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• Continental Airlines posts loss, to cut 1,700 jobs

  Created: Tuesday, 21 July 2009 11:59 Author:

  Continental Airlines posts loss, to cut 1,700 jobsJuly 21, 2009NEW YORK (Reuters) - Continental Airlines Inc posted a steeper second-quarter loss on Tuesday as the slump in business travel and fears about the H1N1 virus hurt revenue, and said it will cut ...

• 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Landing on the Moon!

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2009 09:43 Author:

         40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Landing on the Moon!                                            July 20, 1969  July 14, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinida...

• 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Landing on the Moon!

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2009 09:37 Author:

          40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Landing on the Moon! July 20, 1969  In 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged America;  He said, the U.S. should work quickly, to meet a goal, of sending Americans to the Moon before the end of the decad...

• Air Force Plans for All-Drone Future

  Created: Friday, 17 July 2009 10:52 Author:

  Air Force Plans for All-Drone FutureBy David Axe   July 17, 2009  |  11:37 am  Is the day of the hot-shot fighter jock nearly done?An Air Force study, released without much fanfare on Wednesday, suggests that tomorrow’s dogfighers might not have pi...

• SWA Investigation by FAA

  Created: Friday, 17 July 2009 02:41 Author:

  Southwest 737 Investigation May Look Into Previous Maintenance ViolationsFri, 17 Jul '09Aircraft Section That Failed May Not Have Been Covered By 2004 AD The NTSB Investigation of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 which experienced a cabin depressuriza...

• Global Airline Capacity Continues To Stabilize

  Created: Thursday, 16 July 2009 12:43 Author:

  Global Airline Capacity Continues To Stabilize                                   Thu, 16 Jul '09OAG Releases July Figures On The Number Of Available Seats - One year on since the world's airlines began to curb their seat c...

• 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Launch to the Moon!

  Created: Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:41 Author:

       40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Launch to the Moon!                                            July 16, 1969  July 14, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa...

• Hawaii Eyes Space Tourism Business

  Created: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:17 Author:

   Hawaii Eyes Space Tourism BusinessHONOLULU —  Space pioneers envision launching high-end Hawaii tourists from the sand to the stars, taking island-hopping to new heights.Hawaii could become the first place where travelers can use the planes for real...

• Stunt Plane Crashes Into Car

  Created: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:43 Author:

  Amazing Video: Stunt Plane Crash4 Survive In Germany After Biplane Inadvertently Collides With Car                                              SEE THE VIDEO ...

• Southwest Airlines checks all B737's

  Created: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 12:18 Author:

  Southwest Airlines orders check on all Boeing 737sKHQ Spokane - Tue Jul 14, 8:21 am ET CHARLESTON, W.Va.- Southwest Airlines is inspecting nearly 200 of its aircraft overnight after a hole the fuselage of a plane forced an emergency landing in West Virgi...

• Southwest Airlines hole in fuselage

  Created: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 12:15 Author:

  Southwest Airlines Flight 2294 lands with football-sized hole in fuselage New York Daily News - Tue Jul 14, 9:05 am ETREAD MORE...

• More Pilots on the street.

  Created: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 12:10 Author:

  More Pilots on the street.Georgia Public Broadcasting News Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:46 AM PDTA regional carrier for Delta Air Lines is cutting more of its workforce. Atlantic Southeast Airlines is furloughing an additional 56 pilots this fall. The Atlanta...

• Business jet market faces slow recovery

  Created: Friday, 10 July 2009 12:39 Author:

  Business jet market faces slow recoveryReuters, Thursday July 2 2009By Karen Jacobs ATLANTA, July 2 (Reuters) - The business jet market, which soared in recent years as U.S. companies posted record profits and new foreign buyers raised demand, is now...

• NTSB Report for Steve Fossett Crash.

  Created: Friday, 10 July 2009 12:10 Author:

  Mountain Downdrafts Blamed in Death of Record-Setting Pilot By MATTHEW L. WALDPublished: July 9, 2009 WASHINGTON — Steve Fossett, who was the first person to complete a solo, nonstop flight around the world in a hot-air balloon and the first t...

• Not as many used jets for sale

  Created: Thursday, 09 July 2009 23:44 Author:

  Not as many used jets for sale  BY molly mCmillin The Wichita Eagle A leading indicator for the sale of business jets — the number of used planes on the market — moved lower for the first time in months. The number of used business jets on the ma...

• Midwest Airlines Furloughs

  Created: Thursday, 09 July 2009 08:55 Author:

  Midwest Airlines Announces Furloughs For Pilots, Flight Attendants WISN 12 Milwaukee Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:25 AM PDTMidwest Airlines informed its pilots and flight attendants Wednesday there will be furloughs....

• Flight School Scams.

  Created: Tuesday, 07 July 2009 14:01 Author:

   Flight School Scams, Shattered Dreams Drive LawsuitsTue, 07 Jul '09Deplorable Flight School Failures Draw Legal AttentionThe recession has brought many tales of woe from the days of easy credit. Just as many people were nonchalant about taking on big de...

• Green Shoots in Economy?

  Created: Tuesday, 07 July 2009 02:32 Author:

  As Jobless Claims Mount, Executive Recruiters See HopeSource: Jeremy Caplan for TIME July 7, 2009Initial claims for jobless benefits clicked higher once again, with 627,000 newly unemployed reported for the week ended June 20. But amidst that grim news t...

• Operations Article Notification CFIT

  Created: Friday, 03 July 2009 23:26 Author:

  New Article, about Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)Hey, just posted a NEW article concerning CFIT in the "Operational Information" area.We also provided a CFIT CHECKLIST to help keep you and your passenger safe!Enjoy! Click the link below to rea...

• NACO finalizes new chart distribution method

  Created: Thursday, 02 July 2009 14:27 Author:

  NACO finalizes new chart distribution method The National Aeronautical Charting Office is changing the way it distributes aeronautical charts, effective Oct. 1, to meet budget goals. AOPA staff worked to ensure that the changes would have a minimal effec...