Скачать или смотреть Airplane News: Foreflight 13.3, Stratolaunch Test Flight, Hydrogen Plane Crash, and Lost Luggage

This week in airplane news: New Foreflight weather features. The largest airplane in the world completes a second test flight. Hydrogen airplane damaged in a crash landing. An airline loses passengers' luggage, in flight.

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0:00 Introduction
00:38 Foreflight new features
02:18 Largest aircraft in the world test flight
04:31 Hydrogen aircraft damaged
05:28 Airline loses luggage in flight?

Foreflight 13.3 has new features including dynamic wind and temperature displays including forecasts for wind speed, direction, and temperature up to 63,000'. Also includes an enhanced weather layer of radar, enhanced satellite, color infrared, icing, cloud layers, and turbulence.

The largest aircraft in the world by wing-span completed its second test flight.
The Stratolaunch has a 385’ wingspan and achieved a peak altitude of 14000’ on its flight test.
The 3-hour flight took off from southern California and had a top speed of 199 mph.
The Stratolaunch is the carrier aircraft designed to carry a hypersonic aircraft up to 35,000 feet and release it.
Payloads of the Stratolaunch include the Talon A and the Black Ice.
The hypersonic aircraft, the Talon A is a fully reusable, autonomous, liquid rocket-powered vehicle with a top speed of Mach 6 (4600 mph) The Talon A is still in development.
The Black Ice is a fully reusable space plane designed initially for cargo but with a follow-up variant for transporting crew.

ZeroAvia's Hydrogen fuel cell power Piper M-class was damaged during a hard landing in the United Kingdom. Left gear and wing sheared off aircraft. No comment on the next steps.

Finally, an interesting situation out of Scranton, PA. American Eagle Flight 3029 departed and returned due to a mechanical issue. One passenger's luggage was missing when the plane landed and there were two reports of a possible unsecured compartment.