Concorde Crash Conspiracy - It Could Have Been Prevented
It hit the debris and it popped a tire and that tire shredded and sent pieces into the bottom of the wing and fuel tank along with a little of the debris. This shows why it is important to get ideas from everywhere and how contests spur on innovation. This is an awesome idea and I would hope the US Military would put them on the catapults so when it returns it video tapes the deck. The young man's device is said to be able to spot even a single nut on the runway, which could be picked up by a tire or sucked into a jet engine. In the United States we have constant robotic contests and we all know about Robot Wars.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part I
Many of these pilots used this extra fuels to take students or cadets in the CAP-Civil Air Patrol up for rides. It takes a lot of aircraft washes to pay for fuel and instructor and a plane for an hour these days. Yet the IRS came down on private pilots and aircraft owners for using it as a tax write off for fuel for their private planes. At the airport he washed aircraft and he traded for pilots lessons. Others in his peer group and older people who understood his dreams to fly.
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Airlines, Price Wars, and Branding
An Industry that takes wartime aviation advances and a few years after to allow for the new technology to reach the private sector with new and efficient aerodynamics and electronic positioning and fuel allocation devices. By cutting off the direct paths from station to station (VOR) they were able to save fuel and time in flight, thus able to lower cruising speeds, less drag on the hyperbolic curve and save millions each day in fuel. Similar in fuel consumptions, similar ticket distribution system, similar airport landing fees and similar customer base. Continental Airlines instituted a fuel savings program to Pilots who were given a percentage of Lbs saved in fuel as a bonus. HAVE CAPACITY RADY TO TAKE ON NEW CUSTOMER BASES AS COMPETITORS LEAVE THE MARKET.
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Cactus Fly-In, Casa Grande AZ
A separate company specializing in aircraft washing will have its own washing procedures and can help aviation safety with regards to washing. Although there have not been too many NTSB findings where washing procedures cashed a crash, several have attributed to the comedy of errors usually associated with crashes, a multiplying of problems which eventually causes a crash. Also common are electrical problems or avionics failures due to water entering where it shouldn't causing or attributing to a crash. In many cases such a strategy can save the FBO in increasing insurance costs. The FBOs are adjusting their strategic marketing plans to meet the financial challenges in general aviation.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part II
How could they understand what it means to fly? They are ground lovers. The counselor at this young man's school did not understand what was a matter with this kid. People who fly think more three demisional, like those who build train sets and run them around their display. American Indians, those in the mountains had much more understanding and intellect than those in the plains. I still think that this program teaches more than any guidance counselor at any school.
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A Look at Fractional Jet Ownership
If you're Donald Trump, you can think nothing of equipping yourself with a Boeing 727 that costs probably close to $50 Million (not including the costs of pilots, flight attendants, support staff, insurance, fuel, maintenance, etc. Nothing says success like the ability to roll out of bed, take a shower, eat a nice breakfast - all while you cut through the air at 528 mph. Fractional shares start at 1/16 of a share, which can be as low as $369,875 in a Hawker 400XP. The Marquis Jet Card starts at $109,900 for 25 hours in a Cessna Citation V. In fact, the BBJ is even available with a boardroom, bedrooms, and a shower.
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The History of the Aircraft Wash Guys, Part One
This was when the ITC-Investment tax credit was taken away, America was still in the energy crisis with high fuel prices and luxury tax law went into affect the next year and killed General Aviation. As part of this business he started the first Aircraft Multi-Listing Service, which was online. Although the Internet was not really being used yet and TRS 80's were just hitting the market. He used dumb terminals and watts lines to send aircraft brokers updated listings. There was a time when if Lance could not cage the gyros and in a plane so he could do a spin or a barrel roll or in aerobatic aircraft do a loop or tail slide he just wouldn't fly.
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General Aviation Manufacturing is in the Tank; Hang On It is Going to Get Worse
The light aircraft market in the US has been dominated by Piper, Beech, Cessna but in the last two and a half decades the finish products liability has skyrocketed as lawyers lawsuits have increased both in number and monetary awards. As the price increased new aircraft sales could not keep up and the used aircraft prices also skyrocketed. American Airlines cancelled 54 orders for new aircraft from Boeing recently, not good, the increases in operational fuel costs, Continental postponed their large jet order. In America we no longer mine our own raw materials, Iron Ore mines cannot stay in business due to regulations and restrictions, same goes for Gold Mines, Copper, etc. This means if we have to import raw materials to compete, we pay those shipping costs too and as the price is passed on for the over regulation in every industry we are finding we are our own worst enemy.
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