IRAN – In a bold and symbolic protest against Iran’s ban on female pilots. A group of Iranian women’s rights activists took a striking stand at Tehran airport. By Our Correspondent: Polly Ticks Scaling the heights of defiance, they draped a colossal 60ft hijab over the cockpit of an Iran Air airliner. Challenging the restrictive […]
One person is dead after a small private aircraft crashed in Culpeper County Friday afternoon.
A little over fifty years ago, Bulova became the only watch brand to accidentally land on the moon. The Apollo 15 mission of 1971, NASA’s fourth trip to the lunar surface, didn’t have the same cultural heft as Apollo 11 or the Hollywood-ready story arc of Apollo 13. Apollo 15, however, did make its mark on history in a few important ways: it represented the first time anyone drove a car on the moon (a milestone for EVs and epic road trips); brought back a giant chunk of lunar crust dubbed “The...
Army Guardsmen in 20 states now can access drill weekend childcare after the National Guard’s most senior leader signed an agreement with public partners expanding a pilot program at a Pentagon ceremony this morning.
WILLOWS, Calif. – “Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.” That’s the message from Willows Fire Department after a pilot survived a plane crash in Northern California Sunday. According to the department, the aircraft went down in the area of County Roads 65 and D in the Kanawha jurisdiction. The plane, […]
I am often asked where I get the ideas for my Friday columns. Sometimes it begins with a story or question from a reader.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the crash of a single-engine airplane in southeastern Montana killed the pilot and a passenger
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Arizona – Effectively operating a Fourth or Fifth-Generation fighter jet requires the human body to surpass extraordinary physical and mental heights. Spending hours upon hours strapped into the confined space of a cockpit, fighter pilots endure a constant barrage of extreme G-force at dangerous altitudes over the span of their careers. Aside from the physical and mental demands of flight, pilots also juggle the requirements of a high-performance profession, including...
Pilot demand is decreasing due to aircraft groundings, delivery issues and the record-setting pace of post-pandemic hiring.
By Matt Solomon Published: May 12th, 2024
“The Father of the Bush Pilots” achieved the first non-stop transpolar intercontinental flight (Alaska to Norway) and became famous.
About three per cent of all paramedic response calls in Sarnia-Lambton are for people with no fixed address, says the manager with Lambton EMS. Yet “those known to be homeless in Lambton County account for 0.2 per cent of Lambton’s population,” said Stephen Turner. Hopes are a new program announced Wednesday helps reduce the frequency […]