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• Fun Flyer Lands Roll in new Amelia Earhart Film

  If time is short, never ask *** and Sharon Starks what they’ve been up to lately. Both pilots, these retired schoolteachers have a full flying life that any pilot would envy. Anxious to see Sharon’s new airplane, a Morane Model L parasol,... Posted Aug 13 2008, 07:35 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Aviation Marketing, Bleriot, Blogging, General, Morane, sport aviation, Amelia Earhart, Airdrome Aeroplanes, Airports, Kansas City Dawn Patrol, Flyboys, Light sport aircraft, movie making

• August 3, 1981 - PATCO Strike Remembered

  I remember the morning of August 3, 1981 vividly as I turned on the TV to find news stories of air traffic controller members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization-PATCO -marching with picket signs at the base of the tower at Chicago... Posted Aug 03 2008, 06:40 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: ATC, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, Business Aviation, FAA, FAA Public Affairs, Flight Training, Air Traffic Control, air travel, NATCA, The Buzz, unions, pilots, PATCO, Airlines, Airports, Light sport aircraft, government leadership

• Cole & Kittinger: Hearing History First Hand

  It seems fitting that my fourth decade of EAA AirVenture attendance starts like the first, meeting those who made the history I read about as a kid. On my first trip to Oshkosh in 1978 I met Pappy Boyington and George Gay (see EAA AirVenture Forums is... Posted Aug 02 2008, 03:19 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: 30 seconds over Tokyo, Project Excelsior, Blogging, Dick Cole, Doolittle Raid, EAA AirVenture, General, Joe Kittinger, The Buzz, Military, Man High

• Ken Scott: Multitasking at Van’s Aircraft

  Van’s Aircraft is a small company that’s put a big smile on faces who’ve taken to the sky in the company’s line of RVs. The handful of employees also wear big smiles, even after standing in the hot Oshkosh sun all day, because... Posted Aug 01 2008, 01:12 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Aviation Marketing, Blogging, EAA AirVenture, General, sport aviation, The Buzz, Van’s Aircraft, RV-12, Rotax 912S, Light sport aircraft, light-sport aircraft, LSA

• Backyard Flyer Fits Pilots of All Sizes

  As promised in a recent post ( Backyard Flying: Fun & Cheap ), I ambled down to the lightplane area at the south end of the EAA AirVenture site to try on Valley Engineering’s Backyard Flyer. It fit! To most people that may not be a big deal... Posted Jul 31 2008, 01:20 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Recreational Aviation, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, EAA AirVenture, Flight Training, General, sport aviation, The Buzz, Ultralights, Valley Engineering, Airports, Light sport aircraft, Backyard Flyer

• Flight Instructors: There’s Always More to Learn

  If I say that most CFIs make lousy business people, I’m unlikely to offend too many people … some for sure, just not too many I’ll wager. The reason is simple. Most CFIs do make lousy business people because teaching is often secondary... Posted Jul 31 2008, 03:12 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Aviation Marketing, Blogging, Bobby Sturgell, CFI of the Year, FAA, Flight Training, Jetwhine.com, Learning to fly, The Buzz, Airports, Light sport aircraft, Max Trescott

• BlogFest @ AirVenture: The Ideas Flowed

  Five minutes before the blog session began at AirVenture yesterday, I was wondering if the whole thing had been such a good idea. There were five people in the room. Maybe it was too soon to talk social media. Then, as the clock struck four, people began... Posted Jul 30 2008, 03:25 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Aviation Marketing, Blogging, Business Aviation, FAA, Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports

• On The Record: Making Aviation More Social

  There’s nothing quite like meeting up with a bunch of pilot buddies on a Saturday morning for a great breakfast. The social aspect of flying, in fact, is one of the best ways for newer pilots to learn from more experienced aviators. In PR lingo... Posted Jul 28 2008, 05:49 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: AirVenture 2008, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, Business Aviation, Flight Training, Learning to fly, MyTransponder.com, Air Traffic Control, air travel, sport aviation, The Buzz, pilots, Airlines, Airports, Light sport aircraft, social networking

• EAA AirVenture Forums is Where Flying Friendships Form

  Six months out of the Navy I attended my first trip to Oshkosh in 1978. I went for the airplanes. Not one of them now stands out in memory. Not so with the people I met. Sitting in side-by-side booths in the old exhibit shed were Pappy Boyington of AVG... Posted Jul 24 2008, 06:59 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Aviation Marketing, Blogging, EAA AirVenture, Forums, General, The Buzz, Pappy Boyington, Flying Friends, George Gay

• John Carr’s Gone Fishin’

  Anyone who follows the happenings of the FAA and air traffic control knows John Carr. He spent more than a couple of years at the helm of NATCA , the controller’s union, and was Pat Forrey’s predecessor. I had the pleasure of interviewing... Posted Jul 23 2008, 12:18 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: ATC, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, Bobby Sturgell, Business Aviation, FAA, FAA Public Affairs, Flight Training, John Carr, Air Traffic Control, air travel, NATCA, The Buzz, The Main Bang, unions, Pat Forrey, Airlines, Airports

• More AirVenture Blogging Buzz

  And just when you think almost no one notices anything you write comes a great article like this one from FlightGlobal’s Runway Girl, Mary Kirby . She interviewed me a few days ago when she realized she wouldn’t be able to make it to Oshkosh... Posted Jul 23 2008, 12:07 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: AirVenture 2008, Aviation Marketing, Blog Fest, Blogging, Business Aviation, Flight Training, flight training magazine, FlightGlobal, General Aviation, air travel, Runway Girl, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, Light sport aircraft, Mary Kirby, social media

• AirVenture Blogger Fest Next Week

  It doesn’t seem possible that it’s been nearly a year in the making, but it has. When I suggested a get together for aviation bloggers last fall I never thought I’d see much interest. But was I wrong. By Thanksgiving I’d had messages... Posted Jul 21 2008, 06:56 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Oshkosh Wisconsin, AirVenture 2008, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, Business Aviation, FAA, Flight Training, General Aviation, Jetwhine.com, Air Traffic Control, air travel, The Buzz, Web 2.0, Airlines, Airports, Light sport aircraft, Twitter, social media

• A Really Super Jumbo Jet

  You have to love this one. And this has nothing to do with FAA! London’s Times Online and Plane Stupid are spreading the story about how the BAA apparently supported its case for a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport - the busiest airport... Posted Jul 20 2008, 04:41 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Aviation Marketing, Blogging, FAA, Heathrow Airport, Jetwhine.com, Air Traffic Control, Plane Stupid, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, London Times Online, BAA

• Make FAAST Your FAA Connection

  Am I the last airman in America to totally ignore the free and invaluable gift that is FAAST, the FAA Safety Team at www.FAASafety.gov ? Sometime during the past two years I gave the FAA my email address. When and how doesn’t matter. What’s... Posted Jul 17 2008, 02:26 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Wings Program, Aviation Marketing, avionics technician, Blogging, FAA, FAA Handbooks, FAA Safety Team, FAASTeam, Flight Training, General, sport aviation, The Buzz, Pilot Proficiency Program, airmen, Airports, Light sport aircraft, maintenance technician

• The Pilot Shortage: A New Perspective

  Every so often Jetwhine is lucky enough to unexpectedly receive an important work of prose from another professional mind. Today we have one from Frank Froman, a St. Louis psychologist, a man with a secret dream, but a man who also knows how to solve... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:53 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Aviation Marketing, Blogging, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports