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Air Taxi Prototype Crash at Cotswold Airport

Fear of Landing

They already have orders for up to 1,000 aircraft, with customers including American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and AirAsia. Once stable in ground effect, the pilot shut down EPU1 (left-side outboard) to simulate the performance in the case of an engine failure. A vertical descent rate of 19.5

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What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack

Air Facts

An incomplete summary description of FASF is whether the airplane made it out of ground effect. This meant that I could land normally on the runway, not overshoot, and did not need to be concerned with the airliners on the crossing runway. That phenomenon is best named Failure to Achieve Sustained Flight (FASF).