Why Gas-Guzzling Airlines Will Crash and Burn.

Correlation between fleet age, MPG per pax, fuel expenditures and how these new fuel efficient aircraft such as A320neo, B737max, B787, and A350 will make or break an airline. (www.fool.com) More...

A Delta 767 diverts because of Cracked Windshield!

Delta 1052, a Boeing 767-300 ship number 0182, enroute from Seatle to Atlanta diverted to Salt Lake City due to a cracked windshield. The nearly 130 passengers spent about two hours in Salt Lake before they borded a replacemnet "stubbed" out (added flight) Boeing 757-200 and continued on their way to Atlanta. The Boeing 767 recieved a new windshield and will make up DAL1586 on Thursday the 29th. (flightaware.com) More...

F15 Awesome cockpit views over the pacific

F-15 Eagles from 18th Wing, Kadena conduct an air combat maneuver training mission near the Island of Guam in support of exercise Cope North. COPE NORTH is a multilateral exercise featuring the U.S. Air Force, the Japan Air Self Defense Force, and the Royal Australian Air Force designed to enhance air operations in the Pacific Region. Video by Staff Sgt. Michelle Revoir. Presented by AVHUB Military Videos. (www.youtube.com) More...

SkyVector adds graphical Drone NOTAMS aka "DROTAMS"

Aviation charting website SkyVector has added a useful new feature—graphical depictions of drone notams, which it calls “drotams”—that show dimensions of drone/UAS airspace and information about activity times and operating altitudes. (www.ainonline.com) More...

American MD80s, Showing Their Age? Three Incidents in Four days.

http://avherald.com/h?article=44677d4e&opt=0 http://avherald.com/h?article=44672754&opt=0 http://avherald.com/h?article=44672634&opt=0 (avherald.com) More...

Divert or not Divert ... Simple Question?

Fog in EZE causes British Airways Boeing 777 to divert...or it least it should have. (avherald.com) More...

Delta's $2 Billion in-flight upgrades; Return of Customer Service or Gimick?

ATLANTA, Oct. 5, 2011 -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today launched new in-flight entertainment options for customers as part of its $2 billion investment in the flying experience. (news.delta.com) More...

Air France 447: Was it a "Deep Stall?"

"Far from a deep stall, this seems to have been a conventional stall in which the airplane displayed exemplary behavior: It responded to roll inputs, maintained the commanded pitch attitude, and neither departed nor spun. The only thing it failed to do well was to make clear to its pilots what was going on." (www.flyingmag.com) More...

Russia's MAK findings on the fatal T204 Moscow Over-run

Misalignment of mechanism and locks of thrust reversers on both engines as well as inappropriate actions (inappropriate provisions in the flight crew operating manual) by the crew during the landing run that resulted in lack of effective braking overrunning the runway and colliding with obstacles at high speed (about 190 kph/102 knots), the destruction of the aircraft and loss of life. (avherald.com) More...

(Video) Remote ATC Towers active in Sweden by Saab/LFV Team...

Comments from the flightaware think-tank Please: Could the antique ATC system in the US incorporate such a system? Is this the system of local control for the future? As a passenger would you feel comfortable landing at an airport without a real tower? What about glitches and possible weaknesses in the system? (www.flyingmag.com) More...