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Aviation superfans flock to quirky Delta garage sale

ATLANTA — Next to the world’s busiest airport, a line snakes through a parking lot that leads to an unassuming warehouse.

As the clock strikes 9 a.m., Judy Bean proudly waves her arms, proclaiming “Let the games begin, come on in!” Eager shoppers flooded in.

The excitement is over a monthly flea market of sorts. But if you take a closer look, you’ll see the items all have something in common: the branding of Atlanta’s most famous airline.

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Aviation superfans have been flocking to the Delta Surplus Sale since 1995, snagging items ranging from $2 CO2 cartridges to $3 t-shirts, $5 Sam Adams cut-outs and $225 airplane seats. It’s a sort of garage sale for airplane parts and proceeds benefit the Delta Flight Museum. Last year, the monthly sales brought in $100,000.

The list of items is endless.

There’s a new quirky item on every shelf – shoppers can choose from soup bowls, pins, antique timetables, food menus from flights, fashion runways, furniture, drink carts and airplane parts – all items retired or deemed as surplus from one of the largest global airlines that sees more than 180 million passengers annually.

“If [Delta] has something they need to get rid of, they contact me,” said event manager, Judy Bean.

Article source: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/plane-parts-clothing-cutlery-aviation-superfans-flock-to-quirky-delta-surplus-sale

Concerned pilots confronted Boeing over safety issues with the 737 Max 8 jet after the Lion Air disaster – four months before the second deadly crash in Ethiopia, a new audio recording reveals.

In the weeks following the deadly crash 737 Max 8 jet in Indonesia back in October, American Airlines pilots called a meeting to press Boeing executives to urgently address a series of safety issues.

The call for action, which could have required the best-selling aircraft model to be temporarily grounded, was made during a November 27 meeting between the American Airlines pilots union and officials from the aircraft manufacturer.

Pilots voiced a particular concern about the jet’s MCAS anti-stall system during the conference, but Boeing executives resisted, insisting they didn’t want to rush out a fix and they believed pilots would be capable of handling any glitches in the system.

Weeks after a Lion Air flight crashed in October, American Airline pilots urged Boeing to address safety concerns regarding the new MCAS anti-stall system (pictured: AA Boeing 737 Max 8 takes off from JFK, March 2011)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7032007/Newly-surfaced-audio-reveals-AA-pilots-union-pilots-confronted-Boeing-Lion-Air-crash.html

PARRSBORO, N.S. —

It’s a noise that woke many in Parrsboro in the early morning hours of July 5, 1919.

Some feared an air raid, even though the First World War had been over for nearly a year, while others at first thought it was a UFO. Instead, it was a massive Handley Page Atlantic four-engine bomber en route from the colony of Newfoundland to the United States – and it was in trouble.

Kerwin Davison, who is a member of the Parrsborough Shore Historical Society, has long been fascinated about the stories that have been passed down through time about the emergency landing.

With the 100th anniversary of that event approaching, he decided he wanted to use his talents to help commemorate the event.

Since last September, the 86-year-old Parrsboro resident has been building a model of an engine that would’ve been used by the aircraft that was designed and built as a First World War bomber that never entered service before the war ended in November 1918.

“We’re doing the 100-year commemoration this summer and I thought it would be a great idea to build one of the four Rolls Royce engines that would’ve been on that aircraft,” Davison said.

It was very early on a July morning in 1919 when many Parrsboro resident were awoken by the sound of a four-engine bomber circling the

Article source: https://www.trurodaily.com/news/parrsboro-celebrating-100th-anniversary-of-handley-page-atlantic-emergency-landing-311513/