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Aircraft & Technology
At 9g a pilot’s head weighs 50 kg and the blood drains from their brain in seconds. Grey-out, tunnel vision, G-LOC: what happens inside the body during a hard pull, why the Blue Angels fly without g-suits, and the breathing trick that keeps fighter pilots awake.
Cockpit & Operations
Why the flight deck says niner instead of nine, what mayday and pan-pan actually mean, and what the cabin announcements are really telling the crew.
Pilot Careers
The median is $148,080. Trainees start at $22.61 an hour, you must be under 31 to apply, and you must retire at 56. What the salary pages leave out.
Aviation News
The viral clip of a 737’s cabin ceiling falling on screaming passengers looks like a plane coming apart. It wasn’t. What the video actually shows, why a tyre started it, and why a 30-year-old jet that can’t buy parts was still flying.
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Airline pilots at night are not seeing the way passengers imagine. What they are reading is a standard pattern of lights, and the FAA guidance is largely a list of reasons not to trust your eyes.

