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Flight Review: Business Class on China Airlines’ Boeing 777-300ER
China Airlines’ Boeing 777-300ER – Photo: Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren When China Airlines unveiled its new Boeing 777-300ER back in early October of this year, it was clear that this airplane was something...
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The New Eastern Air Lines Takes Delivery of First 737 in Miami
Eastern Air Lines’ first 737-800 flies over Miami – Photo: Airways News This story was originally published by Chris Sloan and Luis Linares on AirwaysNews.com Nearly 24 years after the original Eastern...
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A Different Perspective: A Non-AvGeek Flies on a British Airways 787
British Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner – Photo: Martin Hartland | Flickr CC People who love to fly don’t fly economy. For the past several months, my husband has pitched the idea of AirlineReporter...
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Flying Andy Granatelli’s Indy 500 Race Cars on a TWA Boeing 707
A TWA Boeing 707 freighter on Runway 25R at LAX – Photo: Jon Proctor Here’s a little background about a wonderful encounter I had with racing legend Andy Granatelli in the late 1970’s. At that time, I...
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Delta Air Lines Completes Second Phase of JFK Terminal 4 Expansion
Delta Air Lines unveils the next phase of a Terminal 4 expansion at JFK – Photo: Michelle McLoughlin | Newscast Creative As part of their $1.2 billion effort at improving their space at John F. Kennedy...
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Delivering the Mail 100 Years On – Following Maurice Guillaux’s Historic Route
A Jabiru J-230D – Photo: Owen Zupp Things weren’t looking good. The next morning I was scheduled to depart Essendon and reenact the historic air mail flight undertaken by Maurice Guillaux in 1914. As I...
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The College Perspective: Training How to be a Pilot & Homework
Getting ready to fly – Photo: Zachary Azzarito College, as they say, is the best four years of your life. You make life-long friends, discover what career you want to pursue, and obtain valuable...
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Saying Goodbye to the Last US Airways Boeing 767
The last US Airways Boeing 767 flight, ready to go – Photo: Justin Cederholm | NYCAviation This story was written by Justin Cederholm for NYCAviation.com Another chapter in the long history of US...
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What to Do When Your Britannia 314 Only Has Three Working Engines in Libya?
Caledonian Airways’ Bristol Britannia taken in February 1969 at Sabha Airport – Photo: Ken Fielding Just after joining Caledonian Airways in February, 1969, I went to Tripoli, Libya, to help handle...
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Bombardier CSeries CS300 Achieves First Flight
Bombardier CSeries CS300 takes flight for the first time – Photo: Seth Miller | AirwaysNews The full story was written by Seth Miller on AirwaysNews.com. The Bombardier CS300, the newest commercial...
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5 Things That Bags Hate – An Open Letter From the Pan Am Bag
This is how I normally like to fly – in my own business class seat – Photo: Bag’s Human Dear Humans, It has come to my attention that many of you complain about the “inconveniences” of air travel. I...
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An Introduction to Vietnam Airlines – the Next “It” Carrier in Southeast Asia?
The initial A350 XWB for Vietnam Airlines rolled out of Airbus’ Toulouse paint shop on 6 March 2015, displaying the airline’s updated blue and gold lotus livery Vietnam Airlines, the government-owned...
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The Evolution of Engine Starting: From Hand-Propping to Button Pushing
Cold cranking an Ilyushin Il-14 – Photo: Aleksander Markin | Flickr CC Excerpt was written by David J. Williams, who is a former airline captain and currently involved with aviation safety, on...
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VIDEO: Bigger. Better. Checking Out the New Boeing Space Bins Firsthand
Space Bins in the 737 Configuration Studio – Photo: The Boeing Company During Aviation Geek Fest 2015, a small number of us AvGeeks (seven, to be exact: me, Mal, Dan, Christy, Michael, Michael #2, and...
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Memorial Day: Flying a Fallen Hero
Police and emergency services line up to show respect to the fallen soldier at LAX on an Alaska Airlines flight in January of 2014 – Photo: David Parker Brown | AirlineReporter Excerpt from...
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Let’s Avoid Ebola Paranoia and Stop All These Airplane Quarantines with Some...
Media can make things get out of control – Image: Original photo via ChameleonsEye | Shutterstock.com Full story originally posted on CrankyFlier.com via Brett Snyder… Had I said to you a month ago...
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Flight Review: Gatwick to St. Lucia on Virgin Atlantic in Economy Class
Virgin Atlantic’s “Golden Girl” Airbus A330 – Photo: Alastair Long I recently flew Virgin Atlantic from London Gatwick (LGW) to St. Lucia (UVF). It was a first-time experience for me, both flying the...
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Train vs Plane: Traveling in Europe to Spain
Platform at Alicante station – Photo: Ant Richards Spain is a proud and mesmerizing nation, perched on the Iberian Peninsula on the southwestern tip of Europe. A country that conjures many festive,...
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Lost Bag? That Sucks! Know What to Expect & How to File a Claim
“The Flying Traveller” by Patrick Amiot & Brigitte Laurent at Vacouver’s airport Consider these two scenarios: Scenario One: an elite flyer with a major US air carrier files a claim with his...
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Sharing a Passion for Creating Impressive Aviation Art
A classic Continental Airlines Boeing 707-300 – Image: JP Santiago I suppose I was destined to be doing aircraft profile art from a young age. Many of my notebooks and textbooks had aircraft drawings...
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