APG 124 – Amelia Earhart Circumnavigation, Harrier Lands without Nose Gear

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This summer, Amelia Rose Earhart will recreate and symbolically complete her namesake’s famous around-the-world-flight. In 17 stops and approximately 24,300 nautical miles, Amelia will fly a Pilatus PC-12 NG around the globe, completing the flight that her namesake never got to finish. Follow her progress here: Amelia Earhart Project

A USMC pilot uses his superior airmanship to successfully land a stricken Harrier jet. Marine Corps Harrier Jet Nose Gear Malfunction

A United flight had to divert shortly into its journey because of an uncommanded escape slide inflation during the flight. No one was injured.

Rollin W. King, a co-founder of Southwest Airlines, the low-cost carrier that helped to change the way Americans travel, died Thursday in Dallas. He was 83. The cause was complications from a stroke he had a year ago. We discuss the history of the low-cost Texas startup.

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