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Airplane Geeks Historian David Vanderhoof joins Rob and Max as they discuss the week’s aviation news. David also provides his This Week in Aviation history segment, Steve and Grant have the Australia Desk report, and Court returns with another Wiskey Tango Foxtrot look at aviation.
- Pilot safety bill passes US House
- Passenger ‘Rights’ Advocate Sues Delta, Alleges Email Hacking
- Michigan airport grounds website over malware risk
- UK Military Wants Istar UAV In 2015
- Flight Pay For Non-Flyers
- China’s Leap in Unmanned Aircraft Development
- Ion Tiger Fuel Cell Unmanned Air Vehicle Completes 23-hour Flight
- Airline flies first passenger flight on natural gas
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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/.
My favorite part is the WTF. The guys who does that bit is just dreamy!
Great job on the outtakes this week! Poor Dan get’s picked on when he’s not there, but that’s what happens when you choose school ahead of the Airplane Geeks. Lesson learned. 😉
We only rag on people we like, and since we like Dan a lot he gets the full brunt of it!
The WTF is pretty good, eh? We should have that guy on more often!
Who is that guy anyway???
Sounds like I’ve heard him before….can’t quite put my finger on it though…
thanks for the plug guys, good show.
[jet bob reports…]
Hi Guys a CO Express plane lands at my tiny home airport after weather at two other airports force it to dievert to KLAM here is link http://www.koat.com/news/21361507/detail.html
[Peter sent this in:]
Hello, fellow airline geeks.
I just recently discovered your podcast and thought you might be
interested in this.
I represent the Eastern Airlines Flight 401 tribute group; a group of
crash survivors and families who were touched by the December 29, 1971 crash of Eastern Airlines flight 401 near Miami (the first crash of a
jumbo jet, which killed 101 people). As you are probably aware, this
crash gave birth to CRM training, something that is again very much in
the news given this weeks US Air airport overshoot.
We currently have two websites on the crash and efforts to erect a
memorial on the crash site, which you can visit here:
http://eastern401.googlepages.com/ and
http://ealflt401.blogspot.com/
The group, includes crash survivors Ron Infantino, stewardesses Mercy
Ruiz and Beverly Raposa as well as some of the rescue workers from
that night and aviation safety professionals. The group has recently
been sharing their stories of survival and rescue and the resulting
changes in pilot training to interested parties (US Coast Guard
station at Opa Loka, the Airliners International 2009 event held in
Orlando, etc) and I was wondering if you’d like to have some of us as
guests on your podcast?
Great show! I found it interesting how many regional pilots seem to be concerned about this on various airline blogs. I would think that regional pilots would be the most enthusiastic about this. I agree that this (if passed into law) will have to have a positive effect on their pay and/or QOL. If there are not qualified replacements available and the trend of pilots moving on the other carriers as they gain experience continues, something will have to be done to fill the gap and stop the losses. This can only be good for those pilots at the regionals that are qualified for those seats.
I have a Eastern Airlines button down blue & white stripped shirt with a sewn-on logo on the front and a BIG sewn on logo on the back.
Plus a Eastern Airlines box cutter.
Any idea if these are worth anything?
Thanx
Doc@HaleBobb.com