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Civilian aviation news November 4, 2013

Air India Dreamliner windshield cracks while landing in Melbourne

(AFP) An Air India Dreamliner windshield cracked while landing in Australia, an airline official said Monday, the latest in a string of mishaps the aircraft…

Civilian aviation news October 24, 2013

JAL may take legal action against government over landing slots

(Reuters) – Japan Airlines (9201.T) reserves the right to sue the Japanese government for favoring rival ANA Holdings (9202.T) by allocating it more landing slots,…

General Aviation News October 24, 2013

Great short documentary about US WWII pilot seeing his crash landings footage in 1944 for the first time.

In 2005, an 83 year-old World War II pilot is surprised to see 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash for the first…

Military Aviation News August 20, 2013

F-35B Accomplishes First Night Vertical Landing Aboard USS Wasp

FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 20, 2013 – Last Wednesday, Aug. 14, U.S. Marine Corps test pilot Lt. Col. Russell Clift performed the first F-35B night-time…

Civilian aviation news, General Aviation News July 23, 2013

Delays at New York airport after rough Southwest landing

(Reuters) – A runway at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, shut after the front landing gear on a Southwest Airlines jet collapsed on touchdown Monday…

Civilian aviation news July 15, 2013

Eurocopter develops a new flight guidance concept for quieter helicopter landing procedures

Eurocopter has successfully demonstrated new landing procedures relying on augmented satellite guidance that can be tailored to more completely comply with the local environmental requirements….

Military Aviation News July 11, 2013

US Navy Drone X-47B Makes First Aircraft Carrier Landing

X-47B, an experimental bat-winged unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the US Navy, performed the first-ever arrested landing aboard an aircraft carrier on Wednesday. The US…

Military Aviation News June 3, 2013

U.K. test pilot completes first F-35B vertical landing

Royal Air Force Squadron Leader James Schofield completed the first vertical landing by a United Kingdom military test pilot May 28, 2013 at Naval Air…

Civilian aviation news May 2, 2013

Fokker Services and DynamicSource AB launch aircraft take-off and landing performance calculation application for iPad®

Fokker Services and DynamicSource AB have jointly developed an iOS Application to run FORTRAN Take-Off and Landing SCAP modules on the Apple iPad®. The app…

Civilian aviation news April 27, 2013

9/11 plane landing gear found in lower Manhattan

A part of the landing gear, apparently from one of the commercial airliners destroyed on September 11, 2001, is seen wedged between two buildings in…

Military Aviation News April 5, 2013

F-35B Conducts First Night Time Vertical Landing

An F-35B Lightning II completed the first short takeoff and vertical landing during a test mission at night to expand the flight envelope and deliver…

Civilian aviation news October 8, 2012

Forced landing in NW China after terror warning

An International passenger plane made a forced landing in northwest China’s Gansu province on Monday afternoon after receiving an anonymous terrorist threat, airline and local…

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