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• Enola Gay’s Wendover Hangar On Top 11 List

  Aviation history is written by the triad of people, planes, and places, and news about any of the three always catches my attention. The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently published its 22nd annual list of the nation’s 11 Most Endangered... Posted May 14 2009, 04:57 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Military, B-29 Enola Gay, 509th Composite Group, Little Boy, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Wendover Airfield, Hiroshima, Fat Man, Nagasaki

• CAP Helped F-16s Follow Canadian Skyhawk

  The failed suicidal cross-country flight of 31-year-old Adam Leon drew a lot of media attention here in Wisconsin. When it was clear that he was approaching Madison (he never got closer than 5 miles), Governor Jim Doyle ordered the capitol evacuated Read... Posted Apr 15 2009, 05:29 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Military, Cessna 172, Adam Leon, Air National Guard, F-16 Intercept, Civil Air Patrol

• UAV Pilot Shortage & Military Intelligence

  A recent New York Times’s article, “ Drones Are Weapons of Choice in Fighting Qaeda , ” added to the mounting evidence that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are changing the face of military aviation. This is especially true in the U.S. Air... Posted Mar 24 2009, 01:05 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, Military, Pilot Training, RC models, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Reaper, Predator, U.S. Air Force, UAV, military aviation

• Share Thumbs-Up Moments With Everyone

  If you haven’t heard, the Internet and blogs like JetWhine are killing print journalism. Slowly, community journalists, everyday people with an interest in their community, are becoming our primary source of news. If you doubt this, watch TV news... Posted Mar 10 2009, 04:06 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Military, Angel Flight, Community Journalists, Corporate Angel Network, EAA Young Eagles

• EMS Helicopter Safety: First, Do No Harm

  A confirmed rotorhead, I recently invested some unexpected free time looking into the NTSB’s public hearing on Safety of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) Operations . I didn’t have the time to watch four days of video available... Posted Feb 26 2009, 07:16 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Military, PHI Air Medical, Helicopter Safety, NTSB Public Hearing, Night Vision Goggles, Helicopter Emergency Medical Services, Air Medical Safety, ThedaStar

• Finding Good News at OSH

  Reveling in good news is how I always try to start the new year, but finding it in aviation has been a challenge in the relentless headwind of layoffs, furloughs, shutdowns, and bankruptcy filings. But I did find some, in my own backyard, at OSH, better... Posted Jan 05 2009, 04:45 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Military, Wittman Regional Airport, BT-67, DC-3, Basler Turbo Conversions, Future of Aviation

• Do Pilots Still Fly for Fun?

  A good question, posed by Matt Thomas in his comment about New Book Holds Hope for Aviation’s Future . “Do they risk finding other things to do that are perhaps more fun?” he asked on the next line, referring to pilots in general and... Posted Dec 15 2008, 03:51 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Military, Kansas City Dawn Patrol, flying for fun, FAA pilot demographics, recreational flying, flight simulators, RC models

• Next-Gen Challenge: Selling Aviation

  Cessna recently lifted the lid on its next generation flight training program . After military and airline training programs have proven the efficacy of scenario-based training for decades, Cessna is finally bringing it to general aviation. Working in... Posted Nov 19 2008, 01:36 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Military, Cessna Pilot Center, SkyCatcher, scenario-based training, Skyhawk, glass-cockpit, next-generation training, niche marketing

• ACA Fights Financial Fires With Aqua-Bama

  Airframe manufacturers are dealing with the financial fires spawned by the global economic meltdown in many ways, including reorganization, furloughs, and layoffs. American Champion Aircraft is pursuing a different tact, introducing a new airplane. It’s... Posted Nov 03 2008, 01:13 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Military, American Champion Aircraft, Scout, fire bomber, aerial firefighting, High Country Explorer

• 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... Posted Sep 29 2008, 02:46 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

• 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: The Buzz, General, Blogging, EAA AirVenture, Military, Man High, Project Excelsior, Doolittle Raid, 30 seconds over Tokyo, Dick Cole, Joe Kittinger

• Where is the Best Aviation Blog?

  As much as stay awake at night wondering how many people around the globe are clicking through the stories here at Jetwhine, I know we are only one small fish in the sea of people who think they know just about everything when it comes to air travel.... Posted Jun 20 2008, 04:00 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Military

• Aerotrekking Back to Coffin Corner

  Given the world’s sorry state and aviation’s place in it, hope for the future is at the coffin corner. To help maintain that delicate balance it is natural to withdraw into–and protect–our little corner of aviation’s diverse... Posted Jun 12 2008, 04:49 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airlines, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Military, trikes, Nothing by Chance, backcountry flying, Richard Bach, Aerotrekking, barnstorming, National Geographic Adventure

• Woracle: Aviation Blogger Astounds and Mystifies

  If you haven’t read Graham Warwick’s blog - the Woracle - you’re missing something spectacular. I’m always amazed at the cutting-edge topics he covers. But maybe he has more time on his hands because the English already have a... Posted Mar 14 2008, 03:18 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, General, Blogging, sport aviation, Military