Aero-Tips!

Recently there were two separate incidents, at widely separated airports, of on-runway aircraft collisions involving piston aircraft at non-towered airports. Although it may not have been a factor in either collision, it’s important that pilots properly transmit their location on the airport.

Aero-Linx!

An FAA site for Aviation Safety. Reports galore, in the Safety Data Library. Need to know about bird strikes? It’s in there.

Aero-Naut Pilot or crew of lighter-than-air craft. What, does every category have to have their own fancy word for pilot?

"It's the most dangerous manned spacecraft ever flown, by anybody." Source: Former NASA astronaut -- and three-time shuttle mission specialist -- Mike Mullane, on the inherent risks of the space shuttle orbiters. In his new book "Riding Rockets," Mullane states astronauts flying aboard the shuttle are put at risk by the orbiter's lack of a powered launch escape system, similar to those once used on NASA's Mercury and Apollo flights (and are still used by Russia on Soyuz launches.) Mullane also states the sheepishness of astronauts, including himself, who were afraid to speak up about safety oversights in the wake of the 1986 Challenger tragedy (for fear of being drummed off the flight program) may have indirectly led to the 2002 loss of Columbia