A quick post from New York City. The BEA has cranked up again this year and a lot of exciting aviation books are out there (mine included).
I have met with some great Agents and Authors and hope to push my book to the next level here in the USA. Time to get back [...]

As a young boy I learned the lesson the hard way. My Uncle and mentor, Lieutenant Larry Menzies, was killed in an S-2F Tracker while flying for the Naval Reserves. He had just gotten off active duty, while attached to carriers he had flown combat missions in Viet Nam and according to family [...]

In fact it has made a third category for the first time. After falling off the best sellers list 7A is back with a VENGEANCE (small shameless plug, Vengeance is the title of my second book). #28 on the Burma list, #43 on War in the Pacific and for the first time I [...]

RAA President Roger Cohen has softened the talking points and is taking a more conciliatory “healing” approach to the Colgan Air 3407 incident, as evidenced by his quote below:

Here is an old airline joke about your probationary year at a major airline.
Question: “Why don’t you ever eat a crew meal on your last leg?”
Answer: “Because your family will smell food on your breath when you get home.”

The commuter industry talking points have been disseminated: Roger Cohen in the BBC video summarizes; “they shouldn’t be tired.” How insightful; thank you for that in-depth analysis Mr. Cohen. He then emphatically states that it is up to the pilots, “they hire professionals”; of course they pay them slightly more than a [...]

The Commuter Airline industry is no different from any other or modern life for that matter. If you want to get to the root of causal action or motivation; follow the money. I remember when I was being read into “Black Projects” at VX-30 years ago, I asked “what are they working on [...]

The BBC (British Broadcast Corp) has done an in-depth story on the commuter airline industry in the USA. In it they question the safety of the industry. It is pretty well done and worth a look.

The NTSB hearings continue and Colgan Air executives are currently on the hot seat. It is not going well for them. We now know what happened (inaccordance w/earlier post); the why is next on the list and that will play out via agenda driven debate for years. Below is a summary interwoven [...]