A virtual tour of United’s Dreamliner is now available through the United Hub here. The virtual tour provides a detailed look at the aircraft’s unique characteristics through a variety of animated, interactive features. The tour enables viewers to sample the Dreamliner’s United BusinessFirst seats, electrochromatic window shades, six styles of LED cabin lighting and more. The virtual… Continue reading United 787 Virtual Tour
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Quote of November 2012
An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business. William Feather
Airport Information Network (AIN) – What is this?
The environment and circumstances surrounding aircraft moving about on the ground at an airport is nothing short of puzzling. An almost random mix of legacy technology and procedures and state of the art innovation, an airport is a place where aircraft, already out of their element, meet special challenges and unique dangers. On average, there… Continue reading Airport Information Network (AIN) – What is this?
Ferihegy Airport – the beginning of the end?
Not many things seem to be working in Hungary these days. With a right wing government that seems to make a sport of creating enemies all around it, from the European Union to the IMF, the small Central-European country has now reached a point where the economy has nowhere to go but down. This of… Continue reading Ferihegy Airport – the beginning of the end?
Painful regrets… The Transformation of Ferihegy in Words and Pictures.
Very possibly I am risking my job by broadcasting my pain, but I am unable to keep myself from doing it. I guess any reader would do the same thing if he were to be stripped of his home but still forced to continue living there. This complicated frame of mind is exactly what I… Continue reading Painful regrets… The Transformation of Ferihegy in Words and Pictures.
David McMillan, EUROCONTROL Director General, Assumes Chair of Flight Safety Foundation
The Flight Safety Foundation is an independent, non-profit, international organization engaged in research, education, advocacy and publishing to improve aviation safety. The Foundation’s mission is to be the leading voice of safety for the global aerospace community. It was announced today that EUROCONTROL Director General David McMillan has become the new Chairman of the FSF Board… Continue reading David McMillan, EUROCONTROL Director General, Assumes Chair of Flight Safety Foundation
QF32 – Saving an A380
By Capt. Richard De Crespigny Publisher: Macmillan Australia ASIN:B007KTLQ5W Text-to-Speech: Activated X-ray: Not activated We have brought you reviews of several books over the years and in each case we were talking about flesh and blood, sorry, paper and printing ink volumes, that is to say, traditional books. When I started searching for QF32, Capt.… Continue reading QF32 – Saving an A380
A Pragmatic Approach to modernising Europe’s Air Traffic Management Systems – SJU Press Release
Just a few days after the rather damning speeach of the European Commission’s Transport Commissioner, blasting Europe for 10 years of essential inaction on the Single European Sky (SES), the SESAR Joint Undertaking published the press release you can find below. The SJU strikes a rather more optimistic tone although the dissonance between these two… Continue reading A Pragmatic Approach to modernising Europe’s Air Traffic Management Systems – SJU Press Release
The Single European Sky: 10 years on and still not delivering
We bring you here, in full and unedited, the speech of Mr. Siim Kallas, European Commission Vice-President and Commissioner for Transport delivered at the Single European Sky conference at Limassol, Cyprus, on 11 October 2012. As Editor of Roger-Wilco, I would only like to add a few words: how many times have we warned that… Continue reading The Single European Sky: 10 years on and still not delivering
First manned supersonic flight – 14 October 1947
1947 was a tumultuous year for the US armed forces. The U.S. Air Force was created as a separate service in September and on 14 October Captain Charles “Chuck” Yeager broke the sound barrier in the first manned supersonic flight. At the controls of an XS-1 rocket plane, built by Bell Aircraft. The plane was… Continue reading First manned supersonic flight – 14 October 1947