Airplane Geeks - Episode 155 - Bryce Soars [ 1:36:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (5952)

Guest Bryce Kujat has been flying since 1999 with about 6000 hours, including night cargo along the Gulf Coast in a C-310 and BE-58. He’s flown Lear 35, Caravans in Africa, experimental Navy surveillance aircraft, and charter in the Caribbean. Bryce holds a glider commercial and instructor license and he flys with the Cleveland Soaring Society. Bryce now flies low level atmospheric research aircraft over the Pacific Ocean for the Naval Postgraduate School.

The week’s aviation news:

• Design exemptions pave way for ‘roadable aircraft’
• Inhofe Introduces Pilot’s Bill of Rights
• Bio JetFuel for $2.97 a gallon
• TSA warns of implant bombers, prepares fliers for swab tests
• Gol acknowledges talks with WebJet
• Puntilla de SCT a Mexicana

Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron provide their Australia Desk report and talk about Tigar Airways and the carbon tax in Australia. 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 Dave Robinson from Aviation Ancestry about that historical archive. Dave is @aeroancestry on Twitter.

Mentions:

• FAA Investigating Senator Inhofe’s Closed Runway Landing
• Sen. Inhofe Pushes His Luck
• Arizona Soaring, Inc.
• Soaring Society of America
• Chinese airplane animation

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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 114 - Back with Benet [ 1:33:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (5741)

Benet Wilson, Online Managing Editor-Business Aviation for the Aviation Week Group, joins once again as our guest. We talk about the week’s aviation news, the upcoming NBAA Conference, and other aviation topics. Find Benet on Twitter as avweekbenet and avweektweets, and read her posts at Business Aviation Now and Things With Wings, the commercial aviation blog.

The week’s aviation news:

• ‘Hidden airline fees’ targeted by new travel coalition
• MadAsHellAboutHiddenFees.com
• Virgin America lifts 2Q revenue but losses persist
• BA’s Walsh draws up shopping list of 12 airlines
• Travel industry uses Facebook and Twitter to reach customers
• First biofuel- powered military helicopter takes flight
• Ryanair’s O’Leary: The Duke of Discomfort
• Michael O’Leary: Flying’s anti-Richard Branson

Mentions:

• Akron-Canton Airport social media page.
• Boeing Blogs
• NBAA – National Business Aviation Association – NBAA2010: Where Business Aviation Powers Business, October 19-21, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia.
• European Private Aviation Conference – November 1st and 2nd in Vienna, Austria.
• Check6
• Registered Traveler Programs Return, but They Still Don’t Look Like Viable Businesses
• Join David at the Oceana Air Show 2010.

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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 94 - Jet Checking [ 1:41:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (5512)

Our guest this episode is Jonathan Heckman, founder and writer of the JetCheck.net blog. Jonathan attends Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where he’s working to a Bachelor of Science degree in Aviation Business Administration. He’s also a student pilot, logging hours in a Diamond Eclipse.

The news:

• Airlines want payouts for ‘overreaction’
• Airlines and Ashes
• Aircraft engine makers, regulators study ash impact
• US Airways calls off merger talks with United Airlines
• With Higher Passenger Revenue, Delta Narrows Loss to $256 Million
• Southwest Airlines posts $11 million 1Q profit
• Spirit Airlines Installs “Pre-Reclined” Seats On New Airbus A320′s
• DOT Denies Requests for Waiver of Tarmac Delay Rule
• Swelblog: Dr. Amy Cohen on Tarmac Delays
• O’Hare to shorten runway
• EADS North America Intends to Submit Proposal for U.S. Air Force Tanker
• See also: EADS KC-45 Tanker and The Real American Tankers
• U.S. Army Unveils UAV Road Map
• ‘Green Hornet’ flies for Earth Day

David provides his This Week in Aviation history segment, and we have a great report from the Airplane Geeks Australia Desk.

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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 60 - Flying Green [ 1:28:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4652)

Guest Jim Hileman, an alternative fuels researcher from MIT, joins Dan, Rob, and Max to talk biofuels and reducing the carbon footprint of aviation.

In the news this week:

• Former Beijing airport boss executed in China
• House Pencils in Millions for Jets the Air Force Did Not Request

Also:

• Sirus boss quits
• Delta job cuts
• Save Frontier

And some news from the green aviation front:

• NASA To Hold Competition For 100% Biofueled Aircraft
• Harvesting algae to power sophisticated unmanned aircraft
• Boeing and Leading Airlines Announce New Members Added to Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group
• Algae: The next biofuel bet
• Bio-jet fuel plan takes off

And finally, some related resources:

• Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction
• Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative

We also have a report from the Airplane Geeks Australia Desk.  Court returns with another Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot segment, we have a This Week in Aviation segment, listener mail, and more.

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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 55 - Flying With Fish [ 1:25:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3728)

Featuring Steven Frischling, the founder of The Travel Strategist site as well as the popular travel blog Flying With Fish.

• Inquiry Finds French Flight Struck Ocean Intact
• What if airplanes could transmit info from flight data recorder?
• France claims crashed A310 failed 2007 inspection; teenaged passenger survives
• Alterative fuels specifications pass first certifying hurdle
• Boeing Shopping In South Carolina?
• ANA adds five 787s to order, to issue nearly $2 billion in new stock
• Justice Department opposes antitrust immunity for Continental to join United Airlines team

We also have a 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.

Dan selected Flightlevel350.com as this week’s aviation website pick of the week, a great source for aviation videos.

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This episode’s opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love. You can visit his site at brotherloverocks.com.

Episode 50 - Weekly Aviation News with Eddy P. [ 58:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2618)

Max and Court are joined by Eddy Pieniazek from Ascend Worldwide. We once again have split the podcast into two episodes, and you’ll find the latest and greatest in news in this episode.

• Innovating Aerospace Engineer is First Customer for JetSuite and Air by Jet; On First Commercial Phenom 100 Flight in California

• What skeptics? JetAmerica talks up ambitious growth plans

• ANZ biofuel flight data: 1.2% fuel burn cut, 60%-75% CO2 reduction on 12-hr. 747 flight

• ATA opposes Aviation Global Deal Group approach

• Delta limits new international bag fee

• Airlines reach cruising altitude, but turbulence may lie ahead

• Virgin Atlantic Defies Airline Slump

• Exeter airline hits back over value claims

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We’ll be bringing you these show notes, as well as some of the week’s news we didn’t have time to cover.
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Episode 30 - Speaking With Dr. Alfred Kahn [ 1:02:34 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3492)

Max and Court are pleased to bring you an interview with Dr. Alfred Kahn, the father of U.S. airline deregulation.  Dr. Kahn led the push for airline deregulation during the late 70′s and has been called on for airline industry advice ever since.  Dr. Kahn is the only guest we’ve had on the Airplane Geeks with his own Wikipedia page.

News:

First LASP Hearing Draws A Crowd

TSA catches heat over private aviation proposals

Aviation Biofuels: More Hype Than Hope?

NTSB gives an update on the Denver crash

AirAsia unveils plans for own airport outside Malaysian capital

Five Big Changes Coming to Air Travel in 2009

Max’s pick of the week is www.air-valid.co.uk.

The Airplane Geeks are now on Twitter!  You can follow us @AirplaneGeeks.

Make sure to sign up for our new newsletter, “Airplane Geeks Week in Aviation.”
We’ll be bringing you these show notes, as well as some of the week’s news we didn’t have time to cover.
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Brother Love is responsible for this episode’s opening and closing
music, and you can visit his site at brotherloverocks.com.

If you have a question or a comment for the Airplane Geeks, you
can send it to thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com.

You can also leave us voice mail at (812) 757-4252. If you have
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Episode 29 - Branding with Shashank Nigam [ 1:07:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2968)

Max and Court are joined this week by Shashank Nigam of Simpliflying.com.  Shashank is an airline branding guru, and stops by to lend his thoughts to the various personalities of the airlines.

Tell TSA what Large Aircraft Security Program means to you

As distressed Detroit drops its jets, bizav ponders the fallout

WORLD EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: WhiteKnightTwo flies!

Honda to sell 100 jets a year from 2010

Investigators Focus on Likely Wind Gust in Denver Crash

NZ airline flies jetliner partly run on biofuel

Boeing considers 737 enhancements

GLOBAL AVIATION FORECAST – IATA issues forecast for 2009

16-Year-Old Sitka High School Student Wins ‘Paint the Plane’ Contest

Max’s pick of the week is How to Become A Private Pilot.

The Airplane Geeks are now on Twitter!  You can follow us @AirplaneGeeks.

Make sure to sign up for our new newsletter, “Airplane Geeks Week in Aviation.”
We’ll be bringing you these show notes, as well as some of the week’s news we didn’t have time to cover.
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Brother Love is responsible for this episode’s opening and closing
music, and you can visit his site at brotherloverocks.com.

If you have a question or a comment for the Airplane Geeks, you
can send it to thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com.

You can also leave us voice mail at (812) 757-4252. If you have
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