk a lot”, tells us about its takeoff management and glide performance. This picture shows an early paraglider, a lightened version of the square parachute, amongst younger models. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1633790117283-SYE3CQLKM01CKTQTOESU/7.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Paragliding Evolution pt.2 - A modern intermediate (B - C) wing. The blue lines are thin nylon rod reinforcements, the triangles extra fabric riblets to maintain a better trailing edge shape. These trailing edge devices also provide longer and more progressively loaded pilot control travel. 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Before this picture was taken, one pilot had spun out of a low-level thermal in front of the takeoff, and another flew into the hillside shown, while attempting to circle in a thermal which was following the terrain. Neither of these meteorological phenomena is unusual so the question remains: would they have made the same mistake of judgment had they not have been involved in a race? Neither injury was fatal, but more experience of this environment would have helped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1629215157721-OV3836ZVIUMB6991BEGE/Pic3+copy.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Paragliding Evolution pt.1 Something completely different: The author makes his lonely way to his car at 8 pm, flying along the north face of the Wetterhorn, with the assistance of the late evening summer sun heating the rock surfaces. Speed is not of the essence, but careful glide ratio control is critical if an inconvenient walk is to be avoided. This is not a race, except with the sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1629214553423-H49X87BFMG3EBONNKJXQ/Pic2.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Paragliding Evolution pt.1 - Climbing conditions have improved, and the two gaggles indicate the competence (or luck) level of the field leaders as they make their initial top-ups before setting off round the course within this valley, which will require further climbs on the way. The contest director has wisely issued a ban on flying within a radius of 2 km from the peak, middle distance on the left. Why should this be? This is very pleasant June weather, but the N/S pressure gradient will reinforce the low level daily thermal (up the) valley wind which splits at this point of valley junction. 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Note the different fixed-pitch propeller appearances here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1608824909443-1OV1XXMQPWGCLTE3MAUY/hampden-drawing.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Not Enough Dual https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/bdam3vhmouk9ka89sgvqg9otljtgru monthly 0.5 2020-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1605356900113-LI0JG4BE4XFYSX2543C1/airfrance_jumbo-crash.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Any Solo Needed? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1605357842835-QI5K31U2XPW270QFBECE/captain+_chesley_sullenberger_sully_hudson_river_crash..png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Any Solo Needed? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1605358401879-YDCOW1BFTRZ5VCBOJYXX/4-Concordes-in-formation.jpg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Any Solo Needed? - The Concorde pilot or autopilot retained full initiative for all manoeuvring requirements, and this balance of conventional pilot control function — with excellent background modification of natural flying behaviour — worked very well. Whether flying manually or by autopilot the Concorde pilot retained the traditional awareness of basic flying parameters. This awareness of the real world and its potential challenges when in flight seems to be evaporating today, to the extent that the prospect of a simple visual approach and landing — something that the licenced civilian pilot will have performed solo in a light aircraft — has become an unwelcome prospect once a pilot has settled into the fly-by-wire environment and the passivity and dependency it appears to confer. https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/lze6xwed9z3y64507b8tmzvezebhr0-mb6y6 monthly 0.5 2020-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1602925778080-31T4KWTZQ0ZVZQEUOEJX/Concorde+Main+Gear.png Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Unsuitable Maintenance - T he Concorde main undercarriage leg lengthens as it moves from its up to its down position, achieved by simple geometry. The unfolding hinged link at the top of the leg, which achieves this increased length, snaps over-centre when it reaches the correct down position, forming a ‘locked knee,’ rigid top of the leg. Like the down-locking process elsewhere this final action is assisted only by a spring. Normally this locked knee situation occurs just before the down lock is indicated (traditional green light) after which hydraulic assistance for the lowering action is isolated. It also has to be mentioned that, so far, main gear locking down had occurred with the mildest of thumps as the down lock engaged and the extension process ceased: hardly noticeable — an affair of sophisticated taste and discretion. A yellow shortening lock light, indicating that this top-of-the-leg link was not yet in its weight-bearing, on-the-ground lengthened position, used to go out just before the green gear down light came on — its spring alone ensuring that it jumped into its own, over-centre, locked position when close enough to the straight knee position. https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/lt9uxw94p5a3k8a59ihxafqjtkhpwe monthly 0.5 2020-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1595671800078-S8XO7VDWQQ8R8MOZ365X/shorthouse-flying-things-blogbost-concorde-crew.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Shorthouse - Too tall and long legged raises a number of problems, and painful backs was a frequent colleagues’ complaint about airliner crew seats. There was, for instance, a phase of additional hard and soft lumbar pads. Whether they helped some individuals I’m not sure: I did not use them, and got to thinking about why I could manage with the seats as they were. The answer was simple. If I sat straight and upright in an airliner pilot’s seat the back reached to my shoulders, the seat pan was one inch shorter than my thighs, a spare inch for the backs of the knees: perfect. They were made for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1595671392720-HAHU3Q2TSRALGTZBADKM/shorthouse-flying-things-blog-post-kazum.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Shorthouse - From 60 years distance would I have accepted myself for military flying? To be honest, no - unless times were desperate. The inconveniences already described explain why, and an accident report conclusion along the lines of ‘The pilot was unable to simultaneously apply the required full opposite control deflections under the prevailing negative 5g conditions.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1595668042847-O2HBMFKIKFHSZ6XY8LF5/shorthouse-flying-things-blog-post.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Shorthouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1595668433275-TED5233JPGYEPYFVE4W1/Swallow_deHavilland_DH_108_Swallow_.jpg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Shorthouse - The problems are easy to list: reaching the controls and seeing out. But perhaps we should consider the advantages. The famous multi-talented Winkle Brown (so named because of his smallness) describes an exploratory flight in the DH108 Swallow, following the mysterious death of Geoffrey de Havilland in this type. As Brown approached sonic conditions the Swallow began a violent and rapid vertical oscillation, which stopped as soon as speed was reduced. Had he have been longer-bodied (taller) he has no doubt that his head would have hit the canopy with sufficient force to knock him out. His case rests, and a South African acquaintance, about my age, size and a career bank manager told me that it was suggested he apply for the South African Air Force when he left school and national service beckoned. 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An African Paragliding Story - I approach the coast with tons of height (it’s surprising how well paragliders glide if you allow them), and head for the field near Jan’s house, but there is time to consider the situation. I have no house key, and all the others are sweltering in the Klein Karoo. It’s 3 o’clock and they won’t be back for hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591807519464-DTP3TZDWDV68KO6XXW5S/Crossing+the+R62+Valley Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1592046065887-M2II0Z0VE7OEH84ZMBT2/Looking+Good.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story - By the time I reach 9,000 feet above a distant sea level I’ve crossed the main Outeniqua ridge and am on the limit of my option to head back into wind and land by our hire car. Do I need to climb higher? Not really, and the climbs seem to be running out anyway as more of the scenery underneath becomes green. To circle over the jungly hills and drift southwards, hoping for even more safety margin, reduces the return option by the second, and a decision has to be made. Passing much of the mountain scenery and reaching the first of the green fields on the coast side has to be assured, but there’s no evidence to the contrary - unless some navigationally disastrous sink seizes me, or high level south wind suddenly sets in. But it looks good, and the sense of commitment, other options abandoned, frees the mind. I head south, hands up (best glide), ignore other distractions and allow the Sigma to glide downwind. This is proper free flying! Isn’t it nice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591788040447-3OF35QYC96QYG9GFWY8W/ostrich.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591809457410-VX9TXA80EKHTP0G5JEKD/Landing+copy.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story - I approach the coast with tons of height (it’s surprising how well paragliders glide if you allow them), and head for the field near Jan’s house, but there is time to consider the situation. I have no house key, and all the others are sweltering in the Klein Karoo. It’s 3 o’clock and they won’t be back for hours. A cruise along the coast shows one hangglider make a top to bottom at the Map of Africa - Johan’s student - and I head in that direction, turn round at Dolphin Point and land on the beach abeam the village where there is shade and a drink. I telephone our leader with my iphone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591788079562-3I58IIVWRKUR9QHLGQXW/wildebeest.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591806973342-7P5OR5FY75PY3UH9ZA7F/Klein+Karoo.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591808073598-H7KO14666FZ9MNRS6UH0/view-from-2500-metres Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1592042437096-QXCC5ZD45QXL74AQ05T2/Tearooms Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story - A cruise along the coast shows one hangglider make a top to bottom at the Map of Africa - Johan’s student - and I head in that direction, turn round at Dolphin Point and land on the beach abeam the village where there is shade and a drink. I telephone our leader with my iphone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1592044560213-6F7LVRV8Y7NIO4Y6NLQT/panorama Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591806212781-8QY6ET8993UJJ6L9B7L4/Cape%2BCobra Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1592047818151-USD6GJJ3LVRGRA9FSBJU/Takeoff.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1592040171286-41YAJ9G6HXGXKAYXRHXF/green%2Bfields%2Bbelow Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story - The rest of the flight Plain sailing; compared with a Grindelwald First to Interlaken beginner’s XC child’s play itself. The upper 15kph cyclonic flow above has to be affected by the Outeniqua ridge somewhere along my track as I descend, and, sure enough, it gets bumpy with sink as the Sigma slips below the mountain tops behind, but this can’t last for ever – and it doesn’t. Suddenly it’s glassy smooth, and groundspeed equals airspeed. There is no sea breeze at all, no evidence of thermals, wind on the sea or gliders on the coast. The air is completely calm – definitely no good for paragliding – except from my vantage point. The view is fantastic and, as it turns out, unique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1592047506951-OGDV9T3O2J6U9VE96TBZ/crossing+the+outeniquas.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591806155126-ZMABM2NOYQH3AVT7ZBP4/Puff+Adder.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591788063221-WTV6Y8NQOU8ONKO9DVSV/cows.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? An African Paragliding Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1591810040725-O2AC81QODDM2GVT7VX77/Zulu+Warrior+at+Dolphin+Point Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Beginners’ Luck? Serendipity? 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We want you to feel right at home here – go anywhere you like. If you get lost ask anyone – they’ll help you. Say, I’d be real glad if you folks’ll join me for dinner tonight. Have to alter the time – night flying’s a little later; let’s make it 7.45. Hi Mike, that’s one hell of an airplane you have. Must be fun to fly. I’ve heard your handling stuff is interesting . . . Captain Bill Cross https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589279842694-KEBD28FB4934F1MW43VF/Tomcat+F%2F14+Landing+Approach+on+the+Aircraft+Carrier+USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea - Actually it’s quite crowded on this small rectangle. As well as those who need to be present there are a number of people who have various interests in the afternoon’s action: fellow learners, teachers, prospective squadron colleagues? I don’t know. But there’re all such awfully nice, polite, well-educated, well-turned-out helpful chaps, delighted that we’re getting in their way and asking stupid questions. We could be hundreds of miles from 47th street Photo. We are hundreds of miles from 47th street Photo. This is a different America – part of what they came over here to create. Friendly crowd on the LSO platform https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589271136686-DI9HLS04LQNAB2A5IB8I/Aircraft+Carrier+USS+Dwight+D.+Eisenhower Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea The Boat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589277615326-185VMGAT21PA29W9I5FQ/Concorde+Engineer+Dave+MacDonald+with+Flight+Deck+%27Reds%27+aboard+Aircraft+Carrier+USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Dave MacDonald checks the point five gun crew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589280561139-2APXL08EFCWV7UQS9WYR/Tomcat+F%2F14+Landing+on+Aircraft+Carrier+USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Tomcat touches down https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589281613749-DQACWP5JL09BXRBNACH5/Tomcat+F%2F14+Take-off+weight+check+aboard+Aircraft+Carrier+USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Pilot to confirm takeoff weight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589272632740-SPUPNBB98CHD10XWIB2T/Concorde+Crew+in+front+of+Grumman+C-2A+for+flight+to+USS++Dwight+D+Eisenhower++Aircraft+Carrier Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea - We flew out in a Grumman C-2A Greyhound, one of those chunky twin turbo-props with lots of fins. With the radar mushroom on top this becomes the E-3 (Hawkeye). Our captain was a tall, round-faced, quietly affable commander with an Italian name like Corleone, and Carl Schofield’s silver hair. L to R. Mrs Yule. SFO Tony ‘The Adj’ Yule. SFE Dave MacDonald. 4 of Admiral Jack Ready’s relatives, self, Commander Coriolis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589273667139-6GUE2613J8R8H4OZMCJP/Grumman+C-2A+landing+aboard+Aircraft+Carrier+USS+Eisenhower Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Perfect trap position https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589277276559-9K0E9CPEQ1R03UFF3LSU/Flight+Deck+Crew+of+the+USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower+Aircraft+Carrier+1991 Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Whites, greens, yellows and a purple (fuel) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589279161586-VOGOM56U0253NE5JO0HI/A+Tomcat+F%2F14+making+a+Touch+and+Go+approach+on+Aircraft+Carrier+USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower. 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Power at 3,000 pounds a side is about right for the last bit – a four degree approach on the mirror sight, with angle of attack displayed on the coaming in a kind of similar way . . . amber circle - on speed; above it a green ‘go down’ chevron, meaning too slow, and below it a red ‘come up’ one, meaning too fast – upside down traffic lights. If it was my job I would have the logic hacked – I think! The end result is an approach on the T-bar VASI at 135 knots. Approach slope indicator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589275195675-4QYP0RT9RWD28TE9GPM9/Flight+Deck+Crew+of+the+USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower+Aircraft+Carrier Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Hornet has disappeared. Fly 1 looks for the next customer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589273395770-2UWG128GE1A35LX36MKP/USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower+Carrier+Deck Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea - We can’t land yet because the ship isn’t ready; it‘s steaming for wind. Actually there isn’t any wind; so where does it think it can find some? Or, if the wind is calm, why can’t we land now? The ship’s going fast enough. It’s not as simple as that. Close to the runway? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589281457629-WFCXGMLB45RC0NS4G2VD/Aircraft+Carrier+Flight+Deck+Bubble+-+USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Bubble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589274083340-2GD6ZBKLJJPF4S59148D/Aircraft+Carrier+USS+Eisenhower+with+Tomcats+and+Hornet+on+Deck Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Ship turning left - at low speed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589276467975-Y5OHBYJ66AXPX0NXIG0M/Tomcat+F%2F14+taxiing+up+to+catapult+on+USS+Dwight+D+Eisenhower+Aircraft+Carrier Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Aircraft Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589276714855-3N0NLPD9YEJUDTARXJIL/Flight+Deck+Crew+preparing+Hornet+for+Take-off+on+Aircraft+Carrier+USS+Eisenhower Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Kneel the nose leg, or unfold your wings? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1589282771037-5WL0A1CNMSIJM4AKIZPJ/Concorde+Landing+on+Aircraft+Carrier+-+Mock+up Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Concorde Crew All At Sea Just kidding! https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/the-day-the-wing-fell-off monthly 0.5 2020-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588163330349-XET3V8ISDY6MG5CL1ZNT/Neil+Williams+Zlin+Crash+Landing+1970 Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - The Day The Wing Fell Off Neil Williams Zlin Crash Landing 1970 https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/the-day-the-wing-fell-off https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/world-heavyweight-aerobatics monthly 0.5 2020-06-29 https://www.flyingthings.org/flying-articles/making-connections-with-everything monthly 0.5 2020-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588159701999-7XSCTM6KB9K20CWX4YOZ/Windsurfer+falling+off+board.+Wave+sailing+Barbados Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Making Connections With Everything Fabrice Ejects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588159768405-DGX8N8QNDS7MTKA1GZ5M/Lion+looking+fierce. 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As the leader draws abeam us a trail of brown smoke streams past the cockpit for a split second. © Peter Steehouwer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588159574054-FZRZL2QPAA789VLZETX2/F18+pulling+G+at+Axalp+Swiss+Air+Force+Airshow Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 F18 Pulling Some G In The Valley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588159497788-A9S8QP5YTNXDW0D7DYQC/F5+Tiger+Figure+8+Formation.+Axalp+Swiss+Air+Force+Air+Show Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 8 Sqn. Flypast - © Peter Steerhouwer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588158512619-CEONJRFWIJJE10CJZPN1/Live-Fire+Targets+Axalp+Swiss+Airforce+Airshow Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 - Ten seconds behind them the next pair do the same thing – similarly followed by a third and fourth. What a feast of dynamic action, eight aeroplanes whizzing past shooting and making lots of noise – fantastic. We wait for the second pass and can hear the jets somewhere over the lake but can’t see them; they must be close, but where are they? The first one appears from close behind our shoulders as he levels his wings – then fires a second later – 200 feet in front of our faces. The line is different this time, thirty degrees across the valley, with limited prior sight of the second target (a couple of red plastic sheets, by the way), and slants towards the mountainside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588159337919-YSIX4FCNXMBFTGGNK9DA/F5+Tiger+flypast+at+Axalp+Swiss+Air+Force+Live-Fire+Demonstration Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 - I caught the last aeroplane quarter rolling to the west just before he vanished down the back. Ahah! They’re going to fly round the back of the Axalphorn, down the Axalp valley to our right and out to the lake, maybe to come back again from behind. But no - they come back over the 10,000 ft ridge and down the mountain the way they went up, this time pulling out in front of us and firing at another target on the hillside alongside us, then half rolling and pulling down over the edge and disappearing into the haze below. The mind is reeling by now. Photo © Henk Tito https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588158243107-YV8CL55BD8D0K7P9WTGB/Super+Puma+Helicopter+Flares+Demonstration+Axalp+Swiss+Air+Force+Airshow Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 Helicopter Fireworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588158324674-FTYERV3KNA66243R47PJ/F5+Tiger+Fighter+Jets+taking+off+at+Meiringen+Air+Base+for+Axalp+Swiss+Air+Force+Airshow Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 - The F5 Northrop Tiger first flew in 1959. It’s reliable, easy to maintain, has two Learjet engines (with significant reheat) and is small, in fact it looks like a 3/4 scale fighter replica; but it’s well supersonic (good for 900kts), will climb at 30,000 fpm, has straight wings, is easy to fly and makes tons of noise. The fuselage is just wide enough for the pilot who sits on the floor (more or less) behind two automatic five-chamber Colt revolvers in the nose. They do everything in pairs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588158451705-OL2QHBQ0Y5FHJGEA9WMH/f5-rock-wall-trails.jpeg Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 - Then we hear the crackle and brrrpp at the same time as maximum aeroplane noise. The major was right – it’s a serious sensory event. Immediately the dinky fighter throws on rather more than ninety degrees of bank and pulls hard to closely follow the contours of our ridge; around, down, and out of sight through a dip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1587568279306-LC3FVFZ22JII2613SGHL/F%2F18+Hornet+vertical+flight+in+front+of+cliff+face.+Axalp+Swiss+Air+Force+Airshow Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 - The two of them scamper vertically up the rock face like two kittens running up the curtains. A half roll and a tight pull over the top and they’ve gone. Suddenly I’ve got it. They’re low flying up the seventy degree mountain side as if it were level ground. This is what they meant to do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588158138006-D378CBDTQNJDC6DESNRF/Swiss+Air+Force+Axalp+Live+Fire+Demo.+Military+Airshow+Switzerland Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 The Walk To The Viewing Area (targets 1 & 2 on the right) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ecf0a7c25ea4b2685a11a/1588159422905-VVI3R87CMJS8DAWVT84S/Live-Fire+Targets+on+mountain-side+at+Axalp+Swiss+Air+Force+Air+Show Flying Things Blog | Unique Aviation Articles - Axalp 2007 - They finished the shooting with one pair firing a long burst of sparkly shells at the vertical cliff target. Yes, they really do hit it – and could seriously damage your cowshed with one pass. 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