Two pilots belly land twin-engine plane in Winnipeg

Two female pilots, 25 and 26, have to belly land their plane carrying 10 passengers in Winnipeg due to a problem with landing gear deployment. Nice job, ladies!

Belly Landing Story

This one has picture:

Aviation Herald Report

It's good to see competence in pilots. The task is probably easier in a smaller plane, vs. Sullenberger's jet, but still a daunting one. Put her down without gear on a landing strip and hope to keep the fuselage in one piece. The fact that no one was more than a bit shaken up is a tribute to some great flying.

The DH-2 Beaver Bush Plane

An interesting article about the DH-2 Beaver Bush plane. Read all the pages of user comments - some from people who flew the planes in the articles, trained with them, and most from ex-Beaver or Otter pilots.


DH-2 Beaver

There's also a link on one of the pages to a whole site devoted to the Beaver.

The bush plane is something Canada did and did well. It has endured and continued to serve for a long, long time. It was a big part of opening up the Canadian frontiers, which at one point were most of Canada.

I also commend to you Wheels, Skis and Floats by Ted Burton and Robert Grant. If you want a view into the early days of Canadian Aviation and into the challenges and the amazing planes and men that helped tie Canada together, this is a wonderful book.

A380 Cockpit Tour

The best use of Flash I've seen yet. A tour of the new Airbus 380 cockpit.

Cockpit

You can pan up, down, move around with your mouse, zoom in and out with the mousewheel, etc.