Rob Mark

Don’t expect changes anytime soon to long airport security lines, no matter what remedies Congress may try to implement. The Reason Foundation’s director of transportation Bob Poole says there are a couple of untried tactics the TSA could implement, however, that would make a difference quickly. The first method, Poole says, would include “converting some […]

Early on in every pilot’s lifetime there’s a moment when he or she is faced with the yin and yang of flying alone. Viewing the majesty of the sun as it disappears below the horizon from a vantage point that no one else shares is a reason many of us learned to fly. Then there […]

The second of Mitsubishi’s regional jet test aircraft (MRJ), known as airframe FTA-2, took off from Nagoya for the first time on May 31 and confirmed its basic characteristics and functionality in airspace off the Pacific coast of Japan. “As with the first flight conducted with MRJ’s FTA-1 in November of last year, we had […]

After aligning the company’s outlook with the world’s macro-economic trends, Bombardier says it’s still confident about the future of the business aviation market. The Canadian aerospace builder’s 10-year forecast predicts competition for sales, spurred by a 10 percent drop in total aircraft deliveries worldwide, and it’s uncertain how that will affect prices. In 2015, the […]