Last week I went up with one of my partners in our Beech Musketeer N1167M, it was cleansing! After dealing with publishing, union, company and day to day BS, it was nice to be able to escape, “The surly bounds”. Joe and I had a great time on a beautiful evening in St. [...]

Westjet Airline, a Canadian LCC, deferred orders for 16 Boeing 737 aircraft shortly after the CEO of Southwest Airline (SWA) announced that they were “seriously considering” flying to Canada, Mexico and Caribbean markets by 2011.

Here we go again; another schedule and another outsourcing plant has to bought for the Boeing 787 program. I’m sounding like a broken record so I’ll let others have a word; This from Design News:

US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said;

SWAPA released details of their negotiations with Frontiers pilot union FAPA; they are listed below:

The latest edition of the Flight Journal magazine has a picture of me and two buds in old F-4 Phantoms. I opened it up and was surprised to see a blast from the past; three F-4 Phantoms from VX-30, in column formation. I’m in the lead, Steve “Icky” Crane is dash two and [...]

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly announced that the airline was “seriously considering” operating in the Caribbean, Canadian and Mexico markets by 2011. He also said that they had no interest in acquiring a regional partner stating;

Whispered rumors are coming out of Seattle;

BEA, the French Aviation Investigative Agency has called off the search for AF-447’s black boxes. The Airbus 330-200 crashed into the Atlantic May 31st. It had automatically sent a series of failure codes (24 in 15 minutes) to Air France maintenance via the aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS). These codes seemed [...]