Student pilots often over-control the aircraft during takeoff and landing by using excessive force and two hands on the yoke/stick; instead, a gentle touch and one hand on the yoke/stick (the other on ...
The NTSB has opened the accident docket for the Reno Air Race crash, indicating that a failed trim tab on the highly modified P-51 *Galloping Ghost* was the likely cause. A recent aircraft performance ...
(Updated at 12:58 p.m.) LAS VEGAS – A plane that crashed into spectators at an air race in Reno last year bore modifications that weakened its structure and showed evidence that it was flown beyond ...
On September 16, 2011, during the National Championship Air Races, that take place each year since 1964 at the Reno Stead Airport, near Reno, Nevada, a P-51D Mustang, piloted by Jimmy Leeward, crashed ...
A plane that crashed into spectators at an air race in Reno last year bore modifications that weakened its structure and showed evidence that it was flown beyond its limits, investigators said Monday.