Storms in the so-called Golden Triangle, the corners of which are New York, Atlanta and Chicago have caused a lot of air travelers to hunker down at the airport, or return to wherever they came from with plans to try to fly tomorrow.
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All Airplanes All the Time – Happy in the Golden Triangle
ATC simulator at FAA Center in Oklahoma City Just a few days after taking the Flight Safety Foundation to task for publishing what can only be considered outrageously inaccurate statistics in 2007 regarding airport ramp events, I have to commend the Foundation’s present boss for his excellent commentary today on the future of air traffic control in the United States. William Voss, writing for CNN , does the seemingly impossible, explaining the nation’s air traffic control system and its hot subtopic, Next Gen, in a way that ordinary users of the system can surely understand
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ATC – Kinda’ High Tech/Low Tech and Always Will Be
NTSB phot Well we are just a coupla’ aviation writers riding a bus together in Tulsa, Oklahoma today and talking about how Southwest Flight 812 zipped open in flight on April 1st, when suddenly our collective memories zeroed in on what could be a coincidence, or could be something more. Lori Ranson , Air Transport Editor at Flight Global and I were discussing the latest news from the National Transportation Safety Board that preliminary examination of a four foot plus section of the fuselage that burst open at thirty-four thousand feet showed a number of misshapen and inconsistently aligned rivet holes. Well of course, the investigation is the NTSB’s party, but a lot of armchair investigators ( including me ) have been all over Southwest , suggesting that its practice of fast turnarounds and short hops may be putting more cycle stress on its 737s than other airlines.
Etihad destroyed in Toulouse photo- Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses If there’s one thing you can count on in aviation it is that every aspect of it is a lot more complicated than you think.
Photo courtesy FAA When the call came in to the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center that the soundtrack to the movie Cleaner was being broadcast on the radio frequency, here’s what the FAA supervisor had to say to the two men watching the film.
I have this image in my brain and I can’t shake it.
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Oh, the Horror of Being an Aviation Writer
See the previous post on this subject here Stand by because in a matter of minutes, you may start seeing photos from the latest airport ramp event; a catering truck that clipped the wing of a Southwest 737 at Bradley International Airport this morning.
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A380 Collision Mirrors Plane vs. Plane Bout From Years Ago
Mainichi Daily News There was a real and a metaphorical cry of ” Play Ball ” in Sendai, Japan today. At the heavily damaged Sendai Airport in the heart of the earthquake-hit region, Japan Airlines Flight 4721 marked the new opening of the airport to commercial service at 8:00 this morning
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Play Ball! Opening Season for Airport and Baseball in Japan
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