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UFO Crash In Quincy? : Mystery Craft Searches For Downed Object, FAA Tells Mayor To Stay Out Of It!

UFO Sightings Daily author Scott C Waring reports a possible UFO crash in the area of Quincy, Massachusetts. The Cessna single-engine airplane, which residents have captured in photos, has been flying overhead for weeks, turning circles...Show More Summary

The Worst Part of Flying on a Cape Air Cessna is Admitting Your True Weight

2 weeks agoLifestyle / Travel : Jaunted

Last week, Jaunted contributor Christine headed down to the US Virgin Islands in a plane smaller than any she had ever been in before. This is her story. Those who travel around the Caribbean often think nothing of boarding an island-hopping...Show More Summary

Airports: Bigwigs, Locals, City Council to Discuss Shuttering SaMo Airport

It seems like no one likes poor Santa Monica Airport except all those rich people flying Cessnas over the Westside. Plans are in the works to reduce flights and possibly close the airport altogether when its agreement with the...

Bird Dogs for the Iraqi Air Force

Cessna 208B:note ISR turret(click to view full) Iraq’s air force has been very slow in getting to its feet. A handful of Seeker light observation aircraft with their distinctive bubble-shaped fronts, a few Comp Air light propeller aircraft, a couple of old, refurbished C-130E transports, and a slowly growing fleet of helicopters. A few Hawker [...]

Virginia Plane Crash: Two Killed When Cessna 210 Crashes Near Williamsburg [Video]

Williamsburg, Va. — Authorities say a husband and wife from Nebraska died Friday when their single-engine plane crashed in Virginia. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the crash happened at 4:53 pm near the Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport, where the a Cessna 210 aircraft was supposed to land. The pilot of the plane, Joseph D. Brown, 54, [...]Show More Summary

'Air Force General' Dies in Virginia Plane Crash

4 weeks agoNews : The Coming Crisis

A pilot who died when his light aircraft crashed just a few metres away from a house was reportedly a US air force general.The single-engine Cessna 210 came down in a field near a retirement community in Williamsburg, Virginia. There...Show More Summary

Highest, fastest flying corporate jet now rolling out

Ensuring perhaps that it keeps the bragging rights to making the world’s fastest civilian jet, Cessna at its Wichita factory has started rolling out production version of its New Citation X corporate jet. There are already test examples of the NCX in flight, but the media photo above from Cessna is really a photo reminder [...]

New Citation X rolls out of the hangar to claim world's fastest business jet crown

last monthTechnology / Gadgets : Gizmag

Following its introduction in 1996, Cessna's Citation X quickly set numerous speed records to claim the title of the fastest operational business jet in the world. With the Gulfstream G650 receiving its type certificate from the FAAShow More Summary

Harrison Ford Arrives At Airport In Private Jet, Leaves In Cessna [Photos]

Harrison Ford was spotted arriving in Los Angeles in a private jet on Thursday. However, the actor didn’t stick around for very long. Shortly after arriving at the airport, the Indiana Jones star quickly made his way to a Cessna. Almost as soon as he arrived, Ford was heading off into the wild blue yonder. [...]Show More Summary

Three dead after plane crash near Iditarod checkpoint

2 months agoNews : Field Notes

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A small plane crashed near a mountain checkpoint along the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, killing all three people aboard, state officials said on Tuesday. Searchers found wreckage of the plane, a Cessna 182, on Tuesday near the 4,000-foot level of Rainy Pass …

Sequestrationgeddon: Airplanes Will Fall From The Sky!

By way of background, I have a private pilot license (I can fly small, single engine planes like a Cessna 172, though I haven't in years). I flew out of an airport like the one described in this story and...

The Joys of Buzzing Market Street in Your Aging Cessna 310 Twin – What’s the “Minimum Safe Altitude” Over SF?

TweetThis is a Cessna 310, or something similar, just after it buzzed the Financial at well under Minimum Safe Altitude, which in this case is 1000-something feet above ground level. Escaping to the northeast: Click to expand Now, do I have your tail number? No I don’t. So you win this round, Flyboy. Regardless, I cry foul. [...]

Airplane Powered Entirely By Plastic Waste Will Travel From Sydney To London

An airplane powered only by waste plastic will be making the journey from Australia to Britain sometime within the next few months (TBD). The “Wings of Waste” Cessna will be piloted by Jeremy Roswell, an Australian pilot looking to raise the public’s awareness of our modern “consume and throw away” culture. Show More Summary

Recycled plastic waste to fuel Sydney to London Cessna flight

3 months agoTechnology / Gadgets : Gizmag

British pilot Jeremy Rowsell is set to fly solo from Sydney to London in a Cessna 182 aircraft powered solely by diesel derived from "end-of-life" plastic (ELP) waste. If all goes to plan, the endeavor will set a new record time forShow More Summary

Pilot Plans First Plastic Waste-Powered Flight

A pioneering British pilot is planning to fly from Sydney, Australia to London on a plane powered by plastic trash. Jeremy Rowsell hopes to get his single-engine Cessna 172 to London in six days, making 16 stops to collect more fuel made from discarded plastic, the Telegraph reports. The diesel...

Plastic Waste-Powered Airplane to Fly 10,500 Miles from Sydney to London

Australian pilot Jeremy Rowsell is set to break new boundaries for alternative energy by flying from Australia to Britain in an airplane powered entirely by plastic waste. Rowsell’s “Wings of Waste” Cessna plane will fly from Sydney to London via Asia, the Middle East, and Europe using fuel refined from “end-of-life” materials such as plastic [...]

Aviation, Liability Law, and Moral Hazard

By 1994 the threat of lawsuits had driven the general aviation industry into the ground. Cessna and Beech ceased production in the 1990s and the other major player, Piper, went bankrupt. The problem was caused by liability law and the long-tail. Cessna, Beech, and Piper had been producing planes since 1927, 1932, and 1927, respectively, [...]

First Afghan Air Force C-208 CASEVAC a success

In another historic step for the Afghan Air Force, an AAF Cessna 208 configured for battlefield casualty evacuation successfully transported a seriously injured solider and three minor casualties from Kandahar, Afghanistan to Kabul International Airport Feb. Show More Summary

Crash Landing POV

Jonathan Fielding captured this first-person video of his family’s harrowing ride in a four-seat Cessna, as it experienced engine problems and crashed into a snowy field in Utah. Incredibly, nobody was injured. Hat Tip Link

Fighter jet chases down small plane near Obama’s Florida resort

(CNN) - A small plane was intercepted and escorted by a fighter jet to a Florida airport Saturday after violating temporary flight restrictions set up for President Obama's visit, according to a military spokesman. The Cessna 152 entered the restricted airspace near the resort where the president is staying in Palm City, according to Army [...]

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