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Malaysian Artist's Mixed Media View of Aviation
Masnoor in his studio in April 2014One night in Spain, I took a walk down to the edge of the Mediterranean where a brilliant white moon seemed to turn the water into a sea of graphite. I had no camera...
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Dreamliner Fuels the Boom in International Flying
A UA 787-9 photo courtesy UnitedPassengers on United Flight 98 from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia on October 26, participated in small slice of aviation history; flying on the world's longest...
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Cattle to Coddle Class; Tips from JetBlue, Turkish and Others
My friend enjoyed first class treatment on ThaiI don't often sit outside of the economy cabin when I fly and neither do most of my friends. So when I or someone I know gets an upgraded experience it is...
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Dreamliner Battery Still Not Safe Enough, NTSB Report Says
Firefighters at Logan Airport NTSB photoHow many ways did the company producing the lithium ion batteries on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fail to meet safe standards? I'm still wading through the 100 page...
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Does Black Friday Sale on Lasers Threaten Air Travel?
This post has been updated to include comment from the U.S. FDA. One of the largest sellers of high powered laser pointers has done an about face, discontinuing sales of devices that are styled to look...
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Timing is Right to Remember Wright Brothers as Symbols of Perseverance
Now. While we are celebrating the Wright Brothers historic flight 111 years ago, let me tell you the story of two other brothers; pilots and tinkerers who, in their own small way are commemorating the...
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Air Asia Mystery, the Benefit of Seeing This Before
The Air Asia communication executives sat at a round table with chaos all around, trying to concentrate on banging out a press release, twitter updates and Facebook posts while absorbing, processing...
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Indonesia's Troubled Aviation Safety Past
At the Adam Air crash scene. US NavyphotoIf the wreckage of missing Asia Air Flight 8501 is found at the bottom of the sea, as Indonesia's search and rescue chief, Bambang Soelistyo suggests, let's...
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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...
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Reversal of Bad Fortune for Lawyer in Malaysia 370 Claim
The lawsuit filed by the husband of a woman who disappeared on Malaysian Airlines 370, may be headed back to court. An appeals court in Illinois has ruled that the request for discovery filed against...
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Defying Decades of Safety Improvements Airline Fires Flight Attendants
OSHA photo of the graffitiHow long does it take to undo years of effort to improve the way flight crews communicate and share safety-related concerns? About two and a half hours if we're talking about...
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Have You Ever Given Your Pilots a Standing Ovation?
Tip for more laughter, watch the IT CrowdYes, I have tech support, you don't think I churn out posts on two blogs, YouTube, Twitter, my personal website, Huffington Post, and the Seattle PI, maintain...
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Aviation's Effort Combating Laser Attacks Hashtag #Ineffective #Insane
FBI video of laser illumination of an airliner cockpitNo less a brainiac than Albert Einstein could have weighed in on the phenomenally ineffective efforts of American aviation and law enforcement to...
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Did Popular Aviatrix Right-Seat for Epstein in Royal Sex Scandal?
Nadia Marcinko, a popular figure in the online community of pilots and a role model for women interested in aviation seems to have had a less-than-model-perfect past as an acquaintance and possible...
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Global 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...
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Benefit of Experience Seems Lacking in Air Asia Recovery
When Air Asia first learned it had lost flight 8501, en route from Surabaya to Singapore on December 28th, the airline was somewhat prepared; its communications department had recently attended an IATA...
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Lower 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...
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Aussie Pilot Writes the Airbus Rap
Writing a book is not all about writing. This weekend, I've added Boeing Versus Airbus, the 2007 John Newhouse book about, yeah, that's right and Kenny Kemp's Flight of the Titans Airbus A380 vs....
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Hawaiian Weapons in Battle for Market Share; Seaweed and Ukulele Charm
Flight attendant Kama Iona, on an Ohana by Hawaiian flightWhen I peeled back the foil on my in flight meal somewhere over the Pacific between Tokyo and Honolulu, I was not thrilled to discover a thin...
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Government Helps Airlines Shift Security Costs to Passengers
Airlines got a $373 million dollar gift from the government when it eliminated the Aviation Security Infrastructure Fee last year. What with the slide in fuel prices, these 37 U.S. and 71 foreign...
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