Cockpit Runway Tarmac 
Plane and Pilot
DECEMBER 30, 2024
The ramp is empty, so I ask if hed like to taxi us to the departure end of the runway. The main road between the houses is the old runway. I take the controls right before turning onto the base leg and manage to make soft contact with the runway without excessive swerving during the rollout. I just want to take this all in.
Aerotime
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
As the Boeing 707 made its way down the runway, though, FBI agents and police officers shot out the tires, forcing the jet to stop and leaving the father and son team to face jail time. His body was thrown down onto the tarmac below. The passengers began to prepare for a crash landing with life jackets on.
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Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 15, 2024
A few feet behind him, Captain Gerald Dobberfuhl, an experienced reconnaissance officer, settled into the rear cockpit of their camera-equipped RF-4C Phantom fighter. millimeter round blasted a hole through the front-cockpit canopy. Forward visibility from the RF-4C’s rear cockpit was blocked by an instrument panel and electronic gear.
Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Cactus Garden allows aviation geeks to view some aircraft at the tarmac. I managed to take a little peek of the cockpit when it was opened. We touched down on this single runway airport ahead of schedule. This is the viewing gallery at Terminal 1. This is where my flight was departing. There it is, my ride to Hat Yai!
Fear of Landing
MAY 10, 2024
I’m away from the cockpit this week, but things keep happening whether I’m here or not, so I’ve put together a roundup of recent news, especially the ever-developing Boeing situation, with an impressive triplet of bad news for the company on the same single Wednesday of this week.
ABEAM
JULY 5, 2024
In the meanwhile we were slowly but surely cooking on the 39° hot tarmac while we did not want to drink too much as that might lead to having to find toilet solutions in the next leg of the flights … Two nice fuel guys offered us fresh cold water and we nevertheless took it. A follow-me car brough us to our stands: almost 8 hours of flight.
Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure
JANUARY 22, 2024
Currently the airport has 2 terminals, the main and the satallite terminal and uses 2 runways, runway 03L/21R and 03R/21R. The view of the tarmac. Rolling down the runway in this beautiful weather. We are on final approach on runway 34 at SKG. There are monitor screens (touchscreen) to surf the internet.
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