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Beauty Takes The Runway on A350 Tour (Just Don't Look Too Close)
F-WWCF the Airbus A350 MSN #2 in Newark on ThursdayThe Airbus A350 XWB that flew into Newark Liberty International Airport this week on another stop on its tour of the Americas looked awfully pretty...
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Possible MH-370 Debris Should Trigger New Search Ideas
It’s an exciting possibility that a piece of Malaysia Flight 370 may have washed up on the beach in Reunion Island, 3700 miles across the Indian Ocean from Perth. What looks to be a piece of wing is...
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Egg Heads Unlikely Malaysia 370 Heroes in the Bamboozle Era
In the past I’ve referred to them as the kids who couldn’t get a date for the prom. Now, I bet the engineers at the British satellite communication company inmarsat will be the coolest kids of summer...
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High but Not So Mighty American Dreamliner Damage Photos
Updated with pilot commentRadome damageGlass half full: This American Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner, returned to Beijing safely after flying into a hail storm at 26 thousand feet (ish) after takeoff...
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Wing Flap Should Elevate MH 370 Investigation
The section of wing found on Reunion Island in the South Indian Ocean last week came from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, or at least enough of a positive identification was made today for the...
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Aviation Reveals the Mystery of Human Resiliency
One month before Orville Wright's birthday (which we remember today on National Aviation day) he was injured in a plane crash while demonstrating the Wright Flyer to the U.S. Army in Ft. Myers,...
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A Soprano-Like Shakedown Squeezes Smisek out of United
Jeff Smisek in happier daysUnited's boss Jeff Smisek resigned from the airline today, as a probe continues into whether he and other top executives agreed to provide favors for a government official in...
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Mud Stud or Desk Detective, Two Seminars for Air Crash Analysis
Platinum Jet crash at Teterboro in 2005Who is an air crash investigator? On those television documentaries, there’s always some government sleuth who cracks the case with extraordinary tenaciousness...
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The 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...
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Passion 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...
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Don’t Be Spooked if 787 Battery Box is a Smoky Cauldron
Note: This post has been updated with new information from TUI Arkefly.Two years ago, episodes of smoking and sputtering lithium ion batteries on two Boeing Dreamliners were so horrifying the entire...
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Eyebrows Ascend as Airline Execs Demonstrate Their Plonker-ism
It never ceases to amaze me how often senior airline bosses will prattle on regardless of what they know about the subject. The latest you've-got-to-be-kidding remarks come from Alexander Smirnov, the...
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Prudence and Probable Cause Not the Same Thing in Metrojet Crash
UK Prime Minister Cameron Government photoAll over the news today is the story of the UK and Irish governments canceling flights out of Sharm el Sheikh. British Prime Minister David Cameron told...
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Science Shows Metrojet Crash Triggered by a Bomb
The blast that took down a Russian Airbus A320 over the Sinai last month, had to be triggered by a bomb, an experienced explosives expert said today. "If the information about the plane being at 31,000...
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Merry Christmas for U.S. Airlines With Record Profits in 2015
US Carrier profitability takes offIt will be a merry end of the year for North American airlines which will earn nearly $20 billion in profits in 2015, according to numbers forecast today by the...
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Nice Landing or Scary Takeoff A350 Enters Service With Both
A350 arrives in Brazil photo courtesy TAMWhat a difference a week makes. Early this morning, TAM Airlines happily welcomed its first Airbus A350 when it touched down uneventfully in Brazil after a...
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Happy Birthday from Syria and Other Places in a Troubled World
One of my Facebook messages todayNot long after my eyes opened this morning I enjoyed reading some of the early birthday greetings posted on my Facebook page. (Don't judge me.) It is heartwarming to be...
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WWJD? If Jesus Had Been a Pilot
A patient being carried All photos courtesy Samaritan Aviation.Mark Palm thinks he knows what Jesus might do if he were a pilot. He might climb into the left seat of a Cessna 206 Amphibian and fly the...
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Aviation Year in Review Has a Star Wars Sci-Fi Feel
Harrison Ford and cast Disney handout photo Star Wars dominated the end-of-the-year entertainment news. Harrison Ford, the ageless superstar most associated with the ageless film franchise also arrives...
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Third World Bathrooms in OneWorld Terminal
Warning to readers: Photos of toilets appear in this post.Travelers at the airport hail from many countries and speak many languages but women arriving on oneworld flights into New York’s John F....
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