Boeing

The national flag carrier for the Netherlands, KLM, has flown that flag now for 100 years, not only with a royal blessing, but also a number of other firsts and records to its credit. KLM celebrates 100 years of flying under the same business name, “Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën,” or Royal Dutch […]

Handling emergencies and unusual situations is a significant part of learning to fly and remaining current to fly any airplane. Flight training can’t possibly teach pilots how to handle every single event they could encounter, however. With that concept in mind, pilots are often taught to look for the similarities between one event and another […]

U.S. Air Force top gun candidates will soon have a new toy to play with, an airplane that was previously simply named T-X. Boeing won the contract about a year ago and the U.S. Air Force recently announced the official name and livery of the striking new trainer. The T-7A Red Hawk will be delivered […]

Aviation Partners, Inc. (API) based in Seattle, Washington, recently announced that its unique (and trademarked) Blended Winglet and Split Scimitar Winglet technologies have saved the world’s commercial and business jet operators more than 10 billion gallons of jet fuel, resulting in a corresponding global reduction of over 105 million tons of CO2 emissions. To put […]

Aware that this column will have new developments by the time it goes to print, I hesitated to write about the subject. But I felt ­passionate enough that it would be a ­disservice to readers if this particular ­airline guy didn’t weigh in, especially for ­someone that spent an entire jet career flying Boeing products. […]

Boeing and FAA have found an additional software issue on the 737 MAX, separate from the MCAS problem, that will require additional time to fix, as Boeing disclosed in a securities filing on June 26. “The Federal Aviation Administration has asked The Boeing Company to address, through the software changes to the 737 MAX that […]

Boeing released its annual Boeing Market Outlook in concert with the Paris Air Show during the week of June 17. The report summarizes the current state of the global aviation market and projects anticipated growth 20 years into the future, broken down by region and aircraft size. The Boeing Market Outlook punctuated an event that […]

The U.S. aviation industry’s hard work to reduce the accident rate of air carriers shows. Over the past decade, Part 121 flight operations have experienced just a single death. That puts the industry safety record just a notch short of perfect when measured by the number of fatalities. But earlier this month, the industry came […]

To many GA pilots, asking whether a pilot’s iPad is ForeFlight-equipped has become nearly as generic a question before takeoff as wondering if there will be Kleenex aboard. In early March, aerospace giant Boeing added Houston, Texas-based ForeFlight to its stable of subsidiaries that includes Jeppesen and its entire line of navigation databases, charts, aviation […]

Former Delta Air Lines executive Steve Dickson faced heated questions in the Senate on Wednesday about whether regulators could have done more to prevent two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets. Dickson, who was senior vice president of flight operations at Delta until his retirement last October and a former F-15 fighter pilot, is […]