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The actions of Ardmore Flying School's new owners have shocked New Zealand's pilots association.

Last Flight of the Silver Stars Last Flight of the Silver Stars By Jim Bates On a crisp, but CAVU, Friday morning in December the last two working Canadair Silver Stars in the United States conducted their final “official” flight before retirement.  (The National Research Council Canada (NRC) still operates Canadair built T-33 C-FSKH for various flight test programs.)  The flight, done to commemorate the Silver Star’s long careers with Boeing, departed Boeing Field on December 4, 2020, ...

Two of Poland’s best-loved cartoon characters, Kajko i Kokosz, are getting their own show. Animation lovers will soon get a new treat courtesy of Netflix, when the adaptation of Janusz Christa’s classic comic book Kajko i Kokosz is released some time next year. The comics, published between 1972 and 1991, star the titular two Slavic warriors and depict their medieval battles against dragons, witches, and evil knights. Often compared with Asterix and Obelix, Kajko i Kokosz stories always, ...

Life, havent you? >> thats right. >> his service to his country began in 1951. >> i used to say i wanted to fly airplanes. you dont do that except in the military. >> over the course of his 29 year career with the united states air force, johnson did a whole lot more than just fly air planes. after 62 combat missions in korea, he helped the airport trust the effects of nuclear explosion on planes by flying right into them. >> i flew through an air burst. no big deal. >> johnson was selected to f...

>> guess what you? you might be chosen to be the new head of the faa. time for our monumental hour. our favorite part of the show, a person who might be deserving of more recognition. >> in this case, a pilot. >> today, aviation pioneer bessie coleman, worlds first civilian licensed african-american pilot. in 1920, she taught herself french and went to paris to learn how to fly. there is no u.s. flight school would take her. >> crazy. >> after coming along, staging the first public flight by an ...

In germany at the family home. >> reporter: here we are, a day after the police arrived to search the family home behind me. you see sounded by media. as the focus has shifted away from how this could have happened and on to why. why this young man apparently normal and happy young man realizing his dream would do such a thing. deliberately crashing the plane and killing all of the people. the family here described as a nice family and good family engaged in the local community. lubitz himself, ...

Rosie, what do we know? >> as you can see, global media gathered outside what until last week until the last few days was just a normal home in germany. and today, the focus of global scrutiny as people search for answers as to why this young man who grew up here andreas lubitz grew up here with his parents, why he would do such a thing. the local community in shock as you say. they cannot understand it. people that knew him by all accounts described him as a normal young man, polite friendly. h...

Hometown where we hear he was quiet, well-liked seemingly a normal child growing up. and then you have this period where he goes to the flying school which is close to where he lived. and there they say he was a man who was totally dedicated to his gliding and his flying. and he was absolutely delighted when he was able to finally achieve his dream job of becoming an airline pilot. in the middle of that wolf you get this training period where we know that he went to lufthansas training academy i...

Heading, altitudes, et cetera, so that there is some degree of situational awareness when an airplane is beyond radar coverage. when you get into the area theyre talking about, there arent even really too many jet routes. so the chance of being able to put an airplane down out there somewhere, if thats your intent and have it disappear completely is pretty good. >> so you know these routes well then. what do these routes tell you that they may have taken, given that pivot point may have occurred...

Some of the first images broadcast of the tsunami came from here. the water, barreling ashore and sweeping across sendai airport friday, engulfing runways and battering the air bridges. this is what it looked like on the ground today. this is the parking lot of the sendai flying school. now amid the wrecked cars sits this training aircraft, dumped here by the wave, swept from the hangers over the back there. >> when we return, the nuclear crisis in japan and what it will take to avoid a meltdown...