Model Airplanes

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado — Aviation industry leaders attending the 23rd annual Boyd Group International Aviation Forecast Summit got a glimpse of the future Saturday: Boom Supersonic presented a model of a test aircraft expected to lead to the return of speedy intercontinental travel.

And the head of the Colorado-based Boyd Group, aviation expert Mike Boyd, believes the plane could be game-changing for Las Vegas.

“A big chunk of them (Las Vegas visitors) are coming in to spend a lot of money,” Boyd said. “Do you think MGM Grand or Wynn wouldn’t want to charter an airplane like this for their high-rollers? In a New York second.”

Blake Scholl, who designed the aircraft and founded Boom in September 2014, said his airliner would be able to fly from Washington D.C. to London in 3½ hours instead of the more than seven hours it currently takes. San Francisco to Hawaii would take 2½ hours instead of five. Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles could be completed in just under seven hours instead of just under 15.

Scholl’s whole premise for the 55-passenger airliner he hopes to get off the ground by 2025 is “removing the barriers to experiencing the planet” by transporting people in half the time it currently takes.

Baby boom

At a hangar at Centennial Airport in suburban Denver, early arrivals for the two-day Boyd conference saw a model of the XB-1, the first independently developed supersonic jet — and history’s fastest civil aircraft.

The XB-1 and Boom’s airliner will be flown at Mach 2.2 — 1,451

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It was designed to become the grande dame of aviation, an enormous modern plane that could seat 544 passengers – 853 if you squeezed people in – on two decks, replacing the venerable Boeing 747 with a new standard of luxury in flight.

Just 11 years later – almost a nanosecond in the life of a commercial airplane – two Airbus 380s can’t find a home and are about to be broken up and sold for parts.

The A-380 may still be the future of aviation – Airbus makes that argument – or it may be the relic of an era from which aviation has spun forward with startling speed. But there is no question that the giant aircraft is hanging by a thread after it was first delivered in 2007 with fanfare that suggested it was the Next Great Thing.

Moreover, what happens to the largest commercial aircraft on Earth may reflect an evolution in air travel caused, to put it most simply, because smaller planes can fly longer distances.

If you live in a big city, which is pretty much any city that is home to two or more major professional sports franchises, it’s a safe bet you’re in a hub for at least one airline, and maybe several.

Most of the rest of America is in a spoke city.

The hub system is one reason a flight from Boston to Denver might

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PENDER COUNTY — Michael McWhorter was keeping an eye on President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign countries — and retaliatory responses from other countries — when he received some bad news last week.

McWhorter, the owner of Mojotone, a guitar and amplifier maker employing 68 people at a 40,000-square-foot facility in Burgaw, was ready to say in a telephone interview on Aug. 10 that he hadn’t yet seen any impact from the tariffs, but was monitoring the situation.

Then the call came.

“I got a price increase from our chassis manufacturer,” McWhorter said. “They raised their prices 16 percent.”

Will Trump’s decision to enact tariffs on some of the country’s biggest trading partners and the responses from those sovereign states be a boon to the Wilmington area, a blip that has no impact, or a devastating blow?

“Can I answer that question in 50 years?” said Adam Jones, professor of economics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW).

Since January, Trump has enacted a wide variety of tariffs on China, the European Union, Mexico and Canada. They include a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports — a move the president said was made to respond to longstanding trade imbalances, force other countries to balance trade and to boost the U.S. steel industry.

“I think that’s the prism the president views this through,” said U.S. Rep. David Rouzer, R-N.C., whose district includes the Wilmington region and who has supported Trump’s position on tariffs. “He believes the United States has

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In what is widely regarding as the preeminent aviation event of the year, AirlineGeeks and American Airlines held the third annual AAviationDay on Friday to promote the beauty of aviation to adoring enthusiasts around the world. The yearly event is planned around National Aviation Day, a national observation day started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to honor Orville Wright’s birthday on Aug. 19.

This exclusive behind the scenes look at the inner workings took place at 10 airports this year, including New York-JFK, New York-LGA, London-Heathrow, Miami, Phoenix Sky Harbor Los Angeles, Chicago-O’Hare, Washington-National, Charlotte and Philadelphia, as well as American’s headquarters in Dallas, American’s maintenance facility in Tulsa, and Envoy’s headquarters in Dallas.

“Our 130,000 team members take great pride in caring for more than 500,000 customers across the globe each day,” said Chairman and CEO Doug Parker. “We’re thrilled to showcase their important work for the third year in a row with a group of young enthusiasts whose passion for aviation may eventually lead them to careers with American.”

Here we break down the day’s events.

Heathrow Airport

AAviationDay began across the pond at London’s Heathrow Airport due to time zone differences with AirlineGeeks’ James Dinsdale guiding his group of participants through Terminal 3, where most oneworld carriers including American operate out of.

The first stop on the tour was the Flagship Lounge and Admirals Club in the departure level of Terminal 3 where the group received

Article source: https://airlinegeeks.com/2018/08/19/aaviationday-2018-recap/