AIN Blogs

AIN Blog: En Route to Paris on Honeywell’s Biofuel Proving Flight
June 23, 2011 - 11:20am
Kirby J. Harrison
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Here we are, 41,000 feet in the air, sailing along at a little more than 476 knots and a little more than halfway from Morristown, N.J., to the Paris Air Show. We’ve got a biofuel blend of Honeywell’s finest and jet-A feeding engine one and straight jet-A in the other. The G450’s Rolls-Royce engines appear to be perfectly happy on a diet of either, and the flight is as smooth as a glass-top table.
AIN Blog: The care and feeding of the press
June 23, 2011 - 6:17am
David A. Lombardo

A pink golf shirt. I understand companies want to curry the attention of journalists, but at some stage you reach the point of diminishing returns.
AIN Blog: Join Me on AIN’s Long and Winding Road to the Paris Air Show
June 14, 2011 - 10:14am
Charles Alcock
2011 looks like being a vintage year for the Paris Air Show. ...

Later this morning I’ll hop on a train for my biennial pilgrimage to the Paris Air Show. Thanks to the tunnel beneath the Channel connecting the UK to the mainland of Europe, and the speedy Eurostar train, it is not a long or arduous journey–not least because it no longer involves having to endure one of London’s accursed airports.
AIN Blog: BARR and the Global Financial Crisis
June 14, 2011 - 5:57am
R. Randall Padfield

One result of our Netflix subscription is that my wife and I are watching many films that we probably would have missed. Two such films are Michael Ferguson’s “Inside Job,” which won the Academy Award for best documentary last year, and Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” with Michael Douglas reprising his role as Gordon Gekko from 1987’s “Wall Street,” also directed by Stone.
AIN Blog: Problems? Maybe the BJT Ombudsman Can Help
June 13, 2011 - 8:08am
Jeff Burger

Most of the time, business aviation makes air travel painless and trouble-free. That’s what you’re paying for and that’s why you love it.
AIN Blog: Mica Continues Fight against TSA
June 10, 2011 - 10:57am
Paul Lowe

Congressman John Mica keeps ratcheting up his war against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which he shoulders the blame for creating in the aftermath of 9/11. And judging from anti-TSA sentiments at the recent National Air Transportation Association Air Charter Summit, he probably can enlist a lot of spearchuckers to help win the battle.
Torqued: Scapegoats - Just another Way to Avoid Government and Corporate Accountability?
June 10, 2011 - 10:36am
John Goglia

Just as the flight data recorders from Air France Flight 447 were first being read–a few weeks shy of the two-year anniversary of the aircraft’s fatal plunge into the Atlantic Ocean four hours after takeoff from Rio de Janeiro en route to Paris–I started receiving calls from reporters asking for comment on word leaking out that pilot errors had caused the aircraft to stall and crash, killing all 228 people aboard.
AIN Blog: Behind the Scenes at Business Jet Traveler
June 7, 2011 - 6:57am
Jennifer Leach English

Even if you are really tired of reading about Donald Trump, I encourage you to take a look at the June/July 2011 edition of Business Jet Traveler, where you will find him on our cover.
AIN Blog: Brendan Gallagher’s Influence on Aerospace
June 3, 2011 - 10:55am
Nigel Moll

Brendan Gallagher died last Sunday morning at his home in London, just days after participating in press trips to Geneva, Belfast and Turkey with his usual enthusiasm and good humor. He was taken at a youthful 60. 
AIN Blog: The Declining State of Economy Class Seating
June 3, 2011 - 10:36am
Bill Carey

In releasing its annual summer travel forecast recently, the Air Transport Association of America (ATA) projected modest, 1.5-percent growth in passengers over last year and expressed relief that people continue flying despite the overall economic impact of higher fuel prices. I would venture that ATA should worry as well about the cumulative impact of wedging people in unbearable economy-class seating.

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