Aviation Stuff

Neat article about Alaska Airlines from the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/business/alaska-airlines-flying-above-an-industrys-troubles.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&pagewanted=all

 

I wonder if the Dreamliner really is safe to fly?

 

A month late, I realize, but you'd think that an article that focuses in part on the airline's obsession with timeliness and cost cutting would at least make a passing mention of how that obsession once helped kill 88 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261

 

I was talking to an aviation writer about the 787 before the battery deal surfaced. My concern was the composites used--I think I'd feel a little odd flying in a Dreamliner until they've got a few years' use on them.

 

From airplane porn, we move now to airport porn

http://youtu.be/xOVYWAm8pbI

 

Welp, that didn't last long,

“Strato-Goose”? Stratolaunch to Discontinue Operations After Single Flight.