The headline is misleading. The article's topic is advancing STEM education for young women. The all-female crew was to demonstrate that aviation is already a legitimate career path for young women. The USAF is using a television commercial highlighting the same aviation career path for young women as part of their recruiting efforts.

(Written on 2019年10月18日)(Permalink)

Is that airframe still in production? If not, the cost to retool would likely be prohibitive.

(Written on 2017年05月19日)(Permalink)

"I imagine the ferry passengers were impressed." Or scared to death :)

(Written on 2017年04月21日)(Permalink)

Interesting ONLY from afar - a disaster onsite ;)

(Written on 2017年03月24日)(Permalink)

Guess I picked the right time to avoid LAX ;)

(Written on 2017年03月24日)(Permalink)

Government has nothing to do with it. Delta's management made a concious decision to not update their computer systems, simple as that.

(Written on 2016年08月12日)(Permalink)

The Boston Logan (KBOS) observation tower was indeed a fabulous place. It was a great place to see all the activity airside and from the other side of the building all the activity in the city. A sad loss, even after all these years.

(Written on 2016年07月08日)(Permalink)

I live in a market where 1 MD/717 replaced 2 CRJ-200 flights. The existing 2130 arrival got the bigger plane and the 1900 arrival got dropped. IMHO the far better comfort and available 1st class makes up for decrease in frequency.

(Written on 2016年04月29日)(Permalink)

Seems like a sound business method for DAL: pit the manufacturers' sales departments against each other to drive the price down. Not a novel business idea in the wider business world, certainly, but it must seem so to the Boeing/Airbus duopoly.

(Written on 2016年04月22日)(Permalink)

One common USAF combat mission is to fly over a very specific location, at a very specific altitude/speed, and at a very specific time. Having to appear over a football stadium in a small window of time without harming the civilians below is excellent training. And as Ruger9X19 said, crews are required to do this training to remain current in their qualification anyway, so it is far more economical to get dual use from the expenditure of training funds by coordinating with the PR department for events such as this rather than just picking a radio tower at random as a target. The icing on the cake is great video like this one.

(Written on 2016年01月08日)(Permalink)