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Rare Fw-190 Part Found in Rural Kansas

When I traveled recently to rural eastern Kansas to write and shoot a profile for Aviation for Women , the magazine of Women In Aviation International , holding the last surviving part of a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was the last thing I expected to do. But here...

Published Mon, Sep 29 2008 2:46 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, sport aviation, Military, warbird restoration, Aviation History, Focke-Wulf 190, Fantasy of Flight, Women in Aviation, McFarlane Aviation, White 1 Foundation

O’Hare International Airport: Land of 10,000 Lakes

There used to be an area south of the control tower at O’Hare International Airport that acted as a catch basin of sorts when the rains came. They used to call it Lake O’Hare as a matter of fact. Weekend before last, the same weekend that...

Published Fri, Sep 26 2008 2:19 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, pilots, air travel, ATC, Chicago O’Hare International Airport

Simple Airplanes + Modern Construction = Full-Scale Affordable Flight

Like most pilots, I dreamed of one day owning an airplane. With the cost of groceries and gas, one son in college and his brother starting next year, I’d put the dream to bed. Given all the costs, I couldn’t justify it to myself, because I...

Published Wed, Sep 24 2008 3:59 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, light-sport aircraft, Airdrome Aeroplanes, Flyboys, World War I airplanes, Sopwith Pup, Nieuport 17

Aviation Supply vs. Demand - The Business Aviation Option

I’m not an economist so perhaps I tend to oversimplify some things, but I find the concept of supply and demand a bit puzzling, especially when it comes to parts of our own industry that claim to focus on the need to constantly improve customer...

Published Mon, Sep 22 2008 4:51 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Business Aviation, air travel, United Airlines, airline, Cessna Aircraft, supply and demand, Cirrus Design Company, airline passenger loyalty, Bombardier, Gulfstream, Dassault, Embraer

Airline Flying Isn’t Like a Bus … It is a Bus

Well, Spirit Airlines has finally gone and done it. They’ve taken what used to be a really nice product - I flew them often between ORD and TPA until they dropped the service - and turned it into the closest thing to a city bus possible by adding...

Published Thu, Sep 18 2008 1:56 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, pilots, air travel, ALPA, bus advertising, mile high club, Spirit Airlines, mile high media

Proposed Policy Doesn’t Solve Homebuilt Problem

If my homebuilding buddies are a typical sample of the amateur-built airplane community, there’s a lot of confusion about what led to the new policy the FAA has proposed. (See Homebuilt Aircraft: How Much is More than Half? ) My friends are solid...

Published Mon, Sep 15 2008 4:15 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Amateur-built experimental aircraft, 51-percent rule, homebuilding, hired-gun airplane builders, FAA Policy, EAA

September 11th; The FAA Administrator Speaks

This is the seventh anniversary of the terror attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington that included the hijacking of four airliners eventually used as suicide bombs, the first time we all learned that sitting back and hoping for the best as passengers...

Published Thu, Sep 11 2008 2:39 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, pilots, air travel, NATCA, Bobby Sturgell, New York, Washington and Pennsylvania attacks, Jane Garvey, September 11th 2001

Pilots Maintain Grassroots Aviation Growth at Liberty Landing Airport

To most pilots who fly over it, Liberty Landing Airport (4MO4) isn’t anything special. On the sectional chart it’s just another private airport, an empty circle around an R that stands for restricted about 20 nm east, southeast of Kansas City...

Published Wed, Sep 10 2008 8:27 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Sport Pilot, Kansas City Dawn Patrol, World War I airplanes, Liberty Landing Airport, Missouri River, Flood of 1993

Can You Say Aircraft Emergency?

I picked up this video of an F-16 making a dead-stick landing into Elizabeth City NC from my friend Patrick at, not surprisingly, Patrick’s Video site . I don’t know where he finds all this cool stuff. If you EVER wondered what an emergency...

Published Mon, Sep 8 2008 5:13 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Training, pilot, aircraft emergency, F-16, Patrick’s Video site, Jetwhin.com

A Labor Day Podcast

As another part of our Labor Day coverage the other day, I took part in recording a new podcast with the Aviation Geeks , Max Flight and Courtney Miller. We hit quite a few topics related to labor that made for a great show. Give it a listen. Technorati...

Published Thu, Sep 4 2008 10:32 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, FAA, pilots, Delta Airlines, Jetwhine.com, unions, Labor Day, IAM, Boeing

Going My Way: Jeppesen’s VFR+GPS Charts

It’s always bugged me that I need two sectional charts–Green Bay and Chicago–to get from my home in OSH to my family growing-up grounds west of the commercial Class B airspace plug stuck in the ground at ORD. It’s more than the...

Published Tue, Sep 2 2008 4:51 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, charts, jeppesen, chart, terminal, navigation, sectional, shading

Labor Day 2008: Strategies for Aviation

There’s nothing quite like Labor Day for a little reflection about the state of business in America. This year, there’s plenty to give us a moment’s pause too, because short of auto manufacturing, I can’t think of another American...

Published Mon, Sep 1 2008 12:12 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, FAA, pilots, United Airlines, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, Bobby Sturgell, Jetwhine.com, Leadership, unions, Labor Day, GlennTilton.com

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