NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, whose husband Bob Behnken was aboard SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon mission to ISS, will pilot spacecraft’s second launch next spring NASA announced on Tuesday that Megan McArthur will pilot mission in spring She is wife of Bob Behnken, joint ops commander of first Crew Dragon mission Astronaut Shane Kimbrough will command … Read more
Rodeo dive! Daredevil wingsuit pilot rides on her stunt partner’s back as they leap from a plane at 13,000ft Alessio Spina and Giulia Calcaterraglide toward the ground in Sardinia, Italy Wingsuit professional Alessio leaps from plane and Giulia straddles his back Giulia is an extreme sports fanatic and has been skydiving for three years By … Read more
Ex-RAF pilot, 80, crashes his hand built replica WWII Focke Wulf 190 into a field after mistaking a tractor track for the grass runway Barry Conway, 80, was attempting to land his replica Focke Wulf 190 in a field The hand built aircraft flipped over after hitting a rut on caused by a tractor A … Read more
A British pilot who was Vietnam’s most critical Covid-19 patient was discharged from a hospital on Saturday and will now return home to Scotland. Stephen Cameron, 42, was taken by ambulance from Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City to the city’s airport. He was scheduled to take a flight to Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, … Read more
Schoolgirl pilot dies as she crashes small aircraft the day before her 17th birthday and just days after posing with her proud parents following her first solo flight in South Africa Anika de Beer had flown solo for the first time just days before tragic crash She is believed to have stalled a small aircraft … Read more
A horrific seaplane crash that killed a British business tycoon and his family was likely caused by the pilot choking on carbon monoxide, an inquiry has found. Richard Cousins, his fiance Emma Bowden and their children died when their DHC-2 Beaver nosedived into Jerusalem Bay on the Hawkesbury River on New Year’s Eve in 2017. Mr … Read more
Pictured: Recently married pilot who died when US Air Force F-15C fighter jet crashed in the North Sea 74 miles off the Yorkshire coast as wife pays tribute to her ‘absolute best friend’ The dead pilot who crashed into North Sea has been named 1st Lt Kenneth Allen Lt Allen’s F15C Eagle crashed at around … Read more
Organisation set up to look at ways of keeping cash on the High Street set to reveal the communities it has selected to pilot new initiatives designed to boost consumer access to cash By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 13 June 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 13 June 2020 An organisation … Read more
These are the first images of the smiling British pilot who has woken from a coma after defeating COVID-19 when he was in a critical condition in Vietnam. The 43-year-old Vietnam Airlines pilot, known as Patient 91, is now reportedly fully conscious, smiling and talking to doctors at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh … Read more
Pilot and passenger are saved by their plane’s emergency parachute and plucked alive from the water after crashing into the sea near Southampton Coastguard said pair were found by nearby vessel at Calshot Spit, Southampton The footage shows a large parachute attached to the back of the aircraft An emergency responder can be heard telling onlookers … Read more