AF447 pilot: 'Damn it, we're going to crash'

New extracts from the cockpit voice recorder reveal that three seconds before impact, one of the crew exclaimed: "Damn it, we're going to crash, this can't be true!" (www.cnn.com) 更多...

JetBlue Flight Forced to Land After Deranged Captain Screamed ‘There’s a Bomb On Board!’

JetBlue Flight 191 had to make an emergency landing today in Texas. The flight was en route to Las Vegas from New York's JFK when a man—allegedly the flight's captain—got out of the restroom "foaming at the mouth" and screaming. (gizmodo.com) 更多...

Passenger Snaps Photo of Fuel Pouring Out of a Dreamliner's Wing

If Boeing was looking to 2014 as a fresh start for their constantly malfunctioning Dreamliner, that particular dream is almost certainly crushed by now. In addition to one of the plane's batteries malfunctioning (again) just a few days ago, a Norweigan's Airlines flight was cancelled yesterday after a passenger noticed that fuel was pouring from a valve on the plane's wing. (gizmodo.com) 更多...

Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws

The most expensive weapons program in U.S. history is about to get a lot pricier.... (gizmodo.com) 更多...

Recordings Reveal Final Moments Of Air France 447

PARIS, France -- French investigators say flight recorders from an Air France plane that crashed nearly two years ago show that the captain only arrived in the cockpit after the plane had begun its fateful 3 1/2-minute descent. This article contains full details of the descent. (www.kirotv.com) 更多...

How To Land a Plane That’s Missing Half a Wing

We're all familiar with the term "autopilot," yes? Think of Adaptive Control as a supermegacharged version of that. It's part of what they call Intelligent Avionics at NASA Ames, and it's capable of identifying a problem and correcting for it in a matter of milliseconds—before the pilot even knows something is wrong. As airplanes get more complex, both mechanically and electronically, there's more that can potentially go awry. Adaptive Control is designed to… (gizmodo.com) 更多...

Horrifying Video Shows the Crash of a 168-Passenger Caspian Airlines Flight in 1999

There are no words to describe the horror in this video, which shows the crash of a Caspian Airlines airliner with 168 people on board. The crash happened on July 15, 2009, but this is the first time the video has been published. The aircraft was a Tupolev Tu-154M flying from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia. The accident happened at 11:33AM local time, 16 minutes before the crash. One of the engines caught fire just before the plane fell down uncontrollably, destroying a large area on the… (gizmodo.com) 更多...

F-35 Shot With Red Epic Camera Is Your Airplane Porn of the Week

Ivan Agerton, at Deep Space Reconnaissance/Special Ops, sent us this incredibly crisp footage of the F-35 shot for Lockheed Martin using a Red Epic camera and a Canon zoom. (gizmodo.com) 更多...

U2 Spy Plane - Cockpit View At 70,000 Feet

Very cool to see from a pilots perspective. From take off to landing (www.youtube.com) 更多...

This is the amazing Lockheed Martin SR-72—the space Blackbird

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has already begun development on the high altitude SR-72, which will fly at Mach 6—twice the speed of the SR-71—and will be capable of carrying weapons. Unlike the Blackbird, the SR-72 is an armed platform that will be capable of attacking from the edge of space. (sploid.gizmodo.com) 更多...