Here is what a hair-raising situation sounds like. The FAA has released tapes of the conversations between air traffic controllers and the private pilot who successfully landed a twin-engine King Air in Florida recently after the pilot died at the controls. This tape covers the first 14 minutes of radio calls.  Here it ...

This was recently passed on to me. It is supposedly recently declassified footage of the F-35 in VSTOL takeoff and landing modes.

The link below takes you to an audio/video clip showing the ATC radar screen readout and the radio exchange that happened when a private pilot minding his own business got buzzed by an F-16 pilot. The private pilot is obviously hopping mad. He claims the F-16 came within 10 feet of him and did so on purpose. The clip, from AVwebBIZ, goes on to say ...

The folks at Avweb produced an interesting video about the break up of an F-15 during a training flight. The explanation of what went wrong and the problem is quite illuminating.   (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1037-full.html#196998)

The folks at avweb did a good job looking up the origins of this photo and turning it into an interesting video. It is a good analysis of how aerobatic accidents can happen.      (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1028-full.html#196908) When we first saw the photo of Capt. Chris Stricklin's ejection from a doomed ...