Emil Jacob, a Boston designer, did more than wish there was a roomier seat on a long jet flight six years ago. He thought outside the tube, and came up with a series of ‘weird’ designs, which he has displayed on his business site for Jacob-Innovations, and which have just been highlighted on the AOL [...]
While reading Plane Talking yesterday on his way into central Shanghai an industry contact looked up from the post about a Cessna in Martin Place and saw what looks like “the mother of all short landings” and took this distant photo with his Blackberry. He believes it is a 737 that has been retired and [...]
Tamas Calderwood was walking through an unseasonally warm and sodden Martin Place yesterday when he noticed and imaged something novel. It is a Cessna Skyhawk (172), the latest version of the best selling and most flown aircraft ever, on display as part of a promotion by Aeromil Pacific-Cessna. Be careful if you step inside the [...]
Jetstar applied the blowtorch to the proposed trans Tasman alliance between Virgin Blue and Air New Zealand at the Australian Pacific Aviation Outlook Summit in Sydney today. It’s CEO, Bruce Buchanan announced Auckland-Melbourne daily A320s from December 13, and three times weekly Auckland-Cairns A320s from April 12 next year. These are perfectly timed to pre-empt [...]
Five days after being queried Boeing has at last come up with a maximum evacuation limit for the 787-8 Dreamliner. It is 375 passengers and crew. Which is not what Scott Fancher, the project’s vice president and general manager, was recorded as saying at the Farnborough Air Show. Fancher claimed it was 250 seats, and [...]
A Pacific Blue 737 flying from Queenstown NZ to Sydney has been caught red handed breaking a fundamental safety rule at the mountain rimmed airport, which is do not takeoff when it is too dark. This report is one of many in the NZ media overnight and this morning. LATEST: A Pacific Blue flight that [...]
A spokesman for the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, says the use of the word ‘supervision’ in his announcement about changes to air navigation procedures at Launceston and other regional airports really does mean ‘control’ from the top of descent right down to landing. He acknowledged that the word ‘supervision’ had a more [...]
There are problems with the intervention by the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, to end the unsafe situation involving airliner flights at Launceston Airport. After reading the CASA review document on which he based his advice to interested media of a ministerial direction that the problems were to be addressed these problems are: [...]
CASA has suspended the operator of the light aircraft which crashed at Canley Vale killing the pilot and a nurse while attempting to return to Bankstown Airport on June 15. It issued this statement late on Friday night July 23: TWO SYDNEY BASED AIR OPERATORS SUSPENDED The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has suspended the air [...]
Boeing is saying strange things about the 787 from a passenger safety point of view as it evades a critically important test that might impede its rush to achieve certification by the end of the year. This part of an article which has appeared in Flight International also quotes Boeing as saying the 787-8 has [...]
