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As AOPA’s Summit draws to a close today, I’m finally catching a breather and looking over my notes. Yes, the show was smaller than in past years, at least in terms of exhibitor numbers. It’s hard to judge attendance-there were moments when I couldn’t navigate the aisles in the convention center and moments when they […]

Well, those poor sods over at Delta who landed their B767 (with 193 aboard) on (active) taxiway M at ATL after being cleared to land on runway 27R in the pre-dawn of October 19 sure had one thing going for them — what the pilots at Northwest were about to do on October 21 to […]

Anyone who has ever flown a long cross-country in an airplane knows that the cabin turns into a disorganized mess of charts, water bottles, headsets and snack sacks. Why is that? Give us a good reason and we’ll send you a hat. Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that […]

As the Northwest Flight 188 saga continues to unfold in standard leak-it-to-the-media fashion, we were treated over the weekend with the convincing denial by the First Officer that neither he nor the Captain were sleeping. I say “convincing” because he looked sincere to me. He offered no other details, nor would I expect him to. […]

Sometime later today or early next week, we should learn of the results of what has to be the biggest slam dunk investigation in the history of aviation: Whether the crew of Northwest Flight 188-which sailed 150 miles past its destination Wednesday night– was snoozing or discussing airline policy.Either way, both of these guys are […]

One company that’s conspicuously absent from this year’s NBAA convention is Eclipse. In years past, Eclipse erected lavish displays that tended to dominate the skyline at all of the major shows. This year, it looks as if the new management is focused on getting the company righted, modifying the existing fleet and then hammering out […]

Trade shows like the NBAA Meeting and Convention running this week in Orlando often have a press day, during which companies make announcements about new products and present assessments of the coming year. Not a lot of new products at NBAA this year and the market assessments aren’t especially rosy. In fact, as I toured […]

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Leave it to the bizarre to bring out the best and worst in all of us. And this week’s boy-lost-in-a-balloon is about as bizarre as it gets. Fortunately, the story had a happy if somewhat wacky ending, but at least no one got hurt. (It could’ve been worse.)Let me dispense with one thing right away. […]

For better or worse, live news events are now broadcast in real-time not only to those sitting at home in front of their TVs, but also to everyone working on a wifi’d computer anywhere in the world, or even carrying an iPhone. This week’s breathless coverage of the runaway “balloon” in Colorado, which CNN reporters […]