April 1st is an marketing opportunists dream. It basically gives airlines (and other companies) licence to lie in the name of a viral marketing campaign. And it works.
Peanuts, Penis & Peanuts
February 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Peanuts are now served on board NorthWest Airlines as its merger partner, Delta, has done for years. Big deal, right? It wouldn’t be worthy of a mention if it weren’t for CNN’s Zain Verjee’s comical attempt to report the news. Something tells me she has something other than nuts on her mind. Freudian slip? Anchorman [...]
Flight 1549 – Women and Children First
January 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve read a number or news articles and watched a number of online videos relating to Flight 1549 and there seem to be one element of concern relating to the way in which the evacuation was conducted; It appears that many passengers took the “woman and children first” approach. It’s actually quite admirable that many [...]
Flight 1549 & Captain Sullenberger
January 17, 2009 By 1 Comment
Ken Andrews, a well-known Australian flight instructor and testing officer, once told me that it didn’t matter how many hours you had in your logbook – it was the hour that you were about to fly that mattered most. “You won’t be judged by your logbook”, he said, “you will be judged by the decisions [...]
Boeing revised QRH & Engine Failure Assessment
January 6, 2009 By 2 Comments
Ken Pascoe is an extremely accomplished Boeing 777 Check and Training Captain. He has recently written a white paper on the Paradigm shift with regard to engine failure analysis on Boeing type aircraft. This blog was originally published on martinetics.com in 2009 prior to Ken and I undertaking flight.org. The following text is from Ken’s [...]
First look at V Australia’s Boeing 777 Simulator
December 24, 2008 By 1 Comment
On Tuesday 23rd December 2008, two of the first V Australia flight crew, Dave Kienzle and (flight.org’s very own) Ken Pascoe managed a starring role in a children’s TV show they both rate quite highly. Every day they sneak out of the simulator for a reported ‘coffee break’ just before 4pm – yet don’t return [...]
Virgin Blue ‘NextGen’ Board Game
December 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A Virgin Blue employee has become an overnight media whore after he created a board game criticising the decision making process at the Brisbane based airline. The story was originally published on the Brisbane Times website and has since made its way onto countless other websites, blogs and forums. Torsten Koerting attached the ‘snakes-and-ladders’ type [...]
Ryanair cabin crew strip for charity
November 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Thirteen flight attendants from Ryanair have stripped off their uniforms for the company’s annual charity calendar, but it has feminist groups burning bras and claiming that the airline is both sexist and perpetuating long held stereotypes about cabin crew. It’s unlikely that the female Ryan Air staff feel the same way since it is reported [...]
Jetstar: Flight attendant in Captain’s seat
September 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A Jetstar flight attendant has been photographed in the Captain’s seat of an Airbus airliner in what appears to be level flight. Crikey’s Ben Sandilands originally reported the photographs on Tuesday, and the pictures have created a bit of a buzz in aviation forums and in various media as journalists and uneducated media commentators banter [...]
Will a 747 jetblast blow over a car, bus or aircraft?
September 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
There has been a United Airlines video in circulation for some time that shows a car getting blown off the road it’s driving on due to the jetblast of a stationary aircraft. Users of aviation forums the world over, armchair enthusiasts and pilots from all walks of life have long debated the realism of such [...]
QF30 ATSB report & rapid descent video
August 28, 2008 By 6 Comments
The preliminary occurrence report into the Qantas 747 (VH-OJK) that suffered an explosive depressurisation 475 km northwest of Manila has been released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and with it, more images of the oxygen cylinders that allegedly caused the incident. From the ATSB report: “After clearing the baggage and cargo from the [...]
Cathay Pacific Low Pass – January 2008
August 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
On January 20, 2008, 55-year-old Cathay Pacific Captain Ian Wilkinson and his 48-year-old co-pilot Ray Middleton took delivery of a brand new 777-300ER from the Boeing factory in Seattle. As part of the acceptance ceremony, the two pilots made a low pass of the runway complex before continuing with their onwards journey. Cathay Pacific chairman [...]
Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 & Captain John Bartels (JB)
August 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
John Bartels was the Captain on board QF30 when it suffered an explosive depressurisation enroute from Hong Kong to Melbourne on July 25, 2008 – forcing the diversion of his 747-400 into Manilla. John Bartels is know to the aus.aviation Usenet community as JB, and was an active and highly respected community member until he [...]
V Australia – more pics and new TV campaign
August 18, 2008 By 2 Comments
Attached are a few more pics of V Australia’s first Boeing 777-300ER on the production line at Boeing. Also attached are some photos of V Australia’s appearance at the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) Annual Convention & Trade Show. NBTA is a source for critical information on the business travel industry, with over 2,700 global [...]
