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AOPA FTSRI Offers Hope for GA’s Future

Given its more than half century of tradition unimpeded by progress, I’ve always been cynical about the future of general aviation and its life’s blood, the flight training industry that educates new pilots. Then I attended the next-to-last regional meeting...

Published Sat, Aug 27 2011 12:47 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, flight instructors, Flight Schools, student pilots, AOPA Flight Training Student Retention Initiative, aopa’s, attribute, attributes, challenges—initial, ftsri, retention
Voices from the DC-3 a Delightful Surprise

Throughout its life, now 75 years and counting, millions of words have been written about the iconic DC-3/C-47/R4D/Dakota. I’ve written some of them, and read most of them. So I cracked the cover on Together We Fly: Voices from the DC-3 with some trepidation...

Published Sat, Aug 20 2011 12:59 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Military, Aviation History, DC-3, C-47, R4D, Airline Operations, birthday, chapters, delightful, douglas, voices
Kites & Combat: Aviation Surprises Revealed

Surprises are delightful, especially when they reveal innovative and economical ways aviation solves a problem in a unique way. The latest example is the maneuverable kite Paul Garber (yeah, that one, the father of the Smithsonian’s Air & Space Museum...

Published Wed, Aug 17 2011 10:30 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Military, Air & Space Museum, Air & Space Museum, caliber, garber, gunners, kite, kites, paul, Paul Garber, surprises, Target Kites, WAVES
My Weekend with Google: Beware of Free

Few folks I know in the aviation industry doubt the value of social media for making the industry more … well, social. Mike Miley and Rod Rakic at MyTransponder.com have developed an entire Facebook-like enterprise around the entire concept of making...

Published Mon, Aug 15 2011 7:17 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, social media, MyTransponder, The Airplane Geeks, account, docs, email, Google, Google docs, skype, YouTube
Online Publishing Gives Air Facts New Life

At AirVenture a friend asked if I’d seen the new Air Facts. What new Air Facts? All I knew about were the Air Facts videos Richard Collins produced with Sporty’s Pilot Shop that grew out of the eponymous print publication Leighton Collins launched in...

Published Thu, Aug 11 2011 3:25 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, aviation safety, Aviation Marketing, Sporty’s Pilot Shop, Sporty's Pilot Shop, collins, Air Facts Magazine, browsing, facts, General Aviation Transportation, productive, prose, publication, richard, shop
GE Aviation: A Little Brand Fun

Although most of my AirVenture 2011 time was spent getting the Wittman Airport social media presence up and running at, I did leave a little time for some of the more offbeat kinds of fun to be had around the show. This year’s award for the Best of Show...

Published Thu, Aug 4 2011 10:57 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, terminal, Podcast, GE Aviation, AirVenture 2011, command, display_podcast, entire experience, game, GE social media, neil, products, running, Terminal Command, Wittman Rergional Airport
AirVenture 2011: Memorable Waypoints

Sitting on the front porch with my battered feet bared to a healing breeze, I celebrated the end of my 34th EAA AirVenture Oshkosh marathon. Delivering my second round of rehydration elixir, my wife joined me. Having made the trek herself, she knows that...

Published Wed, Aug 3 2011 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, EAA AirVenture, CAFE Green Flight Challenge, Dominican Republic Tourism, Frasca International, HondaJet, Pipistrel Electric Airplane, Valley Engineering Backyard Flyer, Vintage Wings of Canada

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AOPA FTSRI Offers Hope for GA’s Future

Voices from the DC-3 a Delightful Surprise

Kites & Combat: Aviation Surprises Revealed

My Weekend with Google: Beware of Free

Online Publishing Gives Air Facts New Life

GE Aviation: A Little Brand Fun

AirVenture 2011: Memorable Waypoints