March 2009 - Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs
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Barring some truly startling new development, this will be the final dispatch about the beagle-enhanced war on cheese that Chinese customs and immigration officials are waging at the spiffy new Terminal Three of Beijing's Capital Airport. For the...
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The causes of this crash seem more mysterious with the passage of a day. For the record, the human aspects have been clarified . The airplane was owned by a prominent dentist and businessman from Redlands, California. Nine of the people killed were his...
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Obviously little is known for sure, except that it looks like a terrible tragedy involving a large number of children. Condolences to all affected. Three quick points 1) The airplane in question, a Pilatus PC12, is a well-known, reliable, admired, sturdy...
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At last, my interests in (a) innovative small-airplane technology, and (b) the evolution of China's economy, come together in one bit of news. According to Aero-News.Net, in this dispatch , the next owner of the assets, technology, designs, etc of...
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I have a long queue of airplane-related items to work through - latest excesses of Security Theater , the still-toppling dominoes of Eclipse Aviation , etc -- but right at the moment, here is a sign of undeterred innovators in action. A flying car! Or...
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If you'd like to hear more about Newt Gingrich's plan to "reform" air-traffic control from someone who really knows the subject, I heartily recommend this entry from Don Brown's generally admirable Get the Flick site. Brown is a...
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(Following the previous thousand blooming flowers, here .) I hear via my aviation grapevine that my colleague Andrew Sullivan is making fun of Newt Gingrich in general, and in specific for this idea about modernizing the US air-traffic control system...