How Cheap Can You Get? Try Online for Cheap Air Tickets

Most consumers feel the airline travel is very costly. We can end up spending a fortune when we add up the various costs, such as flights, accommodation, taxes and insurance, hotel services and car hire. There are so many ways to cut back these expenses without having compromise with the... Read More

Flying With Your Dog

A pet owner must research the many requirements before taking a dog on an airplane. Different airlines have slightly different regulations, but most airlines follow the same basic set of rules in regards to flying with a dog.One universal rule is that dogs cannot fly on a plane without the... Read More

Entering Business Aviation, Part V: Tips on Finding Work

I will not pretend that this is the easiest topic to write about. In fact, my knowledge of how one finds work as a private flight attendant is based chiefly on what others have shared with me. You can find some useful tips within the many threads written on the... Read More

Making a Mechanical Manta with Material Memory Manufacturing Methods

I propose building a mechanical manta ray as a Underwater Unmanned Vehicle; UUV. The manta ray will have air tanks inside of its wings and a sound device, which will also operate a sonar and an ELF communication system. The air tanks will be flexible rubber type tanks with an... Read More

Top Ten Secrets to Saving Big Money in the Airline Flights

Do you know that some people travel around the country and abroad, for both business and pleasure, and save bundles of money in the process?They do that by using little known ways of really taking advantage of the most popular form of transportation - airline flights.They don't rely on the... Read More

De Ice Boots Preventative Care

If you have de-ice boots on your aircraft you realize that for them to last you will need to keep them in new condition. In days gone buy aviators and aircraft mechanics have used all sorts of things to keep them in mint condition. This is especially serious if you... Read More

Hypersonic or Ultrasonic Sound to Disrupt Laser Beam Attack on Commercial Airliners

In large buildings to prevent sound pollution often double paned glass is used with music or flowing air between the panes, this works very well and is sufficient to prevent the noise. Since many commercial airliners have double paned glass already if we are careful to watch the harmonics as... Read More

Jet Lag ? 5 In-flight Tips

The secret to combating jet lag, and arriving at your destination with little or no jet lag, lies in sound preparation well in advance of your date of travel. This, however, is only the foundation of your "anti jet lag" plan and all of your sound preparatory work will be... Read More

Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part III

What caused a teenager to crash an aircraft into the Bank of America Building in Tampa? It makes no sense. Read more in Part III to try to understand the causes involved in this scenario.This young many was not like everyone else, he knew it, and we failed to recognize... Read More

Inflatable Aircraft Wing Camber Modification

Every aircraft is a compromise. It is either built to fly fast or slow to land in tight distances and carry more weight. It is a jet or propeller driven craft. It costs a lot with high tech materials or it is simplistic and has less performance. Aircraft are built... Read More

Point to Point VS Spoke and Hub? Air Taxi

Boeing it is said took a big gamble in predicting the future of air travel. Instead of going bigger like Airbus and building an aircraft like the A380, the biggest airliner ever built; The Boeing Company decided to go for a more efficient smaller aircraft with better materials and better... Read More

Essential Oil Skin Care Tips for Frequent Fliers

Are you one of those people that has lots and lots of airline miles, so many that if you had a dollar for each one, you could stop working for a living? Do you know exactly where all the Auntie Anne's Pretzels are located at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport? Do... Read More

Starting an Aircraft Washing Business

So you love airplanes and you want to start an aircraft washing service? I cannot blame you, as I did the same thing. After cleaning Thousands of aircraft over the years, I have paid for my flight school, first aircraft and then started an aircraft washing franchise as a module... Read More

Automated Following Jump System for Paratroopers, AFJS

There are many problems of safety in paratrooper drops. Many times night jumps are done or drops are made into the battlespace under low visibility. This is good and bad. It is good because the enemy cannot see you as easy to kill you, but bad because you cannot see... Read More

Travel Tips:Tips for Safer flying

Flying can be an adventure, but like everything else in life, there are small risks. Even though flying is the safest way to travel in this modern age, here are some tips to minimize any unfortunate, but unlikely event of an emergency situation.? Try to only fly nonstop routingsTakeoff, climb,... Read More

Overcoming Jet Lag

Jet lag can be one of the worst, and certainly one of the most frustrating, aspects of long distance travel. Also called desynchronosis (meaning "out of time"), jet lag occurs when travellers pass through multiple time zones, arriving several hours ahead or behind their "home" time.Travelling across several time zones... Read More

Entering Business Aviation, Part I: Types of Aircraft

The jets that people fly in corporate aviation are usually a lot smaller than those found with the airlines. Exceptions to the rule are Boeing's BBJ and Airbus' Corporate Jet, both of which are based on some of the smaller types of aircraft marketed to the airlines.A corporate flight attendant... Read More

Airlines, Price Wars, and Branding

Here are some thoughts on the study of the theory of price wars as they relate to the industries like the Airlines and others. Comments on an article in Harvard Business Review in March-April edition 2000. The article was called 'How to Win a PRICE WAR'. Written by Akshay R.... Read More

Airbus A-380 is Pretty Big

You know the Airbus A-380 is so huge it takes 2 hours to load and unload and that is if you are rushing the people on and off like cattle. The aircraft holds more fuel than a Boeing 727 weighs. As a matter of fact it has more water on... Read More

Tips to Finding Really Cheap Airline Tickets

Finding really cheap airline tickets onlineLooking for a really good deal on flights? Here are some of the best strategies used to find really cheap airline tickets online.1) Really Cheap Airline Tickets: Last minute flightsOften you'll find really cheap airline tickets posted at the last minute. Airline hate having open... Read More

General Aviation Manufacturing is in the Tank; Hang On It is Going to Get Worse

Change is a constant, Outsourcing Jobs, Capital flows, Emerging Markets are a given and this includes the Aviation Manufacturing Sector as we watch the current Migration pick up speed.It appears that the technological advantage that we have here in the United States is no longer going to sustain us without... Read More

The History of the Aircraft Wash Guys, Part Two

The continuation of the history of a small service franchise business in the aviation sector; whose humble beginnings began in the middle of a recession. This proves that anything is possible and that with enough will and entrepreneurial spirit no matter what the condition of your industry sector, you can... Read More

Do Jet Lag Diets Work?

Anti jet lag diets have been around for some time now, but do they work?Perhaps the best know anti jet lag diet is the Argonne Diet, developed at the Argonne National Laboratory in 1982. Over the years thousands of people have downloaded copies of this diet online and it is... Read More

Private Jets: 4 Leaders in Fractional Flying

Fractional flying, you say. Is that division? Well, sort of. Fractional flying is where you, the customer, can own a "share" in a private jet. In most cases these shares allow you to own as much as 1/4 to as little as 1/32 of a 40 million dollar private jet.... Read More

Private Jet Ownership Indeed

Wouldn't you like to own your own private jet? Have you ever thought about it? Many of us have and you know what it is not all that expensive as you might think after all. Private jet ownership is really taking off these days. As a matter of fact manufacturers... Read More

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UPDATE 1-China's AVIC talking to engine makers after GE deal
Reuters
BEIJING, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Aviation Industry Corp of China, fresh from forming a joint venture with General Electric Co (GE.N), is in cooperation talks ...
China Commercial Aircraft plans plant in ShanghaiMid Columbia Tri City Herald
Shanghai the site for new aircraft plantBombay News

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Third Quarter Results Announced by First Aviation
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First Aviation Services Inc. (PINKSHEETS: FAVS) today announced net income of $419000 for the three months ended October 31, 2009 or $.06 per share versus a ...

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The Age
Another near disaster in Congo aviation
eTurboNews
Information just received from Goma indicates that an MD80 aircraft, apparently coming from the Congolese capital ...
Plane misses runway, lands in lavaThe Australian
Injuries as DR.Congo plane overshoots runwayAFP
Accident: Compagnie Africaine Aviation MD80 at Goma on Nov 19th 2009, overran ...The Aviation Herald
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Times Online
Norkfolk pilot 'flew without enough fuel'
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The report on the Crikey website said the plane failed "to meet the requirements of the catch-all section of Civil Aviation Order CAO 82.0 (2.4), ...
Aussie pilot who landed in shark waters hailed a heroAFP
Pilots heroes as six survive Pacific Ocean crashThe Age
Sydney pilot praised for crashing plane3News
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Federal Aviation Administration Says Flight Computers Are Working Again
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It now appears that the Federal Aviation Administration has ensured travelers that the computer glitches that caused flight cancellations and delays around ...
Aviation technician union critical of outage responsePeriscope IT
FAA or Your Car: Whose Computer Has More Muscle?ABC News
Tech Snafu Grounds Nation's FliersWall Street Journal
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guardian.co.uk
U.S. flight delays hit Atlanta airport especially hard
Los Angeles Times
Hundreds of flights around the country were canceled or delayed Thursday after a communications failure at a Federal Aviation Administration ...
Glitch snarls air traffic in latest woes for FAAThe Associated Press
FAA Computer Problem Snarls FlightsNew York Times
airtran Airways Customers Affected By Federal Aviation Administration System ...PR Newswire (press release)
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Oahu's aviation museum adds jets
Pacific Business News
The Pacific Aviation Museum in Honolulu has added five vintage aircraft to its historic collection. The jets, from the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, ...

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Aero-TV: The Aero Associations Speak – Tom Poberezny on Aviation Recruitment
Aero-News Network
On November 5th through November 7th, 2009, AOPA held their annual Aviation Summit at the Tampa Convention Center located in Tampa, Florida. ...
Hunt for new EAA president restartsGreen Bay Press Gazette

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Aviation execs to discuss state of industry
Bizjournals.com
... editor of FLYING Magazine, and will touch on the industry's business and recovery outlook and the future of aviation in Wichita. ...

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FAA Cites Software Failure in US Flight Disruptions
Bloomberg
19 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Aviation Administration blamed a four-hour software failure for causing airline delays and cancellations across the US in at ...
FAA Glitch Impacted Military Air DefenseABC News
Photo of the dayDaily Mail - Charleston
Sector Snap: Airlines lose ground amid sell-offForbes
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