Forum: General Aviation Section

Name that airport! Here is a quiz for all of you, that knows airports around the world..... name that airport! (I may not know all the correct...

I couldn't think of anything more apt for these old warhorses, over the period of any war there were some highly remarkable aircraft designed, built...

Some of you may remember me long ago posting photos of the plane I built. Yesterday I found out that the person who purchased it was killed in a...

My fathers Piper Arrow is equipped with various modern electronics. The most modern, installed 6 months ago, is this Aspen flat panel display. ...

The Super Jumbo Airbus 380 comes into service world wide. This thread started with a whole 25 pages back at the old forum: ...

Some threads about the Boeing 747 found at our old forum first: http://captainsvoyage.7.forumer.com/search.php?mode=results Enter Boeing 747 in...

News from/about Thai Airways Continuing from the old forum: News from - and about - THAI AIRWAYS THAI talks new jets with Airbus, Boeing ...

Found this 21 minutes long video from YouTube on an aviation forum. Like the nostalgic person I might be, I just had to make sure others watched it...

Divers found a German WW2 plane at 60-meters depth Picture: Nærøysund Aquaservice Source:...

You gotta love these mad pilots, and admire them at the same time! Extreme Landings Would you fly with them?

March 19, 2009 -- The sixth and final Boeing 787 Dreamliner designated for flight test is now undergoing final assembly in Everett, Wash. The...

News from/about Airbus... in general. I was convinced we had a thread with this heading before, but I just had to give up finding it... maybe it...

Swiss Air flight 111 air crash New York-Geneva September 2nd 1998 I made a post recently with clips from another episode of Air Crash...

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA has placed orders with Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Airbus S.A.S. comprising a total of 372 aircraft whereof 222 are on...

Want to see a video way, WAY above average from the c0ckpit of an Airbus A-320...??? Well, I have no more comments, go fullscreen, put some volume...

Dedicated to all Yeller Belly aviation fanatics.

A private plane fell into the sea just off the Island of Guersey , Channel islands at the weekend . Rescue services from France and Guernsey...

Aviation enthusiasts the people accessing this site may well be, but it is not to say that all can afford their own Cessna, Leah Jet or Jumbo! So,...

It's that time of year again for my wife and myself to take the pilgrimage to RAF Waddington Airshow. As we say the mission is on and accepted, and...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_in_fiction I found it very interesting or should I say creepy that the actual Concorde used in the movie...

List of Ten busiest airports of the world... http://travel.sympatico.ca/PhotoGalleries/articles/worlds_busiest_airports_trip_atlas

Could the day be getting nearer where we will once again be crossing the Atlantic on an Airship? Using a fifth of the fuel a conventional passenger...

THE RED ARROWS ARRIVE AT JERSEY AIRPORT On wednesday I saw the Red Arrows fly in formation over my home to the Airport with the black ( ...

Time to give this old girl her own thread. I will kick off with this news concerning the terrible accident in Paris 10 years ago. A four...

SK - Scandinavian Airlines. All over the news here in Norway today, SAS is in extreme difficulties financially and may be called bankrupt soon...

You may or may not know that this afternoon Red Pilot 4 Jon Egging suffered a fatal crash at Bournemouth Air Display. An immensely sad day for his...

All of us will remember the tragic accident in 2003. Seven lives were lost when the orbiter Columbia broke up upon re-entry to the Earth's...

Quote from breaking news item. This does not sound good.

A Boeing 747-200 becomes a youth hostel in Stockholm At the old board, we had a thread about this 747 becoming a youth hostel in Stockholm: A...

When looking through some old boxes tonight, I also found some analog photos from back in 2002/3 when we was on vacation in sweet Sweden. Upon...

In the old forum we had a thread for spaceflight stuff with particular reference to NASA TV...

Yep! RAF Waddington Airshow is already underway on the Saturday session, I'm there on Sunday session. Photos to come Sunday night:

On a flight from Singapore to Shanghai last week I got aware of the ground speed recorded on the screen in front of me: 1,133 km/hr. (Actually it...

Sadly, for us warbird enthusiasts, the Chicago Tribune reports that the beautiful B-17 "Liberty Belle" of the Liberty Foundation burned out in a...

After delivering 7 tonnes of fuel and supplies to the International Space Station, Europe's space freighter "ATV-Johannes Kepler" is all set to...

Air crash reports publically available http://www.aibn.no/luftfart/rapporter/2010-18 Report on serious aviation incident at Oslo Airport on...

75 years since Norway's first air disaster http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/innenriks/article1647159.ece A JU (Junker) 52 by the name of Havørn...

Looking at UK air traffic this morning, I found that the airports throughout Scotland and the north of England are closed. It is rather dramatically...

Well, here's a link to a timelapse movie made by use of a Canon 5D and a tri-pod onboard an Air France A-340 from San Francisco to Paris. In the...

There is a lot of talk since photos have surfaced showing the remains of the helicopter destroyed (intentionally) during the Bin Laden raid. Anybody...

Today is the 50-year anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight on 12th April 1961. Here is a link to a BBC article, and there have been some...

This little video on YouTube makes me mad. I know we need some sort of security at airports around, but does a 6-year old child have to go through...

Oslo - New York in just one hour? What do YOU think? Will it ever be a reality? (hi) ...

It is a very sad day for Gulfstream. Their new G650 has crashed during testing killing four. ...

Orient Thai Airways (One Two Go) Another thread about an air-crash with this airline: Orient Thai Airways OG/OX269 Crash @ Phuket Some news...

FYI-Just saw on facebook that Boeing was awarded the USAF tanker contract