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CSeries will pose "serious" threat to Boeing 737-700: analyst

Bombardier's CSeries family, the new specifications of which were revealed here , is poised to become a serious threat to the Boeing 737-700. So says analyst Jacques Kavafian, who, after recently attending a China tour organized by Bombardier, rather...

Posted to Runway Girl by Runway Girl on Wed, Jul 2 2008

Filed under: China Southern Airlines, Air Transport, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Bombardier, CSeries, 110, Jacques Kavafian, 130, 110ER, 130ER, Boeing 737-700
Aircell on the record...briefly (plus a July 4th Boingo promo)

Aircell has replied to my request for comment about last week's trial of its Gogo connectivity service onboard a couple of American Airlines 767-200 flights. "In terms of the public test last week, we were very pleased with the response from...

Posted to Runway Girl by Runway Girl on Thu, Jul 3 2008

Filed under: US Air Transport, In-flight Entertainment/Communications, American Airlines, in-flight connectivity, Aircell, Boingo, Boeing 767-200
A pilot's perspective on BA's L'Avion buy and scope

A friend of mine who flies as a commercial pilot has some interesting insight into the scope issue facing BA's OpenSkies. I've covered the issue of US pilot scope clauses on this side of the pond many times ( this 2006 piece has nearly everything...

Posted to Runway Girl by Runway Girl on Thu, Jul 3 2008

Filed under: Air Transport, Boeing 757, scope, OpenSkies, British Airways, BA, L'Avion, pilot
Countdown to CSeries final assembly decision (plus all that China talk)

A decision on where the CSeries will be assembled has not yet been made, but signs are increasingly pointing to Bombardier's Mirabel, Quebec plant. Bombardier has long said it sees its plant in Mirabel - a suburb of Montreal - as the "preferred...

Posted to Runway Girl by Runway Girl on Mon, Jul 7 2008

Filed under: Research Capital, Air Transport, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Bombardier, CSeries, Farnborough, Jacques Kavafian, Kansas City, Mirabel
That's one hell of a bird

The Northwest jet that looks like it got punched in the nose by the Hulk, and NBC's take on the matter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmkJ67zXgg Read More...

Posted to Runway Girl by Runway Girl on Tue, Jul 8 2008

Filed under: US Air Transport, Northwest Airlines, bird strike
Virgin America's Charles Ogilvie heads to Panasonic

It's official. Charles Ogilvie, one of the top airline IFE talking heads in the industry, is leaving Virgin America on Friday to take up a position at Panasonic. Here is Virgin America CEO David Cush's email to employees: Dear Teammates: I t is...

Posted to Runway Girl by Runway Girl on Tue, Jul 8 2008

Filed under: Air Transport, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Virgin America, US Air Transport, In-flight Entertainment/Communications, IFE, in-flight entertainment, Panasonic, David Cush, Charles Ogilvie
US Airways explains A320 IFE pull out; reveals Lumexis trial!!!

Okay, so you've seen reports today that US Airways is banning movies on its domestic flights, and you're wondering: "For the love of God an d all that is holy, how cheap can they get? Free water is, after all, down the toilet . I asked US...

Posted to Runway Girl by Runway Girl on Wed, Jul 9 2008

Filed under: US Airways, US Air Transport, In-flight Entertainment/Communications, IFE, in-flight entertainment, Lumexis, Airbus A320
Meet the Bombardier CRJ1000 EuroLite

All this chatter about how Bombardier's new CSeries 130XT variant is aimed at clients in Europe and elsewhere gets one to thinking about whether the airframer has a special CRJ1000 variant in mind for Europe too. Well, by golly, it does. In addition...

Posted to Runway Girl by Runway Girl on Wed, Jul 9 2008

Filed under: Air Transport, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Bombardier, CSeries, Adria Airways, CRJ1000 EuroLite, CSeries 130XT, Air France, Brit Air, CRJ1000, Myair
Gliding competition.

If you havent looked into gliding then take a peak at this utube it will give you a taste. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-ZIILtI2I

Posted to sandy by sandy on Tue, Nov 27 2007
Keep a good look out

Hi, I dont know if this is the sort of thing you like to blog about.. we fly a 2 seat glider around the south of england. This summer (?) we had a close encounter with a Tornato ( no i didnt get a picture of it) we have just had the report back and there...

Posted to sandy by sandy on Wed, Nov 28 2007
A Complex (Airplane) Question

After reading last week’s post, NPRM Points to Flight Training’s Future , Jason Blair, the executive director of the National Association of Flight Instructors ( NAFI ), called early the morning it arrived in his email box. He was off to DC...

Posted to Jetwhine by Jetwhine on Tue, Sep 22 2009

Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Instructor, CFI, Pilot Training, Mooney, Commercial Pilot, Piper Arrow, Complex Airplanes, Beech Bonanca, Pilot Certification
Business & General Aviation: Letters Won’t do it All

Even for me, this whole business aviation as the bad guy thing is becoming pretty tiresome. In last week’s USA Today article about Aviation Trust Fund dollars being rudely sucked away from big airports to keep podunk runways usable, the Air Transport...

Posted to Jetwhine by Jetwhine on Thu, Sep 24 2009

Filed under: The Buzz, air travel, Jim Coyne, TSA, Air Transport Association, airline passengers, Aviation Trust Fund, NBAA, Ed Bolen, business aviation pilots, NBC Today Show, Oxford Economics, air transport, John and Martha King, NATA, USA Today, King Schools
Brennand Airport: A Work in Perpetuity

Owning and operating an airport was never one of Ted Vander Wielen’s life goals. But in 1995, Ted says, he learned that Bill Brennand was retiring and selling the airport he built 10 miles north of Oshkosh in 1968. The only party interested in buying...

Posted to Jetwhine by Jetwhine on Wed, Sep 30 2009

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh, private airport, Brennand Airport, country airport, airport survival
Visual Distractions Still Affect Flight Safety

When I learned to fly back in the mid 1970s, the airspace over the LA Basin was pretty crowded. Because of the smog that then reduced the visibility to some degree every day, most aviators were usually quite serious about seeing and avoiding each other...

Posted to Jetwhine by Jetwhine on Tue, Oct 6 2009

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, aviation safety, Aviation Marketing, Aviation Safety Reporting System, NASA Form, Callback, see-and-avoid traffic avoidance, situational awareness
Flight to the Edge of Space

My pal Rod Rakic – better known as Mr. My Transponder – and I were chatting today about his upcoming vacation to Florida, not too far from the Kennedy Space Center and almost in time for the next Shuttle launch. I would do almost anything...

Posted to Jetwhine by Jetwhine on Thu, Oct 8 2009

Filed under: The Buzz, SR-71, U-2, My Transponder, Rod Rakic, US Space Program, Space Shuttle

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