Model Airplanes

GLO Airlines, a New Orleans public charter airline that offers nonstop flights to Destin, Fla. among other regional destinations, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The filing is the latest development in a dispute between the airline and the company that operates its planes.

FlyGLO LLC, the airline’s parent company, filed Sunday (April 24) in federal bankruptcy court in New Orleans, asking a judge to allow it to continue offering flights beyond Thursday, the date its flight management company has said it intends to cancel its contract with the airline.

The management company claims GLO has fallen behind on payments it is owed. GLO in a Monday statement called the decision to cancel the contract “entirely unjustified” and blamed the management company for violating contract terms and providing poor service.

It is not yet clear what will happen to GLO customers who purchased tickets for flights after Thursday if a judge lets the contract dissolve. The airline’s statement sought to reassure customers its business model is sound, but offered few details as to what would happen to ticket holders who could be affected by the dispute.

Article source: http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2017/04/glo_airlines_files_bankruptcy.html

The Douglas DC-3 parked in a local hangar

Boarding the Douglas DC-3 is like returning to the era of black and white movies, when commercial aviation was making its first steps. A model of the twin-engine propeller plane, which revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s, arrived at the Macau International Airport on Sunday as part of the Breitling DC-3 World Tour.

The plane is expected to depart today to Taiwan, from where it will fly to Japan, for a one-month stint at several airshows. It will later cross the Pacific toward the US, where it will stay for part of the summer. The total length of the world tour is six months, covering 55 cities and 28 countries.

Since it took off in Geneva in March 9, exactly 77 years after it flew for the first time in 1940, the plane has made a number of stopovers at the Balkans, before it moved on to the Middle East and the Gulf states, after which it charted a course towards Greater China, showcasing in events and air shows.

The captain and owner of the DC-3, Francisco Agullo, spoke with journalists yesterday at the hangar where the airplane is parked. Besides the DC-3, Agullo – a former Swissair pilot – currently flies private jets. He has accumulated 12,000 flight hours in different types of aircrafts, including nine round the world flights, one of them with an

Article source: http://macaudailytimes.com.mo/legendary-plane-makes-macau-stopover.html

The air show returns to Fort Lauderdale this year with a new name and new aircraft.

It’s official. It’s the Ford Lauderdale Air Show, even if the papers sometimes call it the Fort Lauderdale Air Show. After all, the catchy name is what attracted Allan Young in the first place. In fact, it was his idea. 

Young is chairman of the board for the South Florida Ford Dealers, consisting of 28 dealers from Fort Pierce to the Florida Keys on the east coast, from Naples to Port Charlotte on the Gulf Coast. He is also the owner of Wayne Akers Ford in Lake Worth. The man is a born promoter. His office walls attest to his group’s community involvement. There are shots of Miami sports figures and teams, and there is a framed Miami Dolphins jersey, all representing teams with which Young has worked with at one time or another.

Indeed, it was through another major community sponsorship that Young became aware of the opportunity to be a title sponsor for this year’s revived air show. He was at a meeting with the Winterfest Boat Parade committee, of which Ford is a sponsor, when he learned that the air show was searching for a title sponsor.

It needed one. Recall that when the show was launched spectacularly in the mid-1990s, it was called the Shell Air and Sea Show per Shell Oil Company. That was a good corporate fit. Airplanes need gas. And so was the later sponsor, McDonald’s, with its wholesome family image.

Article source: https://www.bocalifemagazine.com/features/air-show-returns-south-florida-turning-heads-clouds

The air show returns to Fort Lauderdale this year with a new name and new aircraft.

It’s official. It’s the Ford Lauderdale Air Show, even if the papers sometimes call it the Fort Lauderdale Air Show. After all, the catchy name is what attracted Allan Young in the first place. In fact, it was his idea. 

Young is chairman of the board for the South Florida Ford Dealers, consisting of 28 dealers from Fort Pierce to the Florida Keys on the east coast, from Naples to Port Charlotte on the Gulf Coast. He is also the owner of Wayne Akers Ford in Lake Worth. The man is a born promoter. His office walls attest to his group’s community involvement. There are shots of Miami sports figures and teams, and there is a framed Miami Dolphins jersey, all representing teams with which Young has worked with at one time or another.

Indeed, it was through another major community sponsorship that Young became aware of the opportunity to be a title sponsor for this year’s revived air show. He was at a meeting with the Winterfest Boat Parade committee, of which Ford is a sponsor, when he learned that the air show was searching for a title sponsor.

It needed one. Recall that when the show was launched spectacularly in the mid-1990s, it was called the Shell Air and Sea Show per Shell Oil Company. That was a good corporate fit. Airplanes need gas. And so was the later sponsor, McDonald’s, with its wholesome family image.

Article source: https://www.fortlauderdaledaily.com/features/ford-lauderdale-air-show-turns-south-florida-skies-grand-spectacle

The airline cabin of the future may not only be more social for business class fliers, though. Ohayon, of Icrave, believes that airlines will try to end the anxiety over who you’ll sit next to on a flight in economy by creating mini social networks where passengers can scout out people who have similar interests and request to be seated next to like-minded passengers. He believes these kinds of online social groups might lend themselves to people meeting in airports and on the plane itself–something the startup Planely has tried to do, with apparently limited success. It might take a lot more than a social network to get people to actually talk to each other in the enclosed space of an airplane cabin.

Sorry, Economy Fliers

Sadly, there are no breakthroughs in economy class seat design on the horizon, though designers are working on making the space you do get as comfortable as possible. “Price will still be a major driver in economy class,” says White, of Seymourpowell. “That’s not going to go away.”

Price will remain important for both passengers looking for the best deal and for airlines, which eek out a 5% profit each year. Driving profit is often at odds with improving passenger experience, especially in economy class. With this in mind, Seymourpowell designed a concept called Morph, in which seat width is fully customizable and customers can pay for a wider seat width. “That’s really trying to have a space that you can sell-out

Article source: https://www.fastcodesign.com/90110646/the-future-of-flying-is-nearly-here-but-you-probably-cant-afford-it

Nearly a decade before Kim Richards’ drug arrest and her shocking interview with Dr. Phil, author Jerry Oppenheimer, in his blockbuster book, House of Hilton, documented Kim’s troubled early life, attributing much to her driven, ambitious, four-times married stage mother, Kathy Dugan. Oppenheimer’s latest book, RFK Jr and the Dark Side of the Dream will be published in September.

When Kim Richards stormed out of a sit-down with Dr. Phil yesterday, she kept hidden from him shocking secrets about her turbulent life that led to her recent embarrassing alcohol arrest, according to the 2006 book ‘House of Hilton’.

The Real Housewives star, who is Paris Hilton’s aunt, claimed that one of the reasons for her drunkenness that resulted in the confrontation with police was the stress of caring for her first husband, Monty Brinson, who is dying of cancer.

But her relationship with Brinson, scion of a supermarket fortune, was more stormy than loving.

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Mommy dearest: Kathy Dugan, here with daughters Kyle and Kim, was always at one of the good restaurant bars, like the Polo Lounge, sitting out front and always seemed to be buzzed,  an actress friend told Jerry Oppenheimer for his book. ‘You’d walk in and there she’s be just hanging on the bar and she’d be trying to pick up any guy who had any money and who would pay her tab’

Rehab: Many of Kim’s issues can be attributed to her upbringing by

Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3058279/How-Kim-Richards-boozing-gold-digging-stage-mom-forced-perform-male-friends-pushed-marry-millionaire-cheat-snag-billionaire-bestselling-author-reveals-reality-star-rehab.html