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AirVenture Volunteers: One Lady’s Story
AirVenture Volunteers: One Lady’s Story Publisher Note: One of the best parts about Jetwhine is that Scott and I often receive stories from readers out of the blue. While we can’t use them all, there...
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Labor of Love: Capturing Veteran Leather
When John Slemp came to the JetWhine.com lunch at EAA AirVenture 2015, he carried with him a large flat package that was maybe 20 by 24 inches by an inch deep and wrapped in brown paper. At such...
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United Airlines: Time to Stop Just Talking About Customers
Over the last 20 years, we all listened to one United CEO after another talk about how much they value their customers. Enough talk. United’s new CEO Oscar Munoz needs to stop the talking and start...
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Above & Beyond: Volunteer Pilots Fight for Israel
Trailer for Above and Beyond. Wandering through the recently added titles to Netflix’s “watch now” films the other night, I came across Above and Beyond, a documentary about the birth of what became...
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ATC and Pilots: When to Keep your Mouth Shut and when to Speak Up
ATC and Pilots This sounds a bit pathetic, but most of the professional pilots I’ve known in my life have been smart alecks, me included … always ready with an opinion, whether anyone asked for it or...
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Dayton NAHA: A Model for the Rebirth of Aviation
When the National Aviation Heritage Alliance, a coalition formed by the leaders of the 19 sites that comprise the National Aviation Heritage Area (both served by the NAHA acronym), invited me to its...
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Generations of Aviation Relevance
On my inaugural visit to the National Museum of the United States Air Force, I expected nothing more than the opportunity to meet many of the airplanes I’ve read about in their tactile,...
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Measuring Aviation Rewards: A Personal Hall of Fame
Gathering with my aeronautical peers, I rarely participate in conversations in which they compare their cumulative and recent aviation rewards in terms of certificates and ratings earned, total hours...
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Historic Airplanes: A Reliquary for the Spirit and Soul of Their Crews
The men who united as a crew in the vertical war over Europe after Pearl Harbor have all since surrendered, as we all must one day, to time. Its last living member, radio operator Robert Hanson,...
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Encouraging People to Replace Us
Encouraging People to Replace Us Finding young people to grab the reins from us old guys in aviation is a bit like the weather … everyone talks about why we need to do something, but not everyone is...
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How Deep is Your Aviation Knowledge?
With the approach of December 17, which every airplane geek holds dear as Kitty Hawk Day, the birthday of powered flight, a brief quiz to probe your aviation knowledge beyond this momentous event. The...
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It Takes a Community to Promote Aviation
Promoting aviation to ensure its future viability and growth is something important to most of us who are involved with it personally or professionally. Individuals and organizations have promoted and...
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Taking Time to Find Aviation Serendipity
On your way someplace else, how many times have you passed a sign pointing to a small town airport? The more important question is how many times have you followed that sign? With the potential for...
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Trying Something New
Trying Something New Quite a few Jetwhine readers and listeners have asked what happened to The Aviation Minute, the editorial podcast series I began a couple of years ago using this neat logo. The...
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User-Fee ATC: Speak Up Now or Lose Access
Call it what you like, privatizing, corporatizing, or commercializing the FAA air traffic control system will ruin the foundation of the world’s largest, safest, and most diverse and complex national...
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Congress Proposes Drastic Cut to GI Bill Flight Training
If you care about the aviation industry and the veterans, whose honorable service earned them GI Bill benefits that lead to the degrees leading to careers in it, you need to be aware of HR 3016. You...
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Technology Satisfies Cockpit Curiosity
Maybe it’s a pilot thing, but I find the insides of airplanes just as interesting, and often more interesting, than their outsides. Cockpits and crew stations is where humans interface with the machine...
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Aviation Mastery or Minimum Standards . . . What’s Your M.O.?
Publisher Note: I’ve known Jim Lara for some time since we work together on the NBAA Single Pilot Working Group trying to tackle the challenge of reducing the accident rate for people who fly business...
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Bomber 21? Why Not Build a Better B-52?
The U.S. Air Force opened the doors on its new, and as yet unnamed, long-range strike bomber, the B-21. The contract pasted in the cockpit window said each bomber would cost $500 million and the total...
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MH370 Two Years Later: Has the Industry Changed?
MH370 Two Years Later: Has the Industry Changed? It’s anniversary time, but March 8 won’t be a happy day to reminisce. Two years ago, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), a Boeing 777, disappeared...
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