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"The Mason Wing Walking business in Sequim that allowed paying thrill-seekers to clamber over the wings of a 1940s Stearman biplane while in flight is no more. The Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the pilot license of Mike Mason, who flew wing-walking flights for the past 12 years in...

Interesting. The verbal report implies a relatively modest impact, maybe a generally successful autorotation after engine failure: only one "back injury" and three uninjured. But the image shows what seems to be a much more serious wreck, with four very lucky people. Any comments from...

Juan Browne's (Blanolirio) report is good. Confirms comments above about the nature of the inactive emergency exit door, which popped out with no apparent damage to the airframe. HHH

Juan doesn't think they have much of a case. The NTSB report has strong implications that both expectation bias (they say they heard a T/O clearance that didn't happen) plus likely FMS programming distractions, maybe including some that should have been resolved before beginning their T/O roll...

Good review of NTSB Preliminary by Juan Browne HHH

I agree with Ryan. I won't miss them at all. And I don't get the innovation argument. What does it matter if someone can gain 5 knots by tweaking the airframes and power plants of aircraft designed and built decades earlier? HHH

We posted almost simultaneously -- glad to see PoA merged our threads. HHH

I don't follow air racing, but this happened a couple of hours ago and nobody has posted anything yet. Several news stories are out, so far none with more detail than this one, which includes a brief statement from the Reno Air Racing Association. I've never been a fan, but what a sad finale to...

Juan Browne's summary has a photo suggesting the stabilizer was wrecked by the tree. The severed propeller blades apparently were at the site of the wreck, not at the tree; the engine was making power when it hit. HHH

What's a Bushmaster? HHH

Thank you farmrjohn! Very helpful. (As a former north county resident back in my pre-pilot life -- Solana Beach -- I'm well aware of June Gloom! The world is full of people who visit San Diego too early in the summer and get only low clouds until mid afternoon.) Another pilot friend in the...

Looking for advice from those based at or familiar with MYF. I'll be arriving VFR from the north, tentatively via Oceanside VOR (OCN), but of course can swing out to the east to avoid the complex class B if necessary. Expected or suggested routing? Can I expect ATC (Socal Approach) clearance for...

Agree! HHH

CNN reports that NTSB has concluded the incident was not caused by turbulence or otherwise weather related: The National Transportation Safety Board said the aircraft experienced a force about four times the pull of gravity when the pilots disabled a setting that is used to stabilize the...

A week ago Feb 22 (KBUR): https://ktla.com/news/local-news/near-crash-at-hollywood-burbank-airport-prompts-faa-investigation-latest-in-string-of-such-incidents/ And yesterday Feb 28 (KBOS)...

That's a large part of Juan's analysis as well. HHH

Juan Browne's (Blancolirio) analysis (posted above) does a good job of showing how this is both plausible and likely. HHH

Juan says tower thanked FedEx after they came around and landed, but didn't play the audio of that exchange. It seems to imply tower knew they were responsible. HHH

ATC has requested my winds estimate a few times over the years, which I routinely monitor in cruise and for PIREPs. My Bendix-King stack (c. 2002) quickly calculates wind direction and speed by inputting barometer setting, altitude, temp, airspeed, and compass heading. It takes less than 30...

Per Juan (blancolerio.com), SW was holding off the runway when cleared. I thought it was 30 seconds, but even 1.5 minutes doesn't seem so long to taxi into position and get rolling. There's no way this incident is pilot error. It's all on ATC/tower, it seems to me. If Juan is right, the FedEx...