94 years ago today, the Pacific Aero Products Co was founded by William E Boeing in Seattle, WA and it has been an amazing ride since! Some key moments in their history: 1917: The company was renamed to the Boeing Airplane Company. 1927: Boeing started their own airline called Boeing Air Transport. 1933: Due to […]
Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin isn’t happy that Russia’s national carrier, Aeroflot, is not purchasing domestically-built aircraft. Putin feels it is, “unacceptable,” for Russia’s flag carrier to not be supporting Russian airplane manufactures. About a year ago, I wrote how Aeroflot was to sell all their TU-154’s and replace them with new Boeing and Airbus […]
Ah body scanners. One of my favorite topics to write about (or hate on). If you have missed out on previous posts let me re-cap why I don’t like them: * They violate our privacy. Not just people seeing your almost-naked bodies, but those that might have a disability and really don’t want some TSA […]
Olivier Bonnassies with Flight International, did a wonderful write-up on newer airliners finding their way into the scrap heap. Recently an 11 year old Boeing 737-600, a two year old Boeing 737-800 and an Airbus A318 were sent to the scrap pile. It is nothing new when an old and worn airliner makes its way […]
One of my readers, Drew, sent this awesome photo to me that he took at Charlotte Douglas International Airport and I wanted to share. This photo shows an Airbus A319 in old Allegheny livery next to an Airbus A321 in new US Airways livery. If you take a look in the background you can also […]