Bob Collins
A foreclosure in Rush City, the mosquito fight we can’t win, the people who defend the poor, a bid for bus lanes, and the Lark of Duluth flies again. Read more →
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Tag: Aviation
A new documentary on a plane crash 17 years ago must have the National Transportation Safety Board rattled, because the NTSB today announced an unusual background briefing next week in the crash of TWA Flight 800. “The TWA Flight 800 investigation remains one of the NTSB’s most extensive and exhaustive investigations; the final report includes Read more →
A neurological wake-up call, drone journalism, the Texas filibuster, end of the playoff lawn, and the beginning of the ‘Should Kevin Love be traded?’ season. Read more →
Apparently the new threat to air safety is 15-year-old girls whose shirts are not tightly buttoned. Over the weekend, Boing Boing editor Mark Frauenfelder relayed the story about what happened when the girl passed through the TSA security post in Los Angeles: She said the officer was “glaring” at her and mumbling. She said, “Excuse Read more →
When Wisconsin’s biggest event — the air show in Oshkosh — takes place next month, the FAA will be providing air traffic controllers at what becomes the world’s busiest airport, and the organization that sponsors the event is hopping mad about it. The Experimental Aircraft Association announced today it’s agreed to pay $450,000 in expenses Read more →
A World War II bomber is raised from the English Channel, more than 70 years after it crashed. Read more →
Over the years, I’ve passed along posts from “Sam,” a fully-unnamed regional airline pilot out of Minneapolis who writes the “Blogging at FL250” blog about his life as an airline pilot. I didn’t know his last name until today, when Flying Magazine published Sam Weigel’s article, “A Day in the Life of an RJ Pilot.” Read more →
I’ve had my doubts about the viability of Terrafugia’s project to build a street-legal airplane, but this week it became more clear what the end game is.
Nate Minor
The Royal Air Force museum in Britain is planning to raise a World War II-era airplane from the floor of the English Channel.
As we near the date when some air traffic control towers will close, the claims of unsafe skies are coming more into focus. Most of it is guesswork.