🇺🇸 A B-2 BOMBER MERGED FROM THE CLOUDS OVER THE ROSE BOWL AND IT'S THE MOST AMERICAN THING YOU'LL SEE TODAY
Delayed by rain.
Showed up at halftime instead.
Emerged against a stormy sky and mountain backdrop like something out of a movie.
This is a plane designed to end civilizations, casually doing a flyover for a college football game.
Terrifyingly beautiful.
Source: @ESPNCFB
LISTEN TO THE MOMENT GARMIN EMERGENCY AUTOLAND SYSTEM ONBOARD BEECHCRAFT SUPER KING AIR ALERTED ATC AFTER PILOT INCAPACITATION.
On Dec 20, a Beechcraft Super King Air N479BR flying from Aspen to Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport went silent about 20 minutes into the short hop when the pilot stopped responding to ATC. Someone onboard activated Garmin Emergency Autoland, which immediately declared an emergency, coordinated with ATC, cleared its own flight path, and autonomously landed on Runway 30 at 2:19 p.m. Fire crews were standing by as a precaution — everyone onboard was safe.
Garmin confirmed the successful activation, marking the first real-world use of FAA-certified Autoland technology since its approval in 2020. A major milestone for aviation safety, especially for single-pilot operations where incapacitation has long been a fatal risk.
The pilot’s condition and number of passengers have not yet been disclosed.
🎧 Audio: LiveATC
📹: 1. Garmin 2. adamlendi
A Warning from History.
A year after WW1 ended, A French Pilot, Jacques Trolley de Prévaux, flew an Airship from the Belgian coast to the devastated battlefields of France where millions died.
Lost for decades this is part of what he saw remastered in color and HD.
This gorgeous torque turn:
He pulled in collective to climb, pushed the cyclic to the right to induce the slide, put in left pedal to swing the nose around, then went into the dive....🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
On the way back from my excellent Asia adventure covering Pete Hegseth I sat in the cockpit of an E-4B nuclear command aircraft and watched amazing pilots do a nighttime mid-air refueling. Second most fun I’ve had as a newspaper man (First was firing a minigun from an AF spec ops helo)
El jueves fue el día del aviador en Brasil🇧🇷
Espero que todos los colegas brasileños hayan tenido un feliz día,
especialmente el capitán Roni y el primer oficial Leonardo que no tuvieron un gran día en el simulador.
Spoiler alert‼️
No dejen de estar atentos al fondo.
The end of an era at SXM!
🛫 The last scheduled 747 takeoff from Sint Maarten — October 28, 2016.
KLM 785 to Curaçao 🇨🇼 | PH-BFN "City of Nairobi"
What a sight! Long Live the Queen of the Sky.
📹: planehound(YouTube)