A research study conducted by Hotelscheap.org found the Ten Must-Have Travel Apps, and FlightAware was ranked as the 3rd best Travel App. See the ranked list in a nicely wrapped Infographic here: http://new-york.hotelscheap.org/top-ten-travel-apps (new-york.hotelscheap.org) Meer...
This 747 is sitting in a boneyard in Mojave, CA awaiting scrapping. On May 23rd, 2012 the area experienced extreme winds of 70+ miles per hour due to a low pressure zone. Without the weight of its engines, the slightly tail heavy 747 tries to take to the skies one last time. The next day the plane was found to have also rotated about 45 degrees from its original position. (www.youtube.com) Meer...
Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed "severe storm sentinels" above stormy skies to help researchers and forecasters uncover information about hurricane formation and intensity changes. (www.aircraftpilots.com) Meer...
Air India is set to refuse their first expected 787 Dreamliner due to their current negotiation dispute with Boeing. (australianaviation.com.au) Meer...
Chinese airframer Comac will be the biggest threat to Boeing and Airbus and most likely to succeed in developing a program comparable to those offered by the duopoly, says Jim Albaugh, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. (www.aviationweek.com) Meer...
Singapore Airline's (SIA) newest budget airline, Scoot, has named its first two aircraft following a successful Facebook campaign. With some 10,000 submissions, Mr Campbell said: "The response was fantastic, and yielded a huge variety of potential names." (news.asiaone.com) Meer...
Alaska Airlines on Thursday unveiled its new "Aztec Plane," a Bombardier Q400 turboprop painted in the colors of the San Diego State University Aztecs. The 76-seat aircraft, which will fly for Alaska Airlines regional affiliate Horizon Air, is the ninth to be painted for a university located in an Alaska Airlines market. (www.aircraftpilots.com) Meer...
SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger commercial spaceship owned by Virgin Galactic, has been cleared by the Federal Aviation Administration to begin test flights beyond the atmosphere. Spaceship builder Scaled Composites received an experimental launch permit from the FAA on May 23. (news.discovery.com) Meer...
The first commercial mission to the International Space Station ended Thursday with the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashing down after a flight the company's founder declared a "grand slam." The Dragon drifted beneath parachutes to the surface of the Pacific Ocean, about 560 miles off Baja California, on Thursday morning. It hit the water about a mile from its target. (www.cnn.com) Meer...
Verne Troyer Multitalented actor Verne Troyer has laughed off reports he was trapped in an airplane toilet for 20 minutes because he could not reach the door handle. (www.starpulse.com) Meer...
Houston City Council today voted overwhelmingly to expand Hobby Airport for international flights, rejecting our argument that dividing the City’s international air service is the wrong decision for Houston’s future. (www.click2houston.com) Meer...
Six UAV test sites are up for grabs -- and state governments are eager to get their hands on them. More than a dozen state governments across the country are scrambling to get into the drone business with the expectation that unmanned aviation will create new jobs in the near future. (www.salon.com) Meer...
But if you did, here’s what you’d learn: That almost every step the agency has taken to protect us from airborne terrorists has either been ineffective or wasteful, or both. And that they’ve got the data to prove it. One Freedom to Travel member, who also happens to be a tenured mathematics professor, applied something called Bayes Rule and the concept of Base Rate Fallacy to the TSA’s behavior-detection methods. Stay with me, here. It revealed that even if TSA’s current screening practices were… (www.elliott.org) Meer...
May 30, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A 747 airliner clipped the tail of a regional jet at O'Hare International Airport this afternoon causing some damage to the aircraft. (abclocal.go.com) Meer...
May 31, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A regional jet landed safely at O'Hare International Airport Thursday morning after reporting mechanical issues. (abclocal.go.com) Meer...
Air New Zealand, the launch customer for Boeing’s larger 787-9 variant, says the aircraft appears to be on track for first delivery in the second quarter of 2014. (www.aviationweek.com) Meer...
Investigators learned that the planes involved in Monday afternoon's mid-air crash in Fauquier County, near Washington DC, were registered to employees of the FAA and the NTSB. Canadian TSB invited to investigate the crash. (www.nbcwashington.com) Meer...
Sit back,Relax and Listen to the Tunes of Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey. The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner was the first fully pressurized airliner (www.youtube.com) Meer...
Alaska Airlines announced today it will launch nonstop service between San Diego and Orlando, Fla., beginning Oct. 11, 2012. The carrier will fly between the two cities five times a week. (splash.alaskasworld.com) Meer...
A man released from jail on Memorial Day wound up boarding a plane without a ticket on Tuesday, San Diego Harbor Police said. United Airlines flight 6323 was bound for Los Angeles from San Diego International Airport when flight attendants counted an extra passenger aboard the plane. (overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com) Meer...
A single-engine, home-built Prowler Jaguar crashed immediately after taking off around 11 a.m., FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said. (abclocal.go.com) Meer...
