Low pass

Barnstorming

Landing at the world's most dangerous airport

Crosswind landing, expert level

B777 takeoff - LA at Sunset

HondaJet

Big skies in Christchurch

Christchurch delivers on the sunset front

(C/o RGK)

Night landing in Nice

Slick.

Why the Concorde failed

A new take on the Pitt Maneuver

Northern Lights from above

Some plane geekery to end the week

"I finally got strikes on this guy, and he pulled the canopy and bailed. He went drifting on by me standing at attention, gave me a highball salute, and pulled the ripcord...and I thought 'boy that's pretty great'...he had black boots on and a blue flying suit...that was the first one I got."

Things aren't going so well for ISIS these days, evidently

I've thought for a while that applying the old Roman practice of damnatio memoriae would be the most appropriate way to deal with ISIS. How satisfying it would be for any "legacy" they hope to achieve to be wiped from the world's collective memory, so that nobody even remembers who they were in twenty years. All of their "martyrdom" and death would have resulted in a sum total of nothing. Not the most inspiring legacy for the disaffected youth of the future. 

They've finally lost Fallujah, and have been taking heavy losses from the air during their retreat (see below). Mosul is next on the list. 

A low-level pass of the Mach Loop

Crosswind landings in Madeira

Invercargill to Auckland

Invercargill to Auckland from FCRGK on Vimeo.

Kuala Lumpur to Langkawi

Kuala Lumpur to Langkawi from FCRGK on Vimeo.