Agonizing and Awe-Inspiring; Another Year in Aviation Flies By
Bookending the aviation news for the year 2014 is the Dreamliner battery; the sizzling lithium ion-flavored power source that I suggested in January was already being reviewed by the eggheads and...
View ArticleGlobal Girl & Girlfriend of Sex Offender Epstein Same Person Flight School Says
The Facebook page of Global GirlSee previous post on this subject here.The owner of the flight school where popular online aviatrix Nadia Marcinko received her private and commercial pilots licenses...
View ArticleLower Fuel Costs Good/News Bad News for Hawaiian
Hawaiian Airlines at New YorkFor every up there's a down, and no industry knows that better than the airlines. No, I'm not talking about takeoffs and landings, but the good news/bad news of declining...
View ArticleOcean Search for MH 370 Lets Malaysia Overlook Clues on the Ground
9M-MRO in Los Angeles photo by Jay DavisThe adage that if you repeat a lie often enough people will start to believe it, can be appropriately applied to the search for answers to the disappearance of...
View ArticleLost and Confounded Until Hiker Finds Missing Plane
What forces of fate allow thousands of people to cross the same terrain without seeing the crashed airplane that John Weisheit discovered on May 20th? And what does his find tell us about the...
View ArticleGrowth, Profitability and Timing Lifts Airline Industry
Tyler addresses the executives Photo by IATAWriting from Miami - It seems strange to me that under the guidance of the soft spoken and urbane Tony Tyler, the airline industry should be experiencing its...
View ArticleDelta 747 Replacement Not Ready for Prime Time
N671US in Shannon days ago. Photo courtesy Kevin CorryThis just in: The Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 N664US which was heavily damaged by hail on a flight to Seoul Korea last month will return to the...
View ArticleThe Eye Opening Experience of Passing out at 25K
Instructor Ron Diedrichs with EVA cadetsYou got to hand it to the folks at Taiwan’s EVA Airlines they’re taking the hypoxia threat seriously. Each of its pilot cadets learning to fly airliners at the...
View ArticlePassion but Few Tears in Amsterdam for Airliners That Fly into the Past
Too often air travel is an antiseptic experience for the passenger as we sit in tile-floored, waiting rooms, our heads down and our minds in cyberspace. It is so rare and so thrilling to actually smell...
View ArticleQuest For More From CNN From MH-370
Full disclosure: The Crash Detectives, my own book on the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370, will be published by Penguin in September. This may have colored my perception of Richard...
View ArticleQuest For More From CNN From MH-370
Full disclosure: The Crash Detectives, my own book on the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370, will be published by Penguin in September. This may have colored my perception of Richard...
View ArticleMore Than Meets The Eye in Kenya Plane Spotter Arrests
Men from Manchester held by Kenya photo courtesy of The StarThere's something very strange about the news out of Nairobi in which four British men were arrested after taking photos of airplanes at the...
View ArticleIcon Suggests Pilot Erred In A5 Plane Crash
Investigators don’t know what caused the fatal plane crash last week of the new and highly-anticipated light-sport Icon A5, but in a statement on the company website, Icon’s director of flight, Shane...
View ArticleOn Ohio’s Aviation Trail Bikers Pedal Through a Century of Flight
Ask anyone about the Wright Brothers and for sure, they’ll mention flight and maybe even that before inventing their famous airplane, Orville & Wilber Wright built bikes. Even though they are...
View ArticleFirst Airliner to Disappear is Found – 60 Years Later a Town Remembers
What unites the first airliner to go missing in 1931 with the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 is simple geography. As big as today’s airliners are, they are infinitesimally small in...
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