Capt. Taylor Bye skillfully belly landed her A-10 with landing gear up and no cockpit canopy last April. She was recently awarded the Air Combat Command Airmanship Award for this accomplishment. At a ...

This is the moment a bird collided with a Red Arrows jet and smashed its cockpit canopy during an air show display. The collision marked an abrupt end to Sunday's performance by the world famous RAF ...

The NHRA Technical Department has granted conceptual approval of a prototype cockpit canopy submitted by Aerodine Composites Group that was originally designed by Don Schumacher Racing. The initial ...

Kurt Ernst August 16, 2012 Comment Now! Safety is always a consideration for any form of motorsport, and sanctioning bodies are always looking at ways to make racing safer. One such effort involves ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued report on a small plane that crashed into a Sauk Rapids house June 20, killing the pilot and a German foreign exchange student who was a passenger.

A Spitfire's cockpit canopy detached mid-flight, causing an emergency return to Biggin Hill airport. The incident involved a Spitfire IXT, registered G-BMSB, which had taken off from London Biggin ...

The NHRA approved the use of the cockpit canopy to enclose the driver's area in top fuel dragsters, and teams can start using the design this weekend at Brainerd. The concept, originally developed by ...

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Losing the canopy at 30,000 feet isn't the worst thing that can happen to a person in a fighter jet, but it's still a hell of an unpleasant experience. But it didn't matter to the crew of an Israeli ...

Four drivers will have a canopy above the cockpit of their Top Fuel dragster in 2013 The canopy adds weight%2C cost and requires a significant overhaul of the cockpit of a the dragster Antron Brown ...

The NHRA approved the use of the cockpit canopy to enclose the driver's area in top fuel dragsters, and teams can start using the design this weekend at Brainerd. The concept, originally developed by ...