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Brian Lusk is the Corporate Historian for Southwest Airlines and a long time airline veteran. He writes for Southwest’s blog, Nuts about Southwest and Tweets as @blogboy. We talk with Brian about preserving airline history, the Frontiers of Flight Museum, and Southwest at AirVenture 2011.
The week’s aviation news:
- AMR in sale-leaseback deal on up to 35 narrowbodies
- Delta Cuts Number of Flights to Small Cities in Midwest
- Cessna talking with Chinese company about developing business jet
- Congressman Invites Obama to Wichita to see the Industry
- Known Traveler Passenger Screening Pilot
Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron have their Australia Desk report. Be sure to listen to the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, and follow the show on Twitter at @pcdu. Steve’s at @stevevisscher and Grant at @falcon124.
This week on Across the Pond, Pieter Johnson talks with Gareth Stringer Deputy Editor of Global Aviation Resource (@gaviationr) about The Hanger, a social media portal for all those interested in aviation. Gareth is @Gareth_Stringer on Twitter.
Mentions:
- The Delta Heritage Museum
- Will the A380 fly for U.S. airlines?
- Speyers in Peru
- Ansett AN22 Flight Deck 14 June 1987
- Thromby Air
- What do you want from Oshkosh 2011?
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Opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. You can find his great music at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.
I can confirm that Ansett had B767s with a flight engineer’s station having spent a fun 1/2 hour on the cockpit way back chatting with the crew. The engineer took me through his systems and, basically, it was all the EFIS screens plus a bit more. Even he was willing to admit there wasn’t much need for him on that aircraft.
Thanks for the podcast, as usual I enjoyed it a lot… except when it came to Aircraft maker choice. Now I do respect your opinions even if disappointed by them. Speaking as an Australasian, I think you’re lucky to have a commercial Airplane industry at all but Boeing is all you have left. A lack of support from within America will eventually lead to no domestic manufacturer and we’ll all be stuck with trash talking Airbus salesmen as the only choice. Now I understand Rob Mark didn’t get to pilot a 747-8 so I know where his loyalty lies. He probably still eats “French Fries”. Maybe some thought should go to Rob’s “Union allies” and what they are going to do for jobs post Boeing?
We have learned the sad news that Brian Lusk has died suddenly. There is a memorial blog at Nuts About Southwest:
http://www.blogsouthwest.com/blog/flashback-fridays-farewell-friend
Deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Brian.