Most people in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District know Sam Graves as their elected representative on Capitol Hill. But, since the late 1990s, he’s also been an enthusiastic and accomplished vintage warbird pilot who regularly flies these historic aircraft during the aerial demonstrations at EAA AirVenture.
Early on, I was stunned that I could take my airplane –– OK, we can call it a glider if you'd prefer –– out of my closet and throw all 28 lb. of it over my shoulders and go anywhere in the world to fly it.
EAA AirVenture purists will tell you that the only way to get to Oshkosh is in a light aircraft. As a card-carrying EAA member who greatly respects that tradition, I loaded up my Beech Bonanza F33A and began the annual 10+ hour journey from San Diego to Oshkosh on the eve of the show.
Development of revolutionary engines at GE Aviation is setting the stage for the next 50 years in military aircraft propulsion, engineers there believe.
IATA has boosted its 2015 collective net profit forecast for the world’s airlines to $29.3 billion, up 47.2% over the the $19.9 billion projected by the organization in December 2014.
Speaking with ATW on the eve of the IATA AGM in Miami, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines Director General Andrew Herdman said that 2014 had been “very tough” for the region, with the majors and low-cost carriers struggling alike.
Müller told Aviation Week at the International Air Transport Association Annual General Meeting (IATA AGM) in Miami that he expects major progress in that regard within the next five years, as countries continue to liberalize their air service agreements and allow their national carriers to combine forces.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr suggests that the airline industry should take a close look at how WTO has been dealing with trade disputes in other industries and try to learn from those mechanisms.
LOT—which hosts the next Star Alliance board meeting in Warsaw June 22-24—hopes to use that opportunity to explore greater partnership opportunities with its fellow Star members.
US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will deliver a keynote address during the opening session of the at the IATA AGM in Miami Monday, raising the possibility that the ongoing dispute between the three major US carriers and the three largest Gulf airlines could be discussed even though it is not on the AGM agenda.
Tony Tyler could be looking ahead at a relatively relaxed annual general assembly. The location in Miami Beach is nice; there are no major decisions to be made by the board; and the industry is doing reasonably well. And the one big policy issue that the industry will have to deal with—the introduction of a global emissions trading system to be organized by ICAO—is only really on the agenda for next year. In other words: “It is business as usual,” Tyler says.
The Gulf carrier issue is not on the IATA meeting agenda for a simple reason of protocol: The association represents airlines from both increasingly hostile camps and cannot take a stance without hurting the interests of important members.
In early May, Cargolux joined the growing list of major passenger and freight carriers refusing to transport lithium-ion batteries. The current risk to continue flying such shipments is “not acceptable,” Europe’s largest freighter airline says.
Pat Durkin, VP of Sales and Marketing of TE Wire & Cable, discusses a few ways to improve composite curing quality for the MRO aviation industry at the MRO Americas exhibition in Miami.
