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Fly the Private Skies Using a private jet is more affordable than you might think.   |
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Flight Club Forget the company car. Getting around is faster -- and less expensive than you may think -- in a private plane. |
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High Net Worth: The Jet Set A look at your options for private jet travel: buying a plane, fractional ownership, or chartering a flight. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Jonathan Wheatley |
Brazil's Embraer Hits The Stratosphere Its new class of planes are a big hit with companies from US Airways to Alitalia |
BusinessWeek
May 29, 2006
Amy Gunderson |
Arriving On A Jet Plane Plans for sharing private jets aren't cheap, but carriers are offering more options. |
Salon.com
November 13, 2001
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"It couldn't have come at a worse time" Former Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner explains how the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 will affect the air travel industry... |
Salon.com
March 8, 2002
P. Smith |
How safe is your airplane? After the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, some pilots requested that all Airbus A300 planes be grounded. But they're still aloft... |
Salon.com
May 30, 2002
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Crash culture Who is to blame when a 22-year-old 747 falls from the sky? |
Popular Mechanics
July 9, 2008
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Mechanic: Obama's Plane Could Have 'Lost Control' in Anomaly Sen. Barack Obama's MD-80 aircraft made a surprise landing on Monday morning due to controllability issues. |
Popular Mechanics
December 10, 2008
Michael Milstein |
Is a Controversial Technology to Blame for the F-18 Crash? The F/A-18D Hornet that slammed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego Monday came from the first family of fighter jets with full fly-by-wire technology. |
The Motley Fool
February 10, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Who Loses When Execs Ditch Their Jets? As troubled corporations try to unload their fleets to stem the public relations headaches, the wreckage may lead to the discovery of still another crash: the manufacturers of business jets themselves. |
Salon.com
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Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do seat cushions actually save lives? And why don't U.S. airlines fly to Africa? |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Christopher Palmeri |
Snarl In The Sky Private jet traffic is creating commercial flight delays, safety concerns, and calls for small planes to pay more into the system. |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Embraer Thinks Small The Brazilian aerospace company is making a foray into tiny jets. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
FAA Task Force Issues New Drone Guidelines Registering drone operators -- and not the aircraft they're flying -- will help the Transportation Department identify flyers who violate FAA regulations. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2009
John Keller |
UAV Aircraft and Crowded Civil Air Space: Is it Safe Out There? It's only a matter of time before the aerial unmanned vehicle take their place in civilian air space. How are we going to fit all these planes? |
Salon.com
September 20, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot What happens when you drop dry ice into an airplane toilet? And are regional pilots just rejects from the big airlines? |
| AskMen.com |
Teamwork: Simon Sinek Don't forget to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. "It is that well-oiled machine that makes the pilots and the United States Air Force such a remarkable organization." |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2007
Kenji Hall |
Japan Has A Lot Riding On This Plane Mitsubishi Heavy's lightweight jet could make it a player in commercial aviation. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Tekla S. Perry |
Airlines: Got Fuel? Airlines are now putting the minimum amount of fuel in planes necessary to reach their destination, but are they underestimating the amount they need? |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Kripalani et al. |
Dogfight Over India Airbus and Boeing are going all out to win billions in plane orders from India's booming airlines. Even startups are being taken far more seriously these days. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
Salon.com
June 28, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small? |
Fast Company
November 2003
Scott Kirsner |
Some Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines They won't end up in every garage, but a new generation of low-cost "personal" jets could really take off. Tiny Adam Aircraft is racing to be first on the runway. |
The Motley Fool
July 8, 2011
Shubh Datta |
Can American Airlines Afford $15 Billion Worth of New Planes? American Airlines parent AMR Corp looks to spend close to $15 billion in adding 250 new aircraft to its fleet. |
National Defense
August 2009
Stew Magnuson |
No Further Funding for DHS Shoulder-Fired Missile Program The Obama administration in its 2010 budget has not requested further funding to test a controversial program to protect commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Boeing's Challenge Boeing's focus on the 7E7 is the right path for now, but the firm will have to confront the challenge from Airbus' A380. |
National Defense
May 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Marine Special Operators Rely Heavily on Hand-Launched Drones The newest component of U.S. Special Operations Command has quickly embraced drone technology, particularly the small hand-launched aircraft that weigh less than 20 pounds and fly at speeds under 100 knots. |
National Defense
November 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Guard Refueling Mission Proves a Bit Too Exciting To see what really goes on in the day-to-day life of the tanker fleet, a National Defense reporter rode along on a recent training mission flown by the 108th Air Refueling Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard. |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2008
Rich Smith |
Boeing's Boffo Day Good news comes in pairs. |
National Defense
April 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Army Slow To Adapt Fly-by-Wire Controls for Helicopters Fly-by-wire technology has long been credited for enabling military fighter jets to maneuver through the air. The technology displaces the pilot's mechanical linkages to the flight control surfaces with wires, which will allow a digital signal to "drive" the helicopter. |
National Defense
June 2013
Insinna & Tadjdeh |
Air Force Making Headway on Fuel Efficiency Goals The Air Force is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The service requires massive amounts of fuel to power its aircraft, but in a budget crunch, officials know they must curb consumption in order to save money and be less susceptible to a volatile oil market. |
Salon.com
December 13, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
A no-fly zone for terrorism By taking pilots out of the loop, can software prevent planes from being used as bombs? |
Salon.com
September 12, 2001
Phaedra Hise |
Flying with phantoms A pilot waves goodbye to the World Trade Center... |
Salon.com
August 9, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot When airplanes collide, who is responsible? Are we doing enough to prevent such disasters? |
BusinessWeek
October 14, 2010
Chan Sue Ling |
As Asian Air Travel Soars, Pilots are Scarce As Asian air travel soars, the demand for pilots will likely outstrip supply. Some airlines are offering perks to recruits, including free training. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Jeff Wise |
How Plane Crash Forensics Lead to Safer Aviation After each plane crash, investigators study the wreckage, analyze flight data and examine clues regarding flight conditions. Once they have determined a cause, they often help create recommendations that prevent the problem from recurring. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
iPad Glitch Grounds Dozens Of American Airlines Flights American Airlines began issuing iPads with a dedicated app to pilots and copilots back in 2013 to replace heavy paper manuals and flight plans. Yesterday, those iPads crashed. |
Popular Mechanics
June 1, 2009
Mark Huber |
Air France Mystery: Was Lightning to Blame? Aviation experts agree that it is highly unlikely that lightning alone caused the crash of Air France Flight 447 earlier today. |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2007
Adam Aston |
Untangling The Traffic Jam In The Air The technology already exists to make flying simpler, safer, and more efficient. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Susan Karlin |
James Brown: Above & Beyond This experimental test pilots are aviators trained in engineering and can convey problems and improvements for plane development. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
JetBlue's New Look JetBlue expands its service with new 100-seater planes. The airline, with debt to equity at a jaw-dropping 252%, has little wiggle room to attract customers with the new planes. |
Popular Mechanics
December 28, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008 |
Wiring a Problem for All Aging Aircraft, Not Just MD-80s Cynthia Furse, a professor of electromagnetics at the University of Utah, is interviewed about the hidden hazards of airplane wiring. |
Salon.com
December 19, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Were United's pilots to blame for the airline's failure? And: How worried should we be about the specter of shoulder-launched missiles taking down a domestic jet? |
National Defense
February 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Teaching Non-Pilots to Fly Predators Requires More Cockpit Hours in Manned Aircraft The Air Force last fall graduated its first class of Predator pilots from an experimental program aimed at training non-aviators how to fly remotely-operated aircraft. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2011
Philip E. Ross |
When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Coping after the Concorde disaster Consoling odds: Your chances of dying in a domestic plane crash are still less than one in a million. |
National Defense
August 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Predator Ground Stations Need Redesign, Say Pilots The demands for aerial surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan grow by the day, and that means more Predator unmanned aircraft and pilots are needed. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
David Noland |
10 Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation Here are eight crashes and two emergency landings whose influence is felt -- for the good -- each time you step on a plane. |
