The crash of United Airlines Flight 173 led the airline industry as a whole to adopt Crew Resource Management (CRM). United…
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Civil Aviation
The Story of the Concorde Supersonic Airliner that Chased a Solar Eclipse and set a World Record
by Dario LeoneConcorde 001 was specially modified with rooftop portholes for the mission, and is currently on display with the Solar Eclipse mission livery at Musée…
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Civil Aviation
That Time Tex Johnston Barrel Rolled Boeing 367-80 (AKA Boeing 707 Prototype)
by Dario LeoneBoeing’s 367-80, nicknamed the “Dash 80” was scheduled to perform a simple flyover, but Tex Johnston instead performed a barnstormer style…
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Civil Aviation
Supersonic DC-8, i.e. the Concorde wasn’t the first Airliner to Break the Sound Barrier
by Dario LeoneChuck Yeager, the first person to ever go supersonic in 1947, escorted the DC-8 during its supersonic flight in an F-104…
