Very interesting. I wasn’t aware of their other activities.
A fully extended windsock at a right angle to the runway would be at least 15 knot crosswind.
An R44 crash offshore in Miami Beach. Three people onboard. Pilot is ‘doing OK’, and the passengers have broken backs.
Is this power mismanagement? It didn’t look like much in the way of a flare.
Hard to tell. It may have been a power failure, and the pilot executed the autorotation incorrectly. If so, he may have been trying to get as close to the beach as possible, and at the same time avoid any people on the ground (or in the water). You can see he tried to flare at the end.
Not General Aviation, but…
Typical news story that can’t be bothered to publish the right picture. That’s a 124 in the picture and it’s written right on the body of the plane.
I’ve been in the cockpit of a 124. it’s like a bowling alley… I think you could use the engineer’s desk as a bunk.
NOTAM 2/9510 says, in part:
They’re discussing this over at
https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/t4smet/notam_29510_and_russianamericans/
They are specifically wondering if Russian citizens legally in the United States are grounded from general aviation activities. The discussion is focusing on being a CFI or a student if you are a Russian citizen (ETA: Or even simply being a passenger on a regular scheduled commercial domestic airline flight).
I happen to know one such person (a CFI / ASEL in the S. F. area), who just yesterday had occasion to send me an e-mail including this comment:
There’s a slim chance that ban-all-russians NOTAM precludes me from teaching, I’ll let you know if that frees my weekend up!
To whomever it may interest, the full text of NOTAM 2/9510 is here (pdf, 1 page long).
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Why on earth didn’t they relocate the plane to a safer place? It’s not like the impending war was a surprise to anyone.
That sucks.
It was there for engine work. They would have to secure it for ferrying on less engines. Doable but it takes time.
The Russians portrayed it as a Ukrainian plane but it was built to haul the Soviet Space Shuttle. They just crapped on their own history…
There’s still another 225 around (partially completed). Not sure where it’s located.
Also, was that an unexploded artillery shell shell in the video?
A friend took me flying with him once in his Flight Design airplane, a CTSW. (Stands for Composite Technology, Short Wing I think). It’s a strange-looking cute little two-seat airplane. The doors are hinged at the top, so they open like a gull-wing. Pic from Wikipedia page:
ETA: Wiki says it’s a German company, but with construction facility in Ukraine.
Engine failure video very nice dead stick landing IMHO
Video: Cessna 205 catastrophic engine failure — General Aviation News
Brian
After looking at the damage he’s lucky the engine didn’t depart the plane. The landing was a little too good. Not much room for error. I hope he keeps some of the parts for hangar wall decorations.
“Gullwing” means something else for airplanes.
