Flying the Avro 504 The Avro 504 was the main primary training aircraft for the Royal Air Force (and initially the Royal Flying Corps) from 1915 until 1927. Many of these aircraft also found...
The International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA) and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI ) joined together at the 36th ICAO Assembly to advocate more reasonable language proficiency standards for pilots operating...
Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2002 on common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Aviation Safety Agency (Text with...
In the hangar, the SE5A looks just great. A squat biplane with ailerons on each wing, She’s Tiger Moth size with 200 HP up front and she’s still cleared for aerobatic flight. One can’t...
I’m strapped in and ready, parked at the end of the duty runway. The sky around Old Warden is clear, the airfield closed to all other traffic. I’ve checked the cockpit, the switches are...
Somehow, I always knew that one day I would fly a Spitfire. Coincidentally, when that eventful day arrived it happened to be the anniversary of my first solo some 22 years previously. It had...
The Collections Deperdussin is unique even amongst the Collections aircraft in that it is the only machine without any cockpit instrumentation whatsoever. If that were not enough, the pilot also has to contend with...
Westland Lysander Over the past few years I’ve said some quite scathing things about the Westland Lysander. I know I’ve offended one or two good people, and to them I apologise. To offend was...
Flying Shuttleworth aircraft is challenging and different. In order to illustrate some of the differing flying techniques necessary to pilot the Collection’s aircraft, lets look at the history and specific handling qualities of three...
Aviation has its fair share of characters, both human and mechanical. It is the mechanical ones, the aeroplanes, that are particularly fascinating, because of the surprisingly personal characteristics possessed by some individual aircraft within...