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Flying Club May Resuscitate Flying Career

2012-02-09T02:00:44Z

CLEAR! TV doctors bark this sharp-elbowed warning before they shock a restive heart back to a regular rhythm. It is also the warning pilots issue to bystanders before they energize an airplane’s air processer. Seemingly disassociated warnings, several Read More......(read more)

Jetwhine Tries to Out-Cranky the Cranky Flier

2012-02-05T19:26:55Z

I’m made quite a career out of whining about the aviation industry, but even I need someone’s shoulder to moan on every so often. As I sit here in a hotel room in Bordeaux trying to get back to the states from France using an American/Iberia Read More......(read more)

Signs of New Aviation Era are Unmistakable

2012-01-31T02:30:14Z

From aviation’s infancy, the US military has been a leading source of aerial innovations and educator of those who put those winged aviation innovations to work. With the end of each conflict, pilots, technicians, and engineers used their training and Read More......(read more)

Will Aviation Biofuel be New Farm Subsidy?

2012-01-23T03:00:20Z

First thing last Monday morning I read that US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was scheduled to hold an hour-long meeting with aviation officials from Boeing, Honeywell, and United Airlines later that day at Boeing HQ. The announced agenda Read More......(read more)

Aviation: It’s ALWAYS About The Passengers

2012-01-19T15:51:31Z

Last Saturday was not a good day for transportation, but for once the bad news was not about aviation. An immense cruise ship — the Costa Concordia — capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the west coast of Italy where rocks near the shore Read More......(read more)

Will Army Drones Spark Interservice Rivalry?

2012-01-12T02:00:19Z

Wandering through a Google collection of aviation news, Combat Aviation Brigade Welcomes a New Unit, New Aircraft , grabbed my attention. I’m a dedicated rotorhead, helicopters comprise the majority of the US Army’s fleet, and I was hoping to learn about Read More......(read more)

A Monkey in Our Subscription Works

2012-01-11T17:04:41Z

A college professor of mind told me a story years ago — OK … MANY years ago — about how solving one problem often creates another. Boy … did our switch from Feedburner to Mail Chimp subscriber software — not to mention my Read More......(read more)

Our Monkey Speaks About Your Jetwhine Subscription

2012-01-09T20:00:34Z

In case today’s title has you wondering, don’t worry. We haven’t decided to farm our content production out to a cheap, new labor source. In 5 and a half years of writing Jetwhine, the world has continued to evolve around us although Read More......(read more)

VOR Days Numbered in FAA Proposal

2012-01-03T16:00:12Z

In a general sense, I knew that NextGen would be the end of the VORs that have reliably led aviators for decades. But 10 days before Christmas, the retirement of these familiar white cones is much more real. That’s when the FAA published its request for Read More......(read more)

Looking Bach at the Joy of Simple Flight

2011-12-20T04:00:34Z

An old-school reader, annually I must winnow my collected ink-on-paper titles to make shelf room for Christmas newcomers. As they have for decades, the works of Richard Bach survive every purge. Like many others, I met Richard through the pages of Jonathan Read More......(read more)

Pitch & Power and the Margin of Error

2011-12-10T18:18:40Z

A recent issue of AOPA’s Flight School Business included this story: FAA Updates CFI Renewal Clinic Guidelines . It referenced the updated advisory circular that covers FIRCs and noted that the FAA added angle of attack (AoA) to the list of core subjects Read More......(read more)

Commercial Curiosity Reveals High-Flying Volunteer Space Program

2011-12-06T04:00:44Z

Curiosity often costs me a lot of sleep. Tonight I saw that TV commercial about the guys who captured some cool, outer space video using a weather balloon. So Google and I went looking for them. I found JP Aerospace . I don’t know if they did the commercial Read More......(read more)

AA Pilots: Bankruptcy is YOUR Fault

2011-11-30T21:18:14Z

From Paris – There’s no small amount of irony that AMR, parent of American Airlines and American Eagle, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection – a move certain to save the carrier millions over the next few years – only a day before 2,000,000 Read More......(read more)

Unmanned & Automated Aircraft: Are We Getting Too Smart for Our Own Good?

2011-11-28T16:15:55Z

Serving the military in Afghanistan According to the The Daily Planet , the blog of Air & Space Smithsonian, in November troops in Afghanistan will likely be resupplied by the K-Max, an automated cargo helicopter. The video is from a test earlier Read More......(read more)

Boeing Flight Test Engineers Get Creative

2011-11-21T20:00:21Z

Test pilots and flight test engineers are an amazing and interesting group of people. But they are deadly serious about their work because focus and attention to detail preserves not only their lives, but those who go aloft in the aircraft they are testing Read More......(read more)