Flippin 'eck!

Flippin man hurt in aircraft wreck

BUFORD - A Flippin man was injured Wednesday when his powered parachute crashed in a field. Jim Williams, 61, was flying a powered parachute in the White River Valley subdivision near Buford when a wind current caused the powered parachute to crash.

(Spotted in The Baxter Bulletin, Mountain Home, Arkansas.)

Coals to Kolkata?

Indian air force Antonov An-32 takes off from Male International airport, Maldives, trailing its usual smoky exhaust.

Watching US pilot in charter jet at holding point: "Outbound IAF - is your engine condition OK?"

Indian air force pilot: "Roger Sam, all settings optimum."

Sam: "Must say, you're really smoking' pal. Confirm what ATF [aviation turbine fuel] ha, ha "

IAF: "Roger that Sam .not ATF charcoal!"

(Sent by nephew Nikil Rangadas on behalf of Wg Cdr Pranay Garg.) JT9D with captions

 

Just checking

Uncle Sam, which as everyone knows has de facto control over space and human spaceflight anyway, recently decided that when the Federal Aviation Administration issued a final rule on the subject, it might as well be consistent with the second amendment of the constitution. This, in case you don't know, protects the collective right to bear arms. Someone then pointed out that if airline passengers weren't allowed to bring guns, knives and other weapons on to aircraft, then it probably wasn't a good idea to suddenly change this law at altitudes above 328,000ft (100,000m).

In late February the administration issued this "correction":

"The FAA now withdraws that characterisation. The FAA continues to believe that the possession of weapons by spaceflight participants on board a sub­orbital rocket poses an unacceptably high risk to the integrity of the vehicle and the safety of the public, and that the rule is consistent with the second amendment."

map of stuttgart

Hypersonic Delta?

Under the clever guise of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Delta Air Lines has, it seems, been secretly developing a hypersonic transport. Forget your Sonic Snoozers, this fabulous bird - cunningly disguised on the ground as a ye olde Megaplanes 767-300ER - apparently rockets up to the stratosphere in record time. The proof, as spotted on this screenshot by nephew Thomas Stuenkel on 27 February, is "plane" to see. As Thomas says: "Three minutes after getting airborne, this 767-332ER had reached 127,600ft already. Is that the final bye-bye to Concorde?"

(From www.delta.com tracking Delta's flight 117 from Stuttgart, Germany to Atlanta, Georgia).

50 years ago inverse colors TN Read Flight from 1956 or read Uncle Roger's web log.

 

 




Source: Flight International

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