Flew past the North Cape today…
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That looks gorgeous, hostile, and barren all at the same time!
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That’s exactly the description of an ex-girlfriend of mine! 
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The North Cape is probably the most boring part of Norway.
If it didn’t have the special importance of being the northernmost part of Europe nobody would ever go there. 
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Well, yes and no. The cape is of course the reason tourists go there, in the first place. But the locals have become increasingly better at taking care of the tourists and are now offering a lot of experiences ranging from RHIB tours, deep sea fishing, crab fishing, helicopter tours, cycling safaris…
There are a lot of reeeally big ships arriving, each summer. The influx of tourists and their money, have attracted a lot of competent service industry experts, from all over the world. There’s a french bakery there now. 
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If there’s a road there’s bound to be a french baker thinking it would be a great place to be! 
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Crashes JU-52 in swiss mountains. Not much info so far, press conference scheduled in a few hours.
Just a public service reminder to all of you line pilots out there to check and double check the flux capacitors on your aircraft during the preflight… And I’m dreading the coming flux capacitor emergency AD. This is gonna get expensive for us boys!
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That is awesome. You can just imagine someone saying that off-hand as a joke to that reporter.
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I must say that “Sum Ting Wong/Wee Tu Lo/Wat De Fuk” will remain the all-time greatest news punk. But that was pretty good!
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The South African Flying Lions aerobatic team.. https://youtu.be/dBi_KSbHnCA
WoW, I have never seen this done before… madness HIGH RISK madness… but exciting.
They know their plane every feel and touch! 
I believe there’s already an EASA Directive for that!
Brexit will fix that. And the CAA will be once again be happy to continue to employ the dark figure whose bony hands hold the scythe whose tip sits longingly on the jugular of GA.
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Out of the five I want the diamond dart that would be cool for some weekend fun and demo’s, a dream of course.
The more affordable options would be
Don’t get the one on the bottom! I’ve seen enough Sonex accidents to know I wouldn’t give a nickel for one.
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What’s wrong with them?
I have been looking leisurely at their jet…
Not sure but they appear to have a rather high accident rate if you do a cursory google search. Higher then relatable homebuild aircraft.
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The sub-sonex looks neat. I know nothing about it. My friend Michael had two Sonex designs—both which he built. I watched him put the first, a waiex, on its nose. Fortunately It didn’t quite make it all the way over. His current, a One-x, has been nothing but trouble. That VW deviative that serves as an engine has had continuous fuel- and oil-delivery issues. Plus overheating. After a year it looks like he has the engine sorted. It has a non-castering tailwheel and no differential braking. I watched him leave the runway on a botched aborted takeoff. Fortunately he swerved between the lights. No damage but it looked ugly. They are brilliantly simple but obviously cheap. Compare it to the much harder to build, and more expensive RV. The RV is uber-designed in ever respect. It is fast, strong, aerobatic and a terrific short-field performer. 10000 of them are flying. Well 10000 have been built. The two values are different. The only fault with the airplane is that many of its fans fancy themselves formation pilots. So they run into one another on occasion.
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Wow! 76,100 Feet. And I was proud of my 17600ish feet…
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Justifiably so. You probably weren’t towed to 12000 feet!
Very cool indeed. They will eventually get to FL1000 but are taking progress methodically.
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