non-military aviation
Landing at Cagliari Elmas – video
The following video, taken from seat 8F of the Airbus 320 EI-DSH flying from Rome Fiumicino to Cagliari airport as AP 5494, shows the final phase of the approach to RWY 32 in Elmas.
Airbus 320
Aviation
Nose wheel steering problem?
When Giovanni Maduli sent me the pictures he took at Pratica di Mare on Feb 13 (that you can find here: http://cencio4.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/pratica-di-mare-130209/), he suggested me to look at the nose landing gear of the HH-3F. […]
Aviation
US Air 1549 vs Tuninter 1153: two differing ending ditchings
Analysing the recent US1549 ditching in the Hudson River (http://cencio4.wordpress.com/tag/awe1549/), I explained that the success in the difficult splash down was the result of a perfect maneuver and luck. Even if I still believe that […]
Aviation
US Air 1549 update
During the last few days many new details surfaced about the last 6 minutes (more or less) of US Air 1549 flight that ended with a successful textbook ditching of an Airbus 320 in the […]
Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
Is spotting at Rome Fiumicino dangerous?
On Jan 18, I went to Fiumicino to watch some aircraft departing from RWY 25. After following the story of the US Air 1549 that performed a successful ditching in the Hudson river shortly after […]