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Spilled Coffee On The Controls Panel Forces Plane With 337 On board To Divert Over Atlantic

Spilled Coffee On The Controls Panel Forces Plane With 337 On board To Divert Over Atlantic

A passenger aircraft with 337 people on board was forced to divert in February after the pilot spilled coffee on the controls panel, UK investigators say. The Airbus A330-243 from Frankfurt, Germany, to Cancun, Mexico, had to land in Shannon, Ireland, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) reports. The hot coffee …

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Women Hurricane Hunters: First all-female crew flies into Hurricane Dorian on NOAA recon mission

Women Hurricane Hunters: First all-female crew flies into Hurricane Dorian on NOAA recon mission

As Hurricane Dorian approaches the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sent a crew to perform recon on the storm. It’s the first time the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has put together an all-female crew for a mission like this one, the organization says. The all-female pilot …

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Raytheon unveils EA-18G Growler new high-capacity and high-power airborne electronic attack weapon system

Raytheon unveils EA-18G Growler new high-capacity and high-power airborne electronic attack weapon system

U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has confirmed that the first Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band Engineering Development Model pod arrived at Naval Air Station Patuxent River after a trek across America late July to begin various verification and test procedures in preparation for the second pod delivery early fall. …

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Luftwaffe F-104 Starfighter Landing On Autobahn A 29 And Ending Nose-down On Grass

Luftwaffe F-104 Starfighter Landing On Autobahn A 29 And Ending Nose-down On Grass

The Cold War Footage below, filmed in March 1984, during exercise “Highway ’84”, is particularly interesting as it shows an aircraft rarely seen operating from public roads: an F-104G Starfighter of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) in “heavy” (tip + pylon tanks) configuration. The video shows the F-104G “23+30”, belonging …

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