http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/17/guns-on-a-plane-obama-secretly-ends-program-that-l/
EDITORIAL: Guns on a plane
Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns
Tuesday, March 17, 2009...
http://www.aviationplanning.com/asrc1.htm
Hot Flash - Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Panic In The Front Office
Airline Industry In Full Retreat?
When facing a crisis, the worst thing one can do is to panic.
But that's exactly what seems to be happening in some airline front offices. Panic results in...
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1130-full.html#197946
The Fight For Pilots Hurt By New Age 65 Rule
Now that U.S. airline pilots can fly to age 65, litigation is now moving forward to overturn wording in the 2007 law that also specifically barred some 3,000 pilots forced...
http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_ge.jsp?news_id=cmt-118p6971&feed=cmt&date=20080427
Continental Airlines Chooses Not to Merge
Sunday April 27, 5:37 PM EDT
HOUSTON, April 27, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Continental Airlines (CAL) released the following message to its...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/business/26air.html?ref=business
Continental and United Said to Be Closer to a Merger
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
Published: April 26, 2008
United Airlines and Continental Airlines are getting closer to a merger agreement and would like to wrap up a deal by the...
http://www.atwonline.com/channels/indepth/index.html
ATWOnline In-Depth
Easier said than done: Splashing cold water on the US's heated merger talk
February 18, 2008----Consolidation speculation is rampant in the world's biggest air transport market, but the widespread talk about possible...
Pilot-Optional Gulfstream 550?
There are lots of options available on a Gulfstream 550 but Boeing intends to make the flight deck crew one of them. Lacking a suitable platform of its own, the Chicago-based company has purchased one of the $43 million state-of-the-art bizjets to turn it into a...
from www.avweb.com I wonder if they found some broken Stoly bottles in the cockpit? :eek:
Close Call For Russian Cargo Plane
It was a testament to the ruggedness of the IL-76, but we’ll let others decide what it says about the crew flying it. According to a Transport Canada incident...
O'Hare Airport Workers Say They Saw UFO
United Airlines Denies Incident
http://www.click2houston.com/travelgetaways/10651376/detail.html?taf=hou
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Some United Airlines employees, some of them pilots, insist they...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2237095,00.html
Britain
The TimesJune 22, 2006
Heathrow hijackers planned to hide bombs in cameras
By Tom Baldwin and Daniel McGrory in Washington
AL-QAEDA terrorists considered using bombs and stun guns disguised as cameras and flash attachments...
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060419-110441-8567r.htm
Also implicated in attempting to supply LA gangs with AK-47's. With friends like these................
Found this on the ATW website. Its a short (1hr) presentation from Honeywell and Boeing on up coming systems changes for future all electric aircraft systems and what is being utilized for the 787. (Probably more interesting for the engineer types among us)...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/11/D8D5UA0O1.html
Jet Stolen From Fla. Winds Up Near Atlanta
Oct 11 12:14 PM US/Eastern
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.
A 10-passenger charter jet that was reported stolen from St. Augustine, Fla., was found at an airport near Atlanta, and authorities were attempting...
I'm thinking about flying in to Gatwick and making a connection to Lisbon out of Heathrow on a Monday morning.
Anyone have tips or warnings? Can it it be done with a 3 hr connect?
Basically I can sit up in first to LGW, if I connect through AMS or CDG I'll be in a middle seat back in steerage.
The latest common sense musings from Boyd: www.aviationplanning.com
Say what you will, but the guy usually right on the mark and years ahead.
Okay, Panic Is Now Acceptable Behavior...
Jet Fuel Heads For $2+ Per Gallon
That scraping sound, Captain Smith, really is an iceberg.
Watch in the...
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