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Episode 109 – Plane Gabbing with Gavin

maxflight — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:36:00 +0000

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:

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/.

Episode 100 – The First Hundred

maxflight — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:50:22 +0000

To celebrate the first hundred episodes, Rob, Max, David, and Dan are joined by founding co-host Courtney Miller. We discuss the week’s aviation news and reminisce a bit about the first hundred Airplane Geeks episodes. That plus This Week in Aviation and the Australia Desk report.

The news:

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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/.

Episode 98 – George Hamlin

maxflight — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:40:28 +0000

Our guest this episode is George Hamlin, President of Hamlin Transportation Consulting. He’s been in the commercial aviation and aerospace industry for almost 40 years, specializing in things like transport economics, marketing and strategic planning, aircraft requirements/fleet planning, economic analysis and forecasting for both passenger and cargo operations. George has worked at Airbus, Lockheed, TWA, and a number of other companies and brings a wealth of experience to the conversation.

David provides his This Week in Aviation segment, and Steve and Grant stayed up late producing the Australia Desk report.

The news:

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Photo above from http://www.octuri.com/. 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/.

Episode 92 – Aboulafia Joins the Geek Posse

maxflight — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:29:15 +0000

Richard Aboulafia, Vice President of Analysis at Teal Group, returns as our guest this episode. Besides managing consulting projects for commercial and military clients, Richard is perhaps one of the most quoted industry experts in the media. We discuss the week’s aviation news, narrowbody re-engining, the COMAC C919 and Irkut planes, and Nunn McCurdy breaches over DC. Rob launches the Bottom Feeder Airline concept, there’s a dead animal joke, and something about pilots on Prozac.

As usual, we have the This Week in Aviation history segment from David, and the Airplane Geeks Australia Desk report.

Also mentioned:

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Opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. Visit his site at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.

Episode 91 – Flying with Chris Manno

maxflight — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:22:29 +0000

Our guest this episode is Chris Manno, an airline captain, teacher at Embry-Riddle University and sometimes at Texas Christian University, and writer of the JetHead blog. He also cartoons about life at the airline over at FlightcrewZoo.

We have a special appearance by Christopher White, Director of Public Relations for AirTran Airways. Chris was with us way back in Episode 48 to talk about AirTran’s inflight WiFi. This episode, Chris contributes to the discussion about the recent Southwest and AirTran videos “poking fun” at each other:

The week’s aviation news:

As ususal, we have our This Week in Aviation history lesson and the report from the Australia Desk.

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This episode’s opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. Visit his site at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.

Episode 87 – A Most Unusual Family

maxflight — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:27:08 +0000

Jill Rutan Hoffman is a pilot, author of two aviation books (First Flights and Oshkosh Memories), and she comes from a family of aviation dreamers. Her father, Dick Rutan, piloted the Voyager aircraft around the world non-stop, and her uncle, Burt Rutan, designed the Voyager, SpaceShipOne which won the Ansari X-Prize, the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, and many others. Jill joins us to talk the week’s aviation news and her aviation experiences.

Also making an appearance is Kim Welch, an Airplane Geeks listener and frequent commenter on our content. We’d heard so much from Kim that we decided to get him on the show.

David Vanderhoof has his This Week in Aviation segment, and Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast have their Australia Desk report.

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This episode’s opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. Visit his site at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.

Episode 84 – Plane Crazy Again

maxflight — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:42:00 +0000

Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast join Max, Rob, and Dan to talk about the weeks aviation news.

The Flight Global Webbies 2009 winners have been announced, and our own Dan Webb won Best Blog for his Things in The Sky!

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This episode’s opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. Visit his site at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.

Episode 79 – Aviation Photos by Skippyscage

maxflight — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:21:42 +0000

Guest Paul Filmer joins the Airplane Geeks to talk about current aviation news. Paul is Stateside Editor and Database Administrator for Global Aviation Resource, he contributes to Combat Aircraft Magazine, and you can find his personal page at skippyscage.com/. Paul is an accomplished aviation photographer and you can find his work at those sites.

David Vanderhoof gives us This Week in Aviation, and Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast have their Australia Desk report.

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This episode’s opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. Visit his site at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.

Episode 74 – Joshua on Airports

maxflight — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:55:01 +0000

Our guest this episode is Joshua Abramson, he’s the Airport Manager at Winchester Municipal Airport, and also an aviation advisor for the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) which carries out applied research on problems that are shared by airport operating agencies. We talk with Josh about issues of concern to regional airports. His website is Airport Solution, which is home of the Airport Executive blog.

The news:

David Vanderhoof has another This Week in Aviation. His links this week are The Flying Clippers and Pan Am Clipper Flying Boats.

We also have Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast with their Australia Desk report. The guys sent along a second bonus clip that we found very funny and think you’ll enjoy. We also have some listener mail.

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This episode’s opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. Visit his site at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.

Episode 73 – News Fit to Print

maxflight — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:25:55 +0000

Benet Wilson, Aviation Week’s Online Managing Editor for Business Aviation, again joins Max, Rob, and David to talk about the week’s aviation news. We also discuss how aviation journalists keep current with the news (or ahead of it) and we have some tips and resources that help you stay current with aviation news.

David Vanderhoof has another This Week in Aviation, and Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast have their Australia Desk report. We also have some listener mail.

For aviation news:

Alltop
Jetpedia
Addict-o-matic (airline example)

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This episode’s opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. Visit his site at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.

Episode 71 – Flying with MayCay

maxflight — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:07:02 +0000

This week’s guest is MayCay Beeler, a pilot, flight instructor, and TV journalist. MayCay joins Rob, Max, and David to talk about aviation news from the week, her flying experiences, and her recent article in AOPA Online, Crazy for Canada, Flying the Governor General’s Cup International Air Rally.

David has another This Week in Aviation while Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron have their Australia Desk report. We also have some listener voice and e-mail.

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This episode’s opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. Visit his site at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.

Episode 64 – Experiential Journeys

maxflight — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:15:51 +0000

Guest Jeffrey Ward, the Savvy Navigator, has been in the travel industry for over 20 years, about half of that with American Airlines. He now provides travelers with experiential journeys to places like South Africa, Argentina, and Costa Rica.

We have the week’s aviation news and our report from the Airplane Geeks Australia Desk. David Vanderhoof joins us for his This Week in Aviation history lesson, Dan Webb interviews Gary Kelly, the CEO of Southwest Airlines, and we have some listener mail.

The news:

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This episode’s opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. Visit his site at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/.

Episode 53 – Benet, Jon, and Mary

maxflight — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:06:27 +0000

Co-hosts Rob, Dan, and Max are joined by guests Jon Ostrower (Flightblogger), Benet Wilson (AviationWeek), and Mary Kirby (RunwayGirl). This episode focuses on the Paris Airshow, but we’ve also got Dan’s interview with with Gary Kelly, the CEO of Southwest Airlines, our report from the boys down under at the Airplane Geeks Australia Desk, a This Week in Aviation segment, a bit by Courtney (remember him?), and listener mail.

Rob selected sky-lens as this week’s aviation website pick of the week. There you’ll find great aviation photographs by François Brévot, including those you see in this post, taken at the 2009 Paris Air Show.

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Photos courtesy François Brévot sky-lens

Episode 44 – RunwayGirl

Miller22 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:51:59 +0000

We had a great time talking with Mary Kirby, or perhaps better known as RunwayGirl from the Runway Girl Blog. She takes the time to talk earnings (or lack of), bad PR, and snakes. Yes, snakes.

EADS Willing to Consider Splitting Air Force Tanker Contract With Boeing

Four snakes ground Qantas plane

Analysts weigh in on Southwest Airlines’ loss and prospects

Two years of the biggest business travel stories

White House: Easing Cuba travel restrictions likely to lead to more flights

United Airlines to charge overweight passengers for two seats

Max’s pick of the week is aircraft.factualtv.com

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Episode 41 – Talking with Jon Ostrower

Miller22 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:15:09 +0000

Jon Ostrower, AKA Flightblogger, joins The Geeks this week as we cover the latest news. We talk everything from the 787 to Formula One!

Concorde to Fly Again (Not Really)

Babbitt Named to Lead Federal Aviation Administration

Southwest looking at new aircraft?

787 Probably Will Fly by End of June

Max’s pick of the week is Mako’s RC Jet Club.

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Episode 27 – Talking Airplanes with Richard Aboulafia

Miller22 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:09:00 +0000

Richard Aboulafia, an industry analyst and VP of analysis at Teal Group, joins The Geeks this week as we talk airplanes. It turns out that Richard is not only very knowledgeable about the aviation industry, but he’s also very funny. We spend almost the entire hour talking with him about the news:

Airlines’ on-time performance improves in Oct.

Invest in Aviation Infrastructure, Groups Tell Congress; Relatively Small Investments Could Yield Big Local Returns

Analysts see worrying trend in airport incursions

Embraer Phenom Wins Brazilian Certification

Bombardier to bring CSeries 110 to market first

ANA Mulling Seeking Compensation On Boeing 787 Delay

Airbus and Boeing plan loans for buyers

AIA dailyLead Special Report: Looking forward to 2009

Part I

Part II

Max’s pick of the week is a double shock with Aircraft Nicknames and Aviation Alias. Both sites offer the endearing and sometimes humorous nick-names we give our aircraft.

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Episode 26 – Capt’n Chris with The Geeks

Miller22 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:58:42 +0000

Captain Chris from the Plane Madness Podcast joins Max and Court this week as they talk podcasting, and the week’s news. Fortunately, it seems like we may be seeing some improvement to the sound quality, thanks to Chris, and to the hundreds of listeners who’ve put up with some trying podcasts. Regardless, this is another heavy news week:

FAA Warns Winter Travel Delays Possible Due To Runway De-icer Shortage

Airbus, Turkey sign A350 cooperation agreement

FlightBlogger: Airbus Dreamliner Dossier Revealed

US aviation industry needs foreign cash, Barack Obama told

US negotiator Byerly stands firm on ownership, cabotage changes in near term

Three airlines drop self-reporting safety program

Max’s pick of the week is Simpliflying. This fantastic blog covers airline branding, and provides a great perspective of international aviation

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Episode 16 – ‘Flyer Talk’ with Randy Petersen

Miller22 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:10:41 +0000

This week, Max and Court are proud to bring you a “special” guest, Randy Petersen, Founder of Flyer Talk and Boarding Area. Randy is a self-proclaimed “Frequent Flier Geek” and gives us some insight into the minds of a business traveler. Word associations don’t seem to phase Randy, as he passes with flying colors (pun intended).

This Week’s News:

Eclipse Aviation gets financing for Russian plant (International Herald Tribune)

EADS announces new A400M first flight delay (Flight Global)

Boeing sees fresh orders for its 767s (Seattlepi.com)

Delta, Northwest shareholders OK merger combo plan (USA Today)

Boeing: Oil to stabilize at $70-$80 per barrel, single-aisle deliveries to grow (ATW)

U.S. Airlines Grounding 500+ Planes This Fall (Wall Street Journal)

Airline Fees: You Hate ‘Em, Stocks Don’t (TheStreet.com)

Max has a “Double Shock” pick of the week:

AirportGuide.com

Go Pro Digital Video Cameras

Why, you ask? Because Max thinks this would produce some good video footage attached to a light aircraft. Video from an ultralight or LSA or a hang glider would probably capture the thrill of it real well.

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