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Now this is a LOW pass.

From Facebook.

I see where they found some mobile phones which fell from the plane and they were still working.

The Focke-Wulf Ta 400 was a large six-engined heavy bomber design developed in Nazi Germany in 1943 by Focke-Wulf as a serious contender for the Amerikabomber project. One of the first aircraft to be developed from components from multiple countries, it was also one of the most advanced Focke-Wulf designs of World War II, though it never progressed beyond a wind tunnel model.

Designed as a bomber and long-range reconnaissance plane by Kurt Tank, the Ta 400 had a shoulder-mounted wing with 4° dihedral. One of the most striking features were the six BMW 801D radial engines, to which two Jumo 004 jet engines were later added.

A Max 9 door plug undergoing checking.

Two people have been injured after a plane carrying ten people, including a young child, crashed on a luxury island near the Great Barrier Reef.

Two rescue helicopters and a Royal Flying Doctor Service plane have been deployed to the scene at Lizard Island, a small granite island about 1624km northwest of Brisbane, following reports of the crash around 7.30am on Monday.

A Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) spokeswoman said 10 patients were assessed by emergency services.

Two were of concern but the rest only suffered minor injuries.

The spokeswoman said the aircraft appeared to have overshot while navigating the island’s runway, which is less than a kilometre long.

Lizard Island is serviced by Cessna Caravans.

I didn't create the cartoon.

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A Beverley grandfather has died after the microlight aircraft he was in crashed in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt.

John Willson’s family had been watching the keen aviation enthusiast on a solo flight when the aircraft crashed shortly after 11am on Saturday onto his neighbour’s property in Beverley, located about 130 kilometres south-east of Perth.

Willson sustained critical injuries in the incident and died shortly after.

It is understood the 69-year-old pilot, who had two decades worth of flying experience, lost control of the microlight aircraft a short distance from the Wheatbelt town’s airstrip.

Willson’s daughter Hayley told Nine News Perth her father was a beloved member of the community and a keen aviation enthusiast.
“John was a brilliant musician and inspiration to his family,” she said.

The 69-year-old leaves behind his wife, Marlene, three daughters and four grandchildren.

WA Police Inspector Jason Beesley said it was a terrible situation for the family, who were present at the time.

Beesley said the community were shattered by the incident and would be rallying around the family.

http://Beverley grandfather killed in microlight aircraft crash

A Boeing 737 MAX 9 operated by Alaska Airlines diverted to Portland International Airport (PDX) on Friday after losing the mid-aft door, window, and an unoccupied seat during takeoff. According to multiple reports, the aircraft suffered a rapid decompression, prompting the crew to make an emergency landing.

Video capturing the terrifying occurrence shows the emergency exit was fully torn off from the plane's fuselage with oxygen masks hanging from the cabin ceiling. Alaska is investigating the cause of the incident.

Details of the incident.

The aircraft, registered as N704AL, was operating as AS1282 from PDX to Ontario International Airport (ONT) with more than 170 passengers onboard. It departed from Runway 28L at 17:07 and quickly gained altitude, reaching more than 3,000 feet one minute after take off. Two minutes into the flight, the aircraft was climbing through 5,000 feet over the Columbia River and turned southeast.

The aircraft is new to Alaska, having been in service for less than three months. Decompression tore the shirt off a toddler onboard.

New details have emerged about this week's fatal plane crash in Japan.

The pilots of the Japan Airlines flight that collided with a smaller plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport were initially unaware that their jet was on fire.

Flight attendants alerted crew in the cockpit to the unfolding situation, after the impact caused severe damage to the aircrafts intercom system.

There has been mixed reaction from passengers over the airlines handling of the disaster.

The revelations come amid new security vision that shows the coast guard plane stopping on the runway for about 40 seconds before the collision.

Is this within specs?

Facebook video of landing helicopter

The Fairchild F-46 is a low-wing, cabin aircraft, with conventional landing gear and structures made using Duramold processes. The fuselage is constructed of two halves bonded together. The wings use wooden spars with plywood covering. The control surfaces use aluminum frames with aircraft fabric covering. A 50 U.S. gallons (190 L; 42 imp gal) fuel tank was mounted in each wing. Only one unit was built, and is currently being restored at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, Hood River, Oregon.

The de Havilland DH.29 Doncaster was a British long-range high-wing monoplane of the 1920s built by de Havilland.

The DH.29 Doncaster was ordered by the British Air Ministry as an experimental long-range monoplane. The aircraft was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with unswept wings of wooden structure with a fabric covering. It had a box section wooden fuselage with a single fin. The crew of two sat in an open cockpit ahead of the wing. Two aircraft were built between 1920 and 1921 at Stag Lane Aerodrome. Early testing of the first aircraft (Serial J6849) resulted in a redesign of the engine installation. The second aircraft (Registered G-EAYO) was built as a ten-seat commercial aircraft. The airlines were not interested and further development was abandoned, effort being put into the biplane de Havilland DH.34. A proposed military reconnaissance version, the DH.30, was never built. The two aircraft finished their life at RAF Martlesham Heath with tests and trials, particularly on the thick-section cantilever wings. The Doncaster was the first British aircraft to use such wings.

Boeing has asked airlines to inspect all of their 737 Max jets for a potential loose bolt in the rudder system after an airline discovered a potential problem with a key part on two aircraft. 

An unnamed international airline found a bolt with a missing nut in a rudder-control linkage mechanism while conducting routine maintenance – and it found a similar bolt that wasn't properly tightened in a yet-to-be delivered plane. An airplane's rudder is used to control and stabilise the aircraft while in flight.

Boeing said the plane with the missing bolt was fixed, but it wants to ensure all 1370 of the 737 Max planes in service worldwide are checked for similar problems.

That's why it's in the SILLY aviation pictures thread,

Here is an interesting walk back through time to the glamorous age of flying, when meals were served on china, carved in front of you, and you could smoke to your heart's content.

The golden age of flying.

The Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk (previously designated the XP-87) was a prototype American all-weather jet fighter-interceptor, and the company's last aircraft project. Designed as a replacement for the World War II–era propeller-driven P-61 Black Widow night/interceptor aircraft, the XF-87 lost in government procurement competition to the Northrop F-89 Scorpion. The loss of the contract was fatal to the company; the Curtiss-Wright Corporation closed down its aviation division, selling its assets to North American Aviation. Only 2 prototypes built.

The Curtiss-Wright X-19, company designation Model 200, was an American experimental tiltrotor aircraft of the early 1960s. It was noteworthy for being the last aircraft of any kind manufactured by Curtiss-Wright.

In March 1960 the Curtiss-Wright Corporation developed the X-100, a prototype for a new, vertical takeoff transport aircraft. The X-100 had a single turboshaft engine, which propelled two tilting-propellers, while at the tail swivelling nozzles used the engine's exhaust gases to give additional control for hovering or slow flight. Although sometimes classified as a tiltrotor aircraft, the design differed from the Bell VTOL XV tiltrotor designs. The X-19 utilized specially designed radial lift propellers, rather than helicopter-like rotors, for vertical takeoff and augmenting the lift provided by the wing structures.

From the X-100 Curtiss-Wright developed the larger X-200, of which the United States Air Force ordered two prototypes designated the X-19A.

The X-19 had fore and aft high-mounted tandem wings. Each wing mounted two 13 ft (4.0 m) propellers that could be rotated through 90 degrees, allowing the aircraft to take off and land like a helicopter. The propellers were driven by twin Avco Lycoming T55-L-5 turboshaft engines mounted in the fuselage.

The Curtiss-Wright C-76 Caravan (company designation CW-27) was an American all-wood military transport aircraft. The C-76 was intended as a substitute standard aircraft in the event of expected wartime shortages of light alloys. However, both prototype and production aircraft failed several critical flight and static tests, and after U.S. aluminum production proved sufficient for wartime defense requirements, orders for the C-76 were cancelled and production terminated.

Number built    25 (11 prototypes, 5 production C-76, 9 revised YC-76A)

Strong crosswind...