Solent Flight Ltd

Question of the day:

Why do we have a NO shorts rule when flying?

Question of the day:

By how much will your take off roll be increased by the 35 degree heat the week?

Question of the day:

As part of your flight planning, where could you find the cloud cover/cloud base in the area you want to fly?

Question of the day:

Aircraft log books must be kept for a period after the aircraft (or its equipment) have been destroyed or permanently withdrawn from use. This period is?

a) 3 Years
b) 1 Year
c) 2 Years
d) 18 Months
e) 5 Years

Question of the day:

One for the new students: Up to approx 6,000 feet the SALR cools at

a) A variable rate
b) 1.5 Degrees Celsius per 1000 Feet
c) 3 Degrees Celsius per 1000 feet

A simple flip changes everything in aerodynamics!

How similar an airplane wing and an F1 car wing look, yet they do opposite things?
Both use the same aerofoil shape, but while airplanes generate lift, racing cars invert it to produce downforce for better grip.

This downforce helps racing cars corner faster without losing traction.

It’s fascinating how the same principle of fluid dynamics powers both flight and speed on the track.

Question of the day:

What is the difference between "NSC" and "NCD"?

Question of the day:

When landing at LU on either runway you have the threshold marker boards, after them you have 3 cones on each side of the runway, what are these for and what MUST your actions be?

On May 1, 2003, aviation and presidential history intersected in a way never seen before, and never repeated since. A Lockheed S-3B Viking launched from Naval Air Station North Island carrying an extraordinary passenger: President George W. Bush.

Under U.S. Navy tradition, any Navy aircraft transporting the President receives the callsign "Navy One." In more than 200 years of naval history, only one aircraft has ever carried that designation, the S-3B Viking, BuNo 159387, of the "Blue Wolves" from Sea Control Squadron 35 (VS-35).

Piloted by Commander John "Skip" Lussier and Lieutenant Ryan "Wilson" Phillips, the Viking made a flawless arrested landing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast. With the aircraft's tailhook catching the carrier's arresting wire, President Bush became the first sitting U.S. President to arrive aboard an aircraft carrier in a fixed-wing aircraft via carrier landing.

A former Air National Guard pilot himself, Bush reportedly wished to experience a carrier landing similar to those once performed by his father, President George H.W. Bush, a decorated Navy aviator during World War II.

The historic aircraft's service would soon come to an end. Just over two months later, on July 17, 2003, the S-3B Viking that made history as the one and only "Navy One" was retired and transferred to the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida, where it remains preserved as a reminder of this unique chapter in American aviation history.