The aircraft was rebuilt, and resumed flight testing on 2 February 1965. On 8 September 1965, the aircraft suffered another fatal crash, once again while in a low altitude hover. The aircraft was being evaluated by United States Air Force Major P E Neale, as part of a Franco-American info...
investigation revealed that VH-USG had been loaded with a spare engine in the rear of the cabin, and that one of the crew members was in the lavatory in the extreme aft of the cabin when control was lost. It was theorised that the aft centre of gravity condition that thus existed resu...
Single-engine aircraft accident, RWY 10/28. 1person on board. South Metro Fire on scene. Stand by for more info.@SouthMetroPIOpic.twitter.com/1Iv8yg4mj0 — Centennial Airport (@FlyCentennial)May 4, 2017 The experimental plane was approaching from the east when the crash happened. The ca...
Also joining us from Kitfox isBrandon Petersenwho joined the team in 2012 as the wing builder. His role has evolved over time. You can find his fingerprints on the company social media posts, videos, wings, and fiberglass products that are shipped to builders around the world. ...
The incident is under investigation. Airport officials said there were no delays to air traffic at Fiumicino Airport. In videos posted on local media, flames could be seen on the right side of the plane before it returned to the airport. More from CBS News Police raid airline's offices af...
held an investigative hearing open to the public in the NTSB Boardroom on August 6-7, 2024. During the hearing, the NTSB gathered sworn testimonies about the Jan. 5, 2024, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug incident. This was a fact-finding step in the safety investigation and the...
National Transportation Safety Board holds press conference on plane crash in Waller Co. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board held a press conference Thursday regarding the ongoing investigation into a plane crash in Waller County on Tuesday. HOUSTON - Investigators say the private ...
the last straw came in 2017, when jackson and walsh were in los angeles. the director told the high court that while surfing the internet, he came upon photos and videos of one of his treasured airplanes that another aviation organization, the new zealand warbirds, was flying outside ...
The first FR-1 prototype flew on 25 June 1944, but was lost in a crash at China Lake NAS in October that year. Investigation showed that the wing rivets were insufficiently strong, a problem cured by doubling the number of rivets, but not before the other two prototypes crashed in similar...
as the aircraft had not been fitted with solar cells. HALSOL's aerodynamics were validated, but the investigation led to the conclusion that neither photovoltaic cell nor energy storage technology were mature enough to make the idea practical for the time being, and so HALSOL was put into stor...