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The recently proposed purchase of US Airways by United Airlines (UAL) opens many interesting questions for the airlines’ consumers, shareholders and employees. First and foremost, United and US Airways management will tell the world and the financial community how much synergistic benefit this merger will bring to the combined company. You will hear how revenues […]

It’sa Friday evening at the virtual airport and things are spooling down. Severalairplanes have departed with families heading out for the weekend. The studentshave pretty well finished up and I’ve plopped down in one of the big chairs tomake some notes on conversations I had over the last few hours. On arriving at the airport […]

Recently a Beech/Raytheon Baron 58TC crashed in New Jersey, killing four. Although it will be a long time before investigators release their findings on the final causes of the tragedy, early reports said a friend of the Baron’s owner was flying the airplane. Regardless of the cause of the accident, this brings to mind a […]

Journalism school educators, real-world experienced though they were, couldn’t hold a candle to the mercilessness of a crusty, curmudgeonly desk editor dryly intoning: “Where’s the story? I’m through the second graph and don’t know why I should read this.” So here it is: Bill Sandman and his gang at M-20 Turbos LLC have a winner […]

Barbara Erickson London was bornJuly 1, 1920, in Seattle, Wash. Halfway through college she enrolled in theCivilian Pilot Training program. She was a natural pilot and workedquickly through her commercial and instructor’s ratings. She stayed at theschool and trained other CPT and Naval Transport Service students. In 1942, with the war in fullswing, she joined […]

Wepreviously discussed the subject of flying by “sight picture” asopposed to “flying by the numbers.” Now we will undertake to considerall the sensory cues that a pilot uses in manipulating the controls of anairplane and making the machine do what he or she wants it to do (or, at leastkeeping it from doing that which […]

It’s a cold November Friday evening. I amstanding in the baggage area after deplaning a Boeing 737 at Denver’s InternationalAirport. Could it be that I can actually learn the basics of flying Boeing’s most prolificjet in just two days? I am asking myself why I had abandoned my wife, pregnant with our soon to arrive […]

Let’s get one thing straight right off. Texas is a big state. Big. The state motto is “Everything Is Bigger in Texas” and folks there are dead serious when they say it. Another motto is “Don’t Mess With Texas.” They mean that, too. I spent the longest two years of my life one day driving […]

AVweb Special Report: Air Race Classic 2000 – Sands to the Sea Flying At Full Throttle Only one thing is certain when 102 women climb into 51 airplanes in Tucson, Ariz., on a June day – in blazing 110-degree heat – and race toward the cool sea breezes of Hyannis, Mass., more than 2,000 nautical […]

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