Bethany Whitfield

Video: Near Collision at Barcelona Airport

Talk about a close encounter. The crew of a UTair Boeing 767-300 preparing to land on Runway 02 at Barcelona-El Prat Airport on Saturday got a big surprise just a few moments before touchdown when an Airbus A340 taxied across the runway, directly intersecting the 767’s landing path. The Aerolíneas Argentinas A340 was headed for […]

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Video: Awesome Aerial Fireworks

As the nation gears up for July 4th firework displays across the country, check out a more unique kind of celebration from the European-based Twister Aerobatics Team. Flying a specially crafted airplane known as the Silence Twister that is built with a honeycomb core and powered by a 107 hp UL Power engine, the team […]

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TWA Flight 800: NTSB Denies Petition to Reopen Investigation

The National Transportation Safety Board has rejected a petition asking the agency to revisit its findings in the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, which exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 12 minutes after takeoff from JFK during a flight to Paris, killing all 230 people aboard. The petition was filed last summer by […]

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Flying Aviation Expo Coming to Palm Springs This Fall

We at Flying magazine are excited to announce the official launch of the first-ever event in our 87-year history. Hosted in partnership with Lift Event Management, Flying will hold this premier aviation event, known as the Flying Aviation Expo, in beautiful Palm Springs, California, this October 31 through November 2. The expo is shaping up […]

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Video: Thousands of Planes in Less than 2 Minutes

Little more than a century after mankind made the first ever powered human flight, aviation has completely transformed the world in which we live, connecting cities across the oceans and people all over the planet within just hours time. While it might not seem so amazing as you’re standing in security lines in some of […]

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Cessna Citation X+ Gets FAA Green Light

The FAA cleared the way for deliveries of the ultra-fast Cessna Citation X+ this week after it granted certification to the speedy midsize bizjet. With a top speed of Mach 0.935 (536 ktas), the Citation X+ has now displaced the Gulfstream G650 — which has a max speed of Mach 0.925 — as the world’s […]

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Video: Breathtaking Backcountry Flying

Need a quick pick-me-up to carry you through the rest of the work week? This video will likely do the trick. Shot by a couple of pilots flying over the Judith River in beautiful north-central Montana, the footage captures a one-of-a-kind flying experience over some of America’s most breathtaking terrain. We only wish we could […]

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Audio: ATC Joke Causes Boeing 777 to Abort Landing

An air traffic controller’s attempt at humor has caught the attention of the national media as well as the FAA after his joke forced a Delta 777 on approach to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to go around. Delta Flight 630, en route from Detroit, was flying at just over 1,000 feet in Atlanta airspace after […]

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Cessna 182 Pilot Jumps Out of Damaged Plane at 2,000 Feet

A 21-year-old pilot who works for a skydiving company was forced to make a skydiving jump of his own — his first ever — to bail out of his Cessna 182 after a previous jumper damaged the aircraft in flight. Southern Illinois University student Shawn Kinmartin was flying south of St. Louis at 11,500 feet […]

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Video: The Crash that Could Have Killed Neil Armstrong

Reddit user Theodore Funkenstein recently released stabilized video footage of the 1968 aircraft crash that forced Neil Armstrong to bail out at low altitude, allowing a one-of-a-kind look at an event that nearly took the life of the world’s most well known astronaut. A little more than a year before his giant leap for mankind, […]

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