What They Don’t Teach You in Ground School, Part I: Pushy Corporate Clients
Desperate pilots don’t stay pilots long. In the short term, they may be in the air, but in the long run, the Client Factor will make a decision for them that they simply can’t live with.
A Promise Kept: The Eastern DC-7B Story
Joe Kocour’s beloved Eastern DC-7B is once again flying above us, and that is a promise kept.
Flights from Tokyo Trigger Radiation Alarms in Chicago and Dallas
Two flights from Tokyo which landed in Chicago and Dallas triggered radiation alarms at those airports on Wednesday.
The Evolution of Engine Starting: From Hand-Propping to Button Pushing
For many of us, our first understanding on how to start an airplane was when Bugs Bunny started the engines of the “World’s Largest Airplane” in Hare Lift (FF to 2:04). With a simple push of a button, all of the radial en...
The Logbook
In today's daily digest, great snaps of the Aeroflot A330 in SkyTeam colors, Mexicana joins one world, a funny complaint letter to Richard Branson, a Kingfisher ATR-72 overruns a runway, United suspends a drunken pilot and more.