Old-time tower climbers say that if you hang next to an FM antenna radiating 50 kW, you'll feel heating in your eyes first. This balloon stopped 43 feet short of an antenna radiating 100 kW.
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The green-speckled mounds of dough looked deeply unconvinced about their prospects.
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Lasers shooting down the wrong drones. Laptops vanishing through the floor of a passenger jet. A bullet hole nobody noticed until landing. It's only February. fearoflanding.com/crazy/lasers...
Lit sign over glossy white lobby that says International Departures
Airport #2
Cappuccino and cookie
Airport #1
The Century 2000 autopilot doesn't trim for you. It flashes a light and expects you to do it. If you trim the wrong way, it flashes faster. The NTSB final report on the TNFlygirl Debonair crash is out.
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Heart-shaped cake on a plate decorated with roses and a glass of Cremant.
Happy friendship day.
"We knew we had to get down quickly," the passenger wrote. But did they? The video shows a prop spinning normally, a runway ahead, and then a collision. "Fortunately our pilot with 20+ years experience was able to set us down." fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...
Boeing says the switches work fine if you use the correct technique. The Federation of Indian Pilots says there's an electrical failure mode. The UK CAA wants to know why Air India flew after two switch failures.
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1. Journalism
2. Poetry
3. Accounting
4. (restart) Computational Linguistics
5. Japanese
Well, I did not have "presidential threat to ground 5,000+ aircraft" on my 2026 bingo card.
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I don't know if I'm proud or embarrassed that this is the first job in a while that apparently I'm specifically qualified to do.
Someone left a 1-star review for Goose Bay Airport because the pilot "blocked my access to oxygen". Another gave credit for "hot stewardess susie q for good sandwiches." This is what happens when 127 people review an airport in Labrador.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
"We have high RPM now and will try to make it to the shore."
They didn't make it to the shore.
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All eight main landing gear tyres exploded on impact. That doesn't just happen.
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Five aircraft, three days, Buenos Aires to El Paso via Tallinn. I looked up each registration between connections and found their histories.
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No trespassing sign in front of a field being eaten by a crawling plant.
Small mural of a crescent moon on a cream colored squat building.
Sunset over field and a distant orchard
Evening walk
Crushing hard on Buenos Aires.
Ecoparque Buenos Aires is amazing and I how I can spend more time there
Some men build bridges.
Some insist there was never a bridge to begin with.
Mine had a taxi and very strong opinions.
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"I'm unable to move forward."
The Delta captain sat in the deicing area, engines running, refusing to taxi. He was following the airport's own safety rules. Minutes later, his decision would be vindicated in the worst possible way.
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Grassy banks and yellow-leaved trees reflected in a friendly looking river.
Sitting at the river's edge instead of working.
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The girl who used to be my sister is the featured short SF this week in Nature!
Vridia vanished into the cross-chain relays. Now her sister is following her trail, armed with nothing but an analog notebook and their grandfather's cryptic warning: "Ink never forks."
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I'll be including this in a future post as it is interesting and I wo
uld like to set the record straight. Thank you again.
Ahhh, ok, now I see the gap in my understanding. Thank you. I will go do my homework now! I did my UK PPL under JAR and sometimes don't know what I don't know.
I wondered if that was the point, that it was GA and that flight schools aren't tightly regulated. But really, not a single recommendation, so that teenagers flying with low-hour instructors at least know they've been vetted.
ATP fired him for pulling circuit breakers and cutting mixture during a student's flight. Eagle Aviation took him on immediately without checking his story. Six weeks later he was dead. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...
