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Video: Teenager Flies Plane Into Red Square During Cold War
Jun 2nd, 2012 at 1:00PM:
If you've seen Moscow's imposing Red Square, still regularly patrolled by Russian guards, imagine seeing a plane land there. This Guardian video shows the story of Mathias Rust who, 25 years ago, flew through the Iron Curtain on a peace mission to "build an imaginary bridge" between cultures. He was an amateur 19-year-old pilot, and managed to fly from Helsinki to Moscow without being taken down ...
Daily Pampering: Cessna Citation Ten hits the skies
Oct 25th, 2010 at 4:00PM: The need for speed isn't too far off in the latest category of Cessna's. This isn't your ordinary 10-seater.
Cessna's latest addition to their executive jets collection is the Citation Ten, which is said to be a more advanced version of the Citation X - the world's fastest certified business jet.
The Citation Ten can seat 10 people and is powered by two twin Rolls-Royce AE 3007C2 high flow ...Plane makes a crappy landing in Washington state
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:00AM: Apologies for the attempt at humor in the title of this story. Yesterday, a pilot took off from Thun Field in Washington state in his Cessna 182 when his engine failed. He made it about 150 feet into the air, tried to turn around for a "normal" emergency landing, but didn't quite make it. Instead, he hit a fence, then bounced off a storage yard filled with portable toilets. The plane did not ...
Bad economy? Quit whining and buy a private jet!
Feb 11th, 2009 at 5:00PM: Sorry about the rude title for this article, but it's the heart of the message being delivered by the poor jet makers at Cessna. See, they are fed up with the bad publicity the private jet has received in recent weeks. Fed up with the press complaining about broke automakers taking their jets to DC, fed up with the public complaining about their morally corrupt bankers flying the company jet to ...This is how to land a plane in an emergency!
Nov 26th, 2008 at 2:30PM: Here is some footage of an absolutely brilliantly performed crash emergency landing. I'm by no means an expert, nor have I ever received training on how to land a plane in an emergency, but it is pretty clear from the video clip that someone was paying attention at pilot training. The pilot was flying his Cessna 310 this afternoon when he contacted the tower reporting some issues with his nose ...
Pilot hits house, crashes plane then gets up and drives back home
Nov 17th, 2008 at 12:30PM: Here is a wacky story from the aviation world; a pilot was flying his Cessna towards an air strip at the private Brookeridge Airport near Chicago, when something went wrong. During his approach, he clipped a house, crashed into some trees and flipped his plane upon impact. Luck was clearly temporarily on his side, because he was able to walk away, get into a car and drive back home. When the ...Airline mistakenly carries passenger on outside of plane
Apr 1st, 2008 at 11:40AM: Passengers have recently complained about their seat assignments and being bumped from first class, but this story just may put everything in perspective. It seems that 26 year-old Christopher Griffin was taken for the ride of a lifetime while trying to be a good Samaritan. Griffin worked for the Big Creek Fish Company in Egegik, Alaska when a MarkAir Express Cessna 207 landed on the beach near ...
