Live Updates: No Survivors After Plane and Helicopter Crash Near Washington, Officials Say

Former FAA administrator Michael Whitaker, who still had several years left in his term, resigned on Trump's inauguration day.
A big reason why? Elon Musk publicly pushed for his resignation after the FAA fined SpaceX over $600,000 for failing to follow safety license requirements.
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instagram.comWhen the U.S. Air Force developed rocket planes that could break the sound barrier, the pilots who flew them kept dying.
As planes reached speeds near Mach 2, pilots would lose control due to the thinner air in the upper atmosphere. As Tom Wolfe describes in his book The Right Stuff:
“A plane could skid into a flat spin… and then start tumbling, not... See more
As planes reached speeds near Mach 2, pilots would lose control due to the thinner air in the upper atmosphere. As Tom Wolfe describes in his book The Right Stuff:
“A plane could skid into a flat spin… and then start tumbling, not... See more