Airplane Geeks - Episode 112 - Airline Security [99:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1460)

Our guest this episode is Fred Gevalt, founder of The Air Charter Guide and a bit of a political activist, having successfully sued the FAA in 1998 on behalf of his air charter constituency. Fred’s a pilot, he’s built airplanes himself, and he flies aircraft for business and recreation. Fred is also the executive producer of a new documentary film titled “Please Remove Your Shoes” which takes a critical look at airport and airline security, both pre and post September 11.

The week’s aviation news:

• 787 first delivery delayed to mid-Q1 2011
• Boeing May Risk More Penalties After Sixth Delay on Dreamliner
• U.S. Approves Merger of United and Continental
• Mexicana to Suspend All Flights by Tomorrow After Last Week’s Acquisition
• Aeromexico offers discounts for Mexicana customers
• Future of Aviation Advisory Committee

Mentions:

• Bruce Schneier – Schneier on Security, a blog covering security and security technology.
• Desert Pilot Podcast

Thanks to special guest Steve Frischling from http://www.flyingwithfish.com/.

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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/.

 

 Airplane Geeks - Episode 111 - Airline Revenue Management [92:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3210)

Guest Jesse Ziglar works for a large airline in revenue management. He was previously with DHL Express, and he interned with Delta Air Lines in schedule planning. Jesse got his private pilot license at Peter O. Knight Airport in Tampa, but went on to earn an under graduate degree in Aviation Management (With Flight) and his flight training ending with commercial, multi-engine, and instrument licenses. Jesse blogs at Airtransparency and has a few things to say about the need for more creativity in the airlines.

The week’s aviation news:

• F-15 Scramble after the Cessna 180
• American Airlines rolls out $19-to-$39 fee for front seats in coach
• JetBlue’s All-You-Can-Jet passes sell out again
• US Airways Grows LaGuardia at Delta’s Expense
• Dreamliner’s engine fails test in England
• BA Launches Engineering Apprenticeship

Mentions:

• The 1940 Air Terminal Museum
• Swelblog

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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/.

F-15 photo by Paul Filmer. Find his aviation photography at http://skippyscage.com/.

 

 Airplane Geeks - Episode 110 - Social Media in Aviation [97:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3111)

Guest Ashley Moore is Founder and President of The Aviation PR Group, which helps aviation businesses find their niche audience through marketing, public relations and communications. She’s an Embry-Riddle graduate, was associate editor for Professional Pilot Magazine, and she worked for NATA representing the interests of GA airports, FBOs and other aviation businesses.

We also have a special appearance by our new listener Harriat. We touch on just a few of her many aviation adventures.

The week’s aviation news:

• JetBlue memo questions flight attendant’s motive
• Southwest May Add Bigger 737 Jet for Busiest Routes
• Delta airline unveils option for customers to book flights on Facebook
• 5 social media lessons for Air Canada
• Russia, NORAD complete joint air defense drills
• GCI executive recalls plane crash that killed Ted Stevens
• Will pilotless aircraft be safer in flight?

Mentions:

• Speculation over delay of Air Force tanker contracts heats up – An interview with Richard Aboulafia

To listen to Podapalooza 2010 from EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, view event photos, and see all the aviation podcasts represented, visit these sites:

• Pilots Journey Podcast
• Mile High Flyers Podcast
• Student Pilot Podcast

Winners of the World Airport Data iPhone app giveaway:

• Kevin Heistermann
• Ben Stephens
• Stuart Stevenson

Listeners Harriet and Micah taken before their second helicopter flight out in Alberta in 2009:

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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/.

 

 Airplane Geeks - Episode 109 - Plane Gabbing with Gavin [103:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3431)

Guest Gavin Werbeloff is a long time aviation enthusiast who tweets as travel_buddha. He’s active on the online aero community, initially through fleetbuzz and then flyertalk, and he’s written a few pieces for travelcrisis.com.

The week’s aviation news:

• Only Two Bids for KC-X — US Aerospace/Antonov is OUT
• Report: Skywest might be interested in Comair
• Regional airlines SkyWest, ExpressJet agree to join
• July traffic rose 3.4 pct at Southwest Airlines
• Airbus A350 gets Asian boost as Cathay endorses jet
• Zimbabwe officials spark ‘unnecessary panic’ over London to Harare plane ‘accident drill’
• School Launches Aging Aircraft Maintenance Site

Mentions:

• Aging Aircraft Education & Training
• The World Airport Data app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. (Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later)
• Addison Schonland’s IAGblog Podcasts
• FlightMemory

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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/.

 

 Airplane Geeks - Episode 108 - AirVenture Oshkosh 2010 [109:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3356)

Guest Stephen Trimble, author of The DEW Line on FlightGlobal joins in as we talk AirVenture Oshkosh 2010 and also military aviation. A sleep-deprived Dan brings us a bit of airline news to round out the GA, military, and commercial aviation conversation.

That’s Rob Mark and Dan Webb at Oshkosh in the photo, by the way.

The week’s aviation news:

• Weather moves AirVenture campers off grounds
• Car That Flies at EAA AirVenture
• VIDEO: C-47s Celebrate 75th Anniversary at AirVenture
• The Sikorsky Firefly – A 100% Electric Helicopter
• At EAA, Homeland Security Secretary Makes Security Announcement
• DC-3s Fly Over AirVenture
• Klapmeier Confident of Kestrel Capitalization
• Cessna introduces iFlite on iPad basis for all single-engine aircraft

Mentions:

• Yuneec International
• Seb’s Farnborough 2010 photos
• Tim and Grace’s Farnborough photos
• Dave’s American Kestrel Wikipedia link

This episode is dedicated to Mike’s mom.

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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/.

 

 Airplane Geeks - Episode 107 - Farnborough 2010 [76:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3775)

Max, David, and Rob talk about the recently concluded Farnborough International Airshow 2010, and Dan sends in some information about quarterly airline earnings reports. We have David’s This Week in Aviation, the Australia Desk Report, and listener mail.

The week’s aviation news:

• Steven Udvar-Hazy: Farnborough’s biggest dealer?
• Superjet seals second $900 million plan order
• Farnborough Airshow 2010: Emirates orders 30 Boeing 777 planes for $9.1bn
• Farnborough Air Show: A400M flies high as confidence takes off for Pentagon order
• Virgin America MOU for up to 60 A320s
• Kestrel single-engine turboprop to be produced in Maine

Mentions:

• Seb’s photos from the 2010 Royal International Air Tatoo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/spen258/).
• The Visual Flight Rules blog by Huss (http://husstechlabs.com/), with comments, analysis and views on the aviation industry.

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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/.

 

 Airplane Geeks - Episode 106 - Walking the Elk [110:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3126)

Bruce Landsberg, President of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Foundation (http://www.asf.org/),
a nonprofit pilot education and safety organization, joins as this week’s guest. We talk about the week’s aviation news and discuss the resources offered by ASF for new pilots, experienced pilots, and prospective pilots.

The week’s aviation news:

• NTSB addresses volunteer pilot decision making
• 400 Park Geese Die, for Human Fliers’ Sake
• Airline Challenge to Congestion Pricing Is Rejected
• In a First, Full-Sized Robo-Copter Flies With No Human Help
• Boeing’s Concorde successor
• NBTA Calls for Fair Display of Airline Fees
• Ramblings on Meddling and the “Public Good”

Mentions:

• The Bradford Camps, the North Maine Woods sporting camp owned by Igor and Karen Sikorsky III.
• Stitcher, where you can stream the Airplane Geeks podcast (and others) right to your mobile device.

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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/.

 

 Airplane Geeks - Episode 105 - Flying with Floyd [103:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3424)

Guest Floyd S. Werner, Jr. is a Baltimore City Police Helicopter Pilot who also flew AH-1 Cobras in Desert Storm and Bosnia, and OH-58D Kiowa Warriors in Bosnia. He is known for crashing the last Cobra in Europe in 1994 (engine failure on take off – awarded the prestigious Broken Wing Award) and holds the distinction of flying the last Cobra out of Europe to the Royal Military Academy of Science in England. Floyd is also an avid modeler, authored OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, Walkaround No. 50, and runs Werner’s Wings, a site for aftermarket resins and decals.

The week’s aviation news:

• Ukraine’s Antonov partnering on Air Force tanker bid
• Boeing Submits NewGen Tanker Proposal to US Air Force
• EADS KC-X Bid In, Tanker Rhetoric Heats Up
• U.S. Aerospace, Antonov file $29.55-billion tanker bid
• OC cities likely to cut back on police helicopter program
• Raunchy ads ‘put flight attendants at risk’
• Soldier Held In WikiLeaks Case Is Charged

Be sure to visit us at AirVenture 2010, Tuesday, July 27, 4:00pm at Pavillion 6 North of the Control Tower. You might become an Airplane Geek for the Day!

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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/.

 

 Airplane Geeks - Episode 104 - Bits and Pieces II [85:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3175)

The guys were off enjoying the 4th of July holiday, but still managed to assemble an episode without actually speaking to each other.

Dan and Courtney provide a little airline industry news and commentary, and Rob has an announcement about AirVenture 2010. David brings us some interviews he recorded at Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s World War II Commemorative Weekend. (See David’s photos below!) Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast have their Australia Desk report. (That’s Anthony with “the voice.”)

We’ll return next week with a regular episode and an exciting guest.

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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/.

 

 Airplane Geeks - Episode 103 - Live ATC [97:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4621)

Guest Dave Pascoe from LiveATC.net explains how he provides real-time Air Traffic Control feeds directly to your browser, mp3 player, and mobile device. LiveATC will be streaming ATC communications live from EAA Airventure at Oshkosh (in a joint partnership with EAA) – including both Tower frequencies and some other goodies. Look for Dave during the first few days of the show.

The week’s aviation news:

• United, Continental pilots say early talks falter
• Sexy Spirit Airlines ad that mocks BP oil disaster sparks outrage
• Spirit Airlines Loves That You Hate Their Ads (and They Should)
• ATC’s crisis night: Back-up does not work as radar fails
• US Air Force, industry prepare for T-38 replacement
• FAA To Change Age Retirement Rules For Air Traffic Controllers
• Comment extension grants time to act on avgas
• Boeing to bring 787 to Farnborough, happy with flight testing progress

David returns with his This Week in Aviation history segment. Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast have another great Australia Desk report.

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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/.