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MWH simply lacks the draw of a bustling city nearby and hundreds of hotel rooms. Other than that…lived in Othello for nearly 12 years and it was wonderful to see JAL pilots do short patterns at MWH in B747s.

How many can remember that the first time you really found out about Reno was when it was the Wide World of Sports TV show?

We already have too many eyes not looking outside the cockpit.

Honestly if you can’t hit a defenseless balloon….in clear daylight. Video footage is from a home, not a NASA camera.

Ok, send one A10 with a Gattling gun and a few rounds or shot a half million dollar missile? Footage doesn’t look like 60K altitude, although size can make a difference I suppose. A10 service ceiling 45K.

Terrible idea for safety to remove private airfields.

Just a reminder to everyone, some of us do this all the time with non-engine driven electrical systems. So eyeballs out.

Devotion is pretty close to the emotional center, but there are some dramatic license issues. The Jesse's wife didn't meet Hudner until the Medal of Honor ceremony, Jesse didn't attack the bridge single handily. But a lot of the flying scenes are real and were filmed over the Washington...

"The Yakima incident still scares the hell out of me" I think you might be thinking of the cowboy flying culture that created the Airway Heights/ Spokane Fairchild USAF base crash with the B-52? It's been written about, if you want to see a chain of events that created the crash. The tragic...

It’s offline again 12/4/20022, the poor Beechcraft on the cliff has been there for a couple weeks!

Just commenting on the video that was produced and thread drift. I walk away with it's either in the organization of display or in the hands of P63/B17. The reported/planned barbell flight pattern and the assigned altitudes just look off to me. Way too much happening when a simple oval would...

The discussion is missing the real issue in the preflight briefing by the AirBoss, if it's true about what was said on the briefing recording. No vertical separation planned. No flight path briefing should be done without ground references. And IF there was a radio command to shift the...

Fire pretty consumed the whole cabin area, so any memory cards are probably melted. Very tragic for a smaller company, that is a big loss in staff and knowledge. So the focus now shifts to Cessna or what happened to the plane with the baggage pod as installed. The 208B has a good track...

Update, company reports the new belly pod was not installed, flight crew was testing - Sunday, Nov 20 from the Seattle Times: A small airplane that crashed in Snohomish County on Friday, killing all four people aboard, was on a test flight when it broke apart midair and plunged to the...

Leading local theory is some sort of breakup perhaps in belly pod they were testing, which struck the stab and then that failed, leading to the wing failure in the dive that followed. There were four fatalities in the crash, which is another odd thing for a flight test. There is a company that...

It’s my primary radio in my classic taildragger. Plenty of squelch to work with unshielded ignition, more than enough range with external antenna and works well with a power bank battery pack. Good buy and it does what it says it does.

To the post above: The B17 was at the same altitude as the P63, so it would be against the sky, if the nose, belly and wing weren't blocking the plane. Given that the bank angle never changed, a good chance is that the P63 wasn't aware of the B17 up to the point of impact. It makes a point...

"I'm thinking that by the time he saw the B-17 it was too late to do anything but to tighten the turn" The video shows no change in the bank angle as the P-63 approached the B-17. It's constant radius until impact, so I'm still of the opinion he was looking for the other planes he was...

Word on one news report was that the airboss told the P63 to go ahead and "take the lead" and pass the B17. Correct call in retrospect would be to knock it off. Not verified. Still looks like a P63 focused on the other fighters and trying to regroup, not aware of the B17 below and to the...

Blind spot under the nose and wings, fixated on rejoining the fighters ahead after going too wide in a turn and losing the trail formation, a second or two loss of situational awareness. Seems pretty clear. The AirBoss briefing on the altitude assignments in the pattern will be interesting...