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Strangely enough, though, we haven’t heard a whisper of complaint from a planeload of New Year’s revelers who were stranded in Bali for three days. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Skywest flight left Port Hedland on New Year’s Eve and was supposed to return later that night. But a faulty warning light grounded […]

So, just how infuriating can it be to sit in an idling airliner for seven hours while the pilot waits for a break in the weather? According to Reuters, infuriating enough that six German passengers aboard the British Airways flight have filed “false imprisonment” charges against the pilot of the plane, who was trying to […]

What Airline Passengers Endure Some people will pay big bucks to fly aerobatics but we’d wager these folks just wanted to get to Pittsburgh. Nobody was reported injured after an American Airlines regional jet reportedly suffered severe roll- and yaw-control problems while en route from Dallas Tuesday evening. According to WTVQ News, the American Eagle […]

And while such unpredictable events such as 9/11, SARS or even avian flu could sewer the industry again, if things keep on a reasonably even keel, there should be above-average hiring for years to come, according to Darby. That’s because over the next 10 years, tens of thousands of airline pilots will hit the mandatory […]

Most of the new hires are with regional airlines, fractional operators and charters, which, despite the widely publicized problems of the big airlines, are, according to Darby, doing just fine, thank you. “They’re growing, they’re profitable and they’re hiring,” he said. But it’s not only the bottom half of the market that’s looking for pilots. […]

Plenty Of Flying Jobs Available So, Independence Air is going out of business today, most of the big airlines are in bankruptcy or close to it and thousands of airline pilots have been furloughed, but the job market for pilots hasn’t looked this good in five years. Kit Darby, who runs Air, Inc., a publishing […]

The prototype of the Dyanlifter, a 120-foot-long, two-seat blimp/airplane hybrid, is complete and ready for flight testing, its inventors said last week. The airship will not be lighter-than-air but will carry part of its load via aerodynamic lift generated by the wings and hull. This will make it possible for the ship to land like […]

Little twins may be fine for flying around Planet Earth, but to get to the International Space Station, you need something beefier. The Russians have been working for a while on a next-generation rocket-launched Space Shuttle called Clipper, and are hoping to get a funding boost from the European Space Agency in 2006 to move […]

A New Light Twin In The Works In Italy Tecnam, an aviation company based in Italy, has announced that it will build a new — high wing — light twin called the P2006T, which will be fully FAR 33 certificated and sell for under $300,000. First flight is scheduled for September 2006, with first customer […]

This year, Glenn Prestwich played Santa Claus for the fifth time, and said it’s been “very rewarding.” Angel Flight has coordinated the event with the tribal elders, who meet the airplanes when they arrive and distribute the gifts to families. This year, the aircraft ranged from a Mooney and a couple of Cirruses to a […]