As the Red Bull Air Race World Championship heads to Spielberg, Austria, for the second race of the season, Austrian pilot Hannes Arch got in a little practice at the Tauern Wind Park in his hometown of Styria, Austria. Arch turned one of the world’s highest windfarms – located at 6,200 feet above sea level […]
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Pictures of the day: Search and rescue
Suresh Kumar Bista sent in this photos, taken while he was flying at 28,000 feet, towards and over Mount Kanchanjunga in east Nepal to look for missing mountaineers (French nationals and few Sherpas), who claimed to have reached the top without use of supplemental oxygen. They went missing, he reports.
Video: I love to fly
The title to the newest video from our friends at FunPlacesToFly.com says it all: “I love to fly. It doesn’t matter how much it costs!” But they do add: “If you love something this much, you’ll find a way to make it happen.”
Video: Drone display set world record
A display of drone technology by Intel Corporation with 100 small remotely piloted aircraft being launched skywards in formation has earned a new world record title for the Most Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously.
Video: Backcountry adventures
A quick search for backcountry flying on YouTube brought up this stunning video by Flying Pooch Productions. Check it out: https://youtu.be/NGA5kZCC8Sc
Video STOL Tips: Going around
Backcountry Aviation‘s Patrick Romano continues his series of STOL Tips with Going Around, in which he talks about go-arounds and balked landings, a useful technique for safely aborting a landing or evaluating a landing zone, but also an action that can often increase the workload on the pilot. You can read the story on BackcountryPilot.org […]
Video STOL Tips: Takeoff
Backcountry Aviation‘s Patrick Romano continues his series of STOL Tips with Takeoff, which he says is an “often overlooked but critical skill for backcountry performance and safety.” Read the story at BackcountryPilot.org, then check out this video: See the first tip here.
STOL Tips: Attitude flying
Interested in learning more about backcountry flying? Patrick Romano of Backcountry Aviation published a series of stories and videos on BackcountryPilot.org that will give you tons of tips on mastering the techniques needed to be successful. The first installment of The Approach — a series on strategy for approaching and departing backcountry airstrips — covers final approach, and shows […]
Pictures of the day: Why I love flying
Bogere Tonny sent in these photos, with a quick email: “I love flying…WHY? Because defying gravity is what I do!”