Practical Aero Spotlight: John Norton and C-17 Operational Test and Evaluation
In the April/May 2024 edition of ASME’s Mechanical Engineering, Lee Langston, a frequent contributing author, wrote an article1…
Show Students You Care
PAI Teaching Associate Dr Aaron Byerley often cites this quote attributed to Theodore Roosevelt “Students don’t care how…
Bill Heiser Memoriam
It is not circumstantial, and indeed entirely fitting, that I find myself writing another one of these for…
Jack Mattingly Memoriam
Colleague, mentor, role model, and friend to Practical Aero, and more importantly, countless others, Jack D. Mattingly passed…
PW4077 Failure on 777
Commercial aviation has a remarkable safety record. The recent engine mishap involving UA328 out of Denver on Feb….