One Dakota, original Berlin Airlift!, went to Berlin and suffered some engine failure and crash landing at Schönefeld. It sits in a hangar and waits to be merged with a second a/c (AA) that is planned to be used as donor. Not aware of any current progress.
It’s no secret and has never been. He even did media events for years with him in the cockpit. Still very cool that he is a pilot. Nice gentleman obviously.
Theres is a lot of room between banning hobbyists with sometimes limited flying standards (or flying displays while being too heavy ladden with fuel for all the way back to home) and no display at all or just pattern work.
Don’t aim your aircraft at the audience. Keep a certain safety altitude. Fly within tight limits. Show what you will do beforehand to the organizers.
On january 9th the Airbus flight test department had A350 MSN1 overfly Mr. Turcat’s grave near Aix as a special gesture of respect and honour. After several low and slow passes the A350 special flight returned to Toulouse.
The current A-2s are now made of smaller leather parts. I think the back is now a triple construction instead of a double one as before. Pilot sizes tend to become bigger and big sized skins of leather are getting more expensive.
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