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Granting Weightless Wishes

ESA participated in the Kid’s Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and Rêves de Gosse giving children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on a parabolic flight.

2 mins

Legacy 450 Love At First Sight

The fields of sugarcane soak up the hot Brazilian sun in the month of March and soak in the summer rain storms to produce high quantities of sugar in the Araraquara region. On the outskirts of the Gavião Peixoto airfield awaits the Legacy 450, Embraer’s latest business jet that we are taking out for a flight.

10+ mins

Evektor EV-55 Outback Set For Certification 2020

Robust, hard working, a plane for all conditions, workhorse – all words that can be used to describe the latest offering from Czech Republic manufacturer, Evektor. Aptly named EV-55 Outback, the eagerly anticipated twin turboprop seems set to slot right in with the likes of the Cessna Caravan, Kodiak and others of the same ilk.

3 mins

Rescue From The Sahara Desert

Our Dutch charter company, based at Rotterdam Airport, was busy and we attracted some large and interesting clients. This story deals with me getting a diplomatic passport, but we will get to that later. As you might have read before, we had a contract with a large printing company in Rotterdam, collecting an envelope with printing materials every Monday at Paris Le Bourget Airport.

6 mins

Helicopters And The Night Sea

“When a helicopter and two crew are lost to the most fundamental accident cause that has bedevilled offshore crew for years, it is time to reflect if indeed we have made progress in real terms”

9 mins

Huon-Class Minehunter

The Huon class Minehunter Coastal (MHC) ships are a group of minehunters built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Following problems with the Bay class minehunters. A request for tender was issued in 1993 for a class of six coastal minehunters under the project designation SEA 1555. Originally designed in Italy as the Gaeta Class for the Italian Navy, the RAN Huon Class has been modified to suit Australian conditions, including improved accommodation and mine hunting capabilities.

4 mins

Britain's Second Aircraft Carrier Named In Rosyth

HMS Prince of Wales, the second of the Royal Navy’s two future flagships being built by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, has been officially named during a ceremony in Rosyth, Scotland.

3 mins

Vipers At Ohakea

On 30 August six F-16D Block 52 Plus (F-16D-52+) of the Singapore Air Force arrived at Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Ohakea for a three week training deployment.

1 min

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Global Aviator Magazine Description:

• SAA accidents from 1937 - 1987
• Changes in Store for Pilots during 2013
• Batteries can fly - dreamliners cannot
• The value of a good CRM
• Final data from Red Bull Stratos freefall.
• USS Harry S Truman - Multifunctional taskforce in the Arabian sea
• Handover of Botswana Defence Force PC-7 MkII
• Nigel Hopkins - Aerobatics and Airliners do go
• Denel Pilots spread their wings into Africa
• The growing potential of Russian Helicopters in Latin America
• Snake on a plane!
• The anmanned problem
• Airborne Insurance and Aircraft Finance Coporation Student of the year award
• Rolls Royce Trent 1000 visited
• Gulfstream G280 sets 15 new city-pair speed records as part of the reliability demonstration program

And lots more!!