"Boeing Co ‘s first South Carolina-made 787 Dreamliner lifted off the ground at about 12:04 p.m. today, a soaring achievement for the company’s North Charleston campus and for the state’s aviation ambitions." (www.postandcourier.com) Mer...
This 747 is sitting in a boneyard in Mojave, CA awaiting scrapping. On May 23rd, 2012 the area experienced extreme winds of 70+ miles per hour due to a low pressure zone. Without the weight of its engines, the slightly tail heavy 747 tries to take to the skies one last time. The next day the plane was found to have also rotated about 45 degrees from its original position. (www.youtube.com) Mer...
Australian travelers may get a chance to see Boeing's aptly named Dreamliner as it makes several stops throughout the country this week. The aircraft is arriving in Sydney on Thursday May 24th and will depart out of Darwin on June 1st. (www.ausbt.com.au) Mer...
Unbelievable... A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes... (www.washingtonpost.com) Mer...
But if you did, here’s what you’d learn: That almost every step the agency has taken to protect us from airborne terrorists has either been ineffective or wasteful, or both. And that they’ve got the data to prove it. One Freedom to Travel member, who also happens to be a tenured mathematics professor, applied something called Bayes Rule and the concept of Base Rate Fallacy to the TSA’s behavior-detection methods. Stay with me, here. It revealed that even if TSA’s current screening practices were… (www.elliott.org) Mer...
United Airlines plans to announce Tuesday that it will launch nonstop service between Denver International Airport and Tokyo, according to a news report late Monday. (www.bizjournals.com) Mer...
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was caught making flights into the East 34th Street Heliport even though weekend flights are not allowed. (www.nytimes.com) Mer...
Disgruntled United Airlines pilots have invited their corporate overlords for a meet and greet in the Los Angeles parking lot where many of them sleep. (www.nycaviation.com) Mer...
A 55 year old Riverside resident flying his Cessna 210 from Van Nuys to Phoenix reported engine trouble over El Monte and was attempting to head back to Van Nuys. He then lost power shortly after and had to make a a forced landing in a Glendale neighborhood. The plane cut through power lines and flipped over upon impact. The pilot only was complaining about shoulder problems and is in a stable condition. The plane had 65 gallons of fuel still available but somehow did not ignite. (www.sfgate.com) Mer...
Airbus is offering US airlines buying its A320 passenger jet extra-wide seats for obese passengers, leading to fatter profits, Airbus's aircraft interiors director says. (www.watoday.com.au) Mer...
Tested.com says a total of 1,455 pounds of stuff was hauled up to the International Space Station—primarily grub for those hungry astronauts. (www.scribd.com) Mer...
With an unusual promotion, Delta had — during the age of a generally negative zeitgeist toward airlines — pulled off the unthinkable: Rank-and-file passengers were rooting for an airline the way they do their favorite hockey team. (www.nycaviation.com) Mer...
As a pilot watching a hawk in flight is something very interesting and informative. By taking the time to observe in nature how birds navigate and maneuver through the air we can all become more accomplished airmen and better pilots. Birds use their whole bodies to fly precisely where and how they want, providing us with a great opportunity to observe and learn about aerodynamics. (all-things-aviation.com) Mer...
The Wall Street Journal has reported that a tentative agreement has been reached between Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines for the lease of 88 Boeing 717s currently operating for Southwest's AirTran subsidiary. (online.wsj.com) Mer...
Swedish manufacturer Saab is considering a strategic return to manufacturing regional turboprop aircraft after a 15-year hiatus. (www.flightglobal.com) Mer...
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- American Airlines today announced the flight numbers and markets for its first group of Boeing 777-300ERs that will enter the airline's fleet starting this December. On Dec. 13, the Dallas/Fort Worth – Sao Paulo route will be the first to feature the newest addition to American's fleet. In February, the aircraft will fly to London Heathrow from both Dallas/Fort Worth and New York JFK. (aa.mediaroom.com) Mer...
Around 2 p.m. Monday, Air Canada flight AC001 took off from Pearson Airport en route to Japan, when onlookers noticed the plane was smoking. Air Canada officials say one of the Boeing 777’s engines shut down and the crew carried out a routine emergency procedure that saw the aircraft carrying 318 passengers land safely back at Pearson around 4 p.m. (news.nationalpost.com) Mer...
GE Aviation is “ready to go” on a new engine to power 70-90 seat turboprops as well as a next generation regional jet powerplant, and awaits decisions from airframers, says Allen Paxson, the company’s general manager for small commercial engines. (www.aviationweek.com) Mer...
Ivan Agerton, at Deep Space Reconnaissance/Special Ops, sent us this incredibly crisp footage of the F-35 shot for Lockheed Martin using a Red Epic camera and a Canon zoom. (gizmodo.com) Mer...
Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra. The New York Democrat is reacting to an Associated Press story last week detailing how families this summer are going to find it harder to sit together without paying fees that can add up to hundreds of dollars over the original ticket price. "Children need access to their parents, and parents need access to their children," Schumer said in a statement. "Unnecessary… (www.sfgate.com) Mer...
There is starting to be a routine to this: as Airbus and Boeing advance development of new products, their family concepts start to shrink. (www.aviationweek.com) Mer...
An experimental airplane has crashed into Lake Jessup, just outside of Sanford Florida. Seminole County emergency management officials said they started to receive calls at 8:30am Thursday morning that an airplane had crashed into the alligator infested lake... (www.thefloridanewsjournal.com) Mer...
American Eagle Airlines is cutting management in a move similar to that recently undertaken by sister carrier American Airlines. (www.aviationweek.com) Mer...
About 158 passengers on board Jet Airways Riyadh-Mumbai flight on Monday escaped unhurt after a fire broke out in the left engine of the aircraft on its landing here. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Mer...
The Airbus A350-1000 will beat the Boeing 777-300ER on range and fuel burn per passenger, but demand for the A350 is outstripping availability, Airbus COO-customers John Leahy said Wednesday during a media briefing in Toulouse, France. (atwonline.com) Mer...
This week a team of forest rangers will hike up Elephant Mountain near Greenville to recover an ejection seat missing since the crash of a B-52 bomber that killed seven airmen nearly 50 years ago. The ejection seat has been located on an overgrown logging road southwest of the infamous crash site. (www.mpbn.net) Mer...
Qantas Airways says it is splitting its international and domestic operations into two separate businesses from July - a day after revealing it would shed more than 500 engineering jobs in Victoria. (www.smh.com.au) Mer...
Caslav AFB, Czech Republic. Six crew members were injured when a Russian Air Force An-30 (conducting an Open Skies surveillance flight with 23 people on board) caught fire after crash-landing today at 11:50 CET (www.planes.cz) Mer...
Subdued representatives from SuperJet International (SJI) told reporters at the Regional Airline Assn. (RAA) annual convention in Minneapolis Tuesday that the recent crash of a Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100 has not significantly altered plans to manufacture and market the Russian-built regional aircraft. (atwonline.com) Mer...
Airbus is expecting up to 120 A380s to be delivered before the permanent fix for the wing-rib bracket cracking problem on the type is fully in place. The airframer detailed its proposed solution during a briefing in Toulouse. Its initial retrofit, for aircraft already in service, centres on 23 hybrid ribs mounted in the more lightly-loaded sections of each wing. (www.flightglobal.com) Mer...
Las mayores aerolíneas europeas están estudiando el impacto que tendría la salida de Grecia de la moneda única sobre sus negocios, una cuestión a la que sus presidentes restaron importancia al señalar que es un ejercicio habitual en el sector privado. (www.abc.es) Mer...
The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse takes off on May 24, in Payerne on its first attempted intercontinental flight from Switzerland to Morocco. Solar Impulse, piloted by Andre Borschberg, is expected to land in Madrid for a stopover before heading to Morocco without using a drop of fuel. Bertrand Piccard will pilot the second leg on to Rabat, scheduled to leave Madrid on May 28 at the earliest. (photoblog.msnbc.msn.com) Mer...
Interesting track of UAL900, B744 from KSFO to EDDF. Aborted because of landing gear door problems (per LiveATC.net feed) and return to KSFO. Fuel dump near Point Reyes. (flightaware.com) Mer...
A 'Million Miler' sues United Airlines over perk reductions due to the new MileagePlus Program from the United-Continental merger. (www.chicagotribune.com) Mer...
Counterfeit electronic parts from China are "flooding" into critical U.S. military systems, including special operations helicopters and surveillance planes, and are putting the nation's troops at risk, according to a new U.S. Senate committee report. (gma.yahoo.com) Mer...
After a one-year investigation, NOAA has announced that in 2010 and 2011 National Weather Service employees at its headquarters “reprogrammed funds.” Unnamed persons moved $26 million out of the budget for local warnings and forecasts and $9 million out of the budget to upgrade the agency’s radar to include the dual-polarization capability. The National Weather Service’s long-time director, Jack Hayes, resigned on Friday. (blog.chron.com) Mer...
Palestinian Airlines is back in the skies after being grounded for seven years by the deepening enmities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Once hailed as a symbol of Palestinian statehood dreams, the carrier is a tiny operation, with just two 48-seat turboprop planes, two weekly flights and a borrowed hub in Egypt. But Palestinians say just being on the map again is what matters. “My hands were shaking when I bought the ticket … and it said the name of the carrier is Palestinian Airlines,’’… (articles.boston.com) Mer...
A Southwest Airlines flight scheduled from Burbank to Las Vegas aborted takeoff this evening due to an unusual noise heard from one of the engines. (www.sacbee.com) Mer...
Whilst those of you that have seen Air Pacific planes might be a little confused by this press release issued by the airline (due to the fact the airline’s livery has a huge ‘Fiji’ written on the tailfin), the old airline is being reborn. Fiji Airways (Air Pacific’s original name) will become the brand name once again of this rainbow fleet of jets next year. Originally changed to promote it’s network and dominance within the region in 1958, Fiji Airways has returned as a way to promote the… (t.co) Mer...
While the intent of the policy shift appears to be to encourage pilots to self report deviations, ALPA says pilots who have been assured by controllers that the transgression is a minor one not worthy of FAA attention have found out later that they've been written up. (www.avweb.com) Mer...
