Cockpit video captures couple’s terrifying mid-air drama as their plane’s flight controls jam

Mayday! Cockpit video captures couple’s terrifying mid-air drama as their plane’s flight controls jam and husband has to make an emergency landing Four-seater plane bounces off grassy verges before coming to a screeching halt It touches down in Membury airfield, Berkshire, 50 miles from destination  Pilot Steve Le Van’s wife exclaims: ‘Where are we? What … Read more

Flight controls used by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the Moon go up for auction

Flight controls used by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11 mission to the Moon expected to fetch up to £160,000 each at auction Two rotational hand controls and one translation hand control are in the sale They look like joysticks from a game console and also have trigger buttons NASA audit report found … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: As Left now controls every lever of power, we face nothing less than regime change

What we now face is regime change. That is why these strange crowds have begun to gather round ancient and forgotten monuments, demanding their removal and destruction.  They do not know what they want, or understand what they are destroying. But that no longer matters. They think their moment has come, and they may well be … Read more

Google may kill off hand-gestured controls in the Pixel 5 by removing a motion-sensing radar chip

Google may kill off hand-gestured controls in its upcoming Pixel phone by removing the device’s motion-sensing radar chip Google may remove one of its biggest features in the Pixel 4 Sources tell 9to5Google that the company may do away with hand gestures The move would nix Google’s motion-sensing radar chip It could reduce cost and … Read more

Germany says it will end border controls with France, Switzerland and Austria from June 15

Germany will open its borders with France, Switzerland and Austria from June 15 after it imposed restrictions two months ago to stop the spread of coronavirus. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said business trips and family visits across its French, Austrian and Swiss frontiers would begin from Friday, with random spot checks in place, before total … Read more

Germany says it will end border controls with France, Switzerland and Austria from June 15

Germany will open its borders with France, Switzerland and Austria from June 15 after it imposed restrictions two months ago to stop the spread of coronavirus. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said business trips and family visits across its French, Austrian and Swiss frontiers would begin from Friday, with random spot checks in place. In addition … Read more

Taking the controls in a British Airways A350 simulator at BA’s Flight Training Centre near Heathrow

Gulp. Captain Mike Blythe, British Airways Flight Technical and Training Manager for the Airbus A380 and A350 is sitting next to me. ‘Take a deep breath,’ he says. Why? Because I’m about to take a British Airways Airbus A350 down one of London Heathrow’s runways and take-off for the very first time. Ted prepares to … Read more