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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Airport gulls
Birds have made a mess of some aircraft by flying across the flight path and being ingested in the engines, breaking the wind-shields, breaking control parts and in general scaring the bejammers out of hundreds of pilots. In June 1995, … Continue reading
Fastest way to an airline executive’s heart is with a model plane; just don’t …
NEW YORK, N.Y. – In America, businessmen shake hands. In Japan, they bow. But all over the world airline executives engage in a greeting that is all their own: the exchange of model airplanes. When airlines start flying to new … Continue reading
Aviation Explorers takes flight in Ottawa
Nick MaCally, fifth grader at Lincoln Elementary School in Ottawa, and Collin Glenn, sixth grader at Ottawa Middle School, learn how to take the propeller off a Piper Cherokee 140 aircraft April 23 at Dodson Aviation Inc., 2110 Montana Road, … Continue reading
Disrupt this: utility psych class in the digital age
The night before I climbed aboard an airplane to Chicago for Accenture’s International Utilities and Energy Conference (IUEC) this week, I found myself glued to an old episode of “Seinfeld.” I was glued to it not because it was funny … Continue reading
Used Aircraft Review: Boeing 767
Feeling cramped in your large-cabin bizjet? Maybe you need one of these. More than a thousand Boeing 767s have been delivered since the aircraft made its first flight in 1981. Its popularity with the airlines—which can stuff 200 to 304 … Continue reading
Did people fly paper airplanes before real airplanes were invented?
A kid plays with a paper airplane. He’s part of a surprisingly long tradition. (Shutterstock) The paper plane has a shockingly long history. Kids were having fun launching paper into the air decades before the Wright brothers had their first … Continue reading
The demise of the Boeing 747 is a sign of changing flight patterns
Dreamed up in another age, the 747 was in the skies before Concorde, before man reached the moon, and when the president of the United States was a child. Boeing’s most famous plane has been up there ever since, redefining … Continue reading