by captjeff | Mar 12, 2018 | Plane Tales
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Air travel is, statistically, the very safest form of transport but it wasn’t always that way. Imagine living in Elizabeth, a suburb near New York’s Newark airport in 1951 when, within a period of only 3 months, aircraft began raining from the sky onto your neighborhood.
The crash site of Flight 1678M.
An American Airways Convair CV240.
A National Airways CD6.
The City of Elizabeth today.
Images under Creative Commons licence, US Gov Bureau of Aircraft Accidents, Dagrecco, Jon Proctor, Bill Larkins.
by captjeff | Mar 12, 2018 | Podcast
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- [1:06:00] Joe – Advice on cabin crew training and getting to the Flight Deck
- [1:10:41] Zach – Wing Dings
- [1:23:45] FO Mike – Experience or Aircraft?
- [1:37:47] Carl/Mark – Interesting PIREP into IAD
- [1:40:25] Paul – Explaining N1
- [1:51:06] Jonathan- N1 vs. Thrust
- [1:57:07] Tommy – New Commercial Pilot!
- [1:58:55] Andy – Some thoughts on age in the cockpit, decisions and helping with accuracy!!
- [2:02:07] Tony – How to board an aircraft on the right side
- [2:03:26] Plane Tale – The Fears of Elizabeth
- [2:25:07] Mathew – Introduction, PT idea and invitation to Abbotsford Airshow
- [2:28:51] Lufty Luis – Follow up on Ryanair Incident from 313
- [2:34:25] Vaughan – Thanks for Covering his Feedback, Nick’s Boston Crewlog
- [2:38:44] James – Brit aviator in the US – Observations and an Invitation
- [2:46:56] Jim – Connected Weather Radar
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by captjeff | Mar 4, 2018 | Podcast
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by captjeff | Mar 4, 2018 | Plane Tales
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Capt Nick delves into Volume 2 of his RAF Form 414… the PILOTS FLYING LOG BOOK.
by captjeff | Feb 24, 2018 | Plane Tales
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Towards the end of the Second World War, Nazi scientists developed a series of futuristic weapons to use against England aimed to bring the British people to their knees. Named Vengeance weapons, their presence in the skies over London was another German threat that had to be dealt with.
A German Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 H-22. This version could carry FZG 76 (V1) flying bombs, but only a few aircraft were produced in 1944. Some were used by bomb wing KG 3.
A cutaway of the V1 created for the USAF.
An image of a Spitfire using its wing to turn over a V1 flying bomb.
A recreation of a V1 launch ramp on display at Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
Images shown under a Creative Commons licence with thanks to Nick D, the Imperial War Museum, the Bundesarchiv and the US Gov USAF Museum.
