Marc Joel Atrero

Courting Danger This months’s Air Safety is a true story, written from the author’s own fund of flying experience. Though not so much a “close shave” as previous fiction- based-on-fact in this series, it underlines the sort of errors to which even experienced pilots can be subject when un- der pressure. It also provides a

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North American A-5 Vigilante Few aircraft can lay claim to introducing so many new technological features at one time than North American’s Vigilante. Conceived and created in the faster, higher, further period of aviation development, the North American A-5 Vigilante was the pinnacle of military aviation at the time of its first flight in 1958.

The Greening of the Airline Industry? The noise and carbon soot that was generated by earlier generation jet airliners such as the 707 and DC-8 can no longer be accepted in the light of modern aerospace technologies. The 1960s and early 1970s films depicting smoke trails of airliners struggling into the sky are all but

Mig-21 Flys On Wednesday March 2 the tarmac, the runway and the sky all shook as MiG-21UM VH-XXI made its first flight in Australian skies. The former Polish Air Force aircraft had been trans- ported by low loader between Sydney’s Bankstown and Mascot airports late the previous night in order to avoid traffic problems with

Microsoft Flight Simulator Version 5 With CH Flightstick Pro Looking ahead over the cockpit coaming, I can see the runway stretching ahead of the Cessna Skylane RG. Light reflects off the windows of the high rise buildings in downtown Chicago. High level cirrus streaks the sky and it looks like another fine flying day. Back