NAPA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2011- In the wake of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) recent landmark decision to fine American Eagle $900,000 for the May 29th stranding of nearly 600 passengers on Chicago O’Hare’s tarmac, it appears that the airline industry has resorted to scare tactics… Read more
OPShots contributor AirC Images has submitted a pair of photos of his Dad, taken 70 years apart. The older photo, from 1941, shows a dashing young aviator standing in front of a Curtiss Condor II biplane bomber at the now long-gone Roosevelt Field in New York. Seventy years later, he is now… Read more
There’s a great new series on the BBC in the UK: Britain From Above, that shows how various things look from a high perspective, using very interesting visualization techniques. One of the most interesting (for me) was an episode that showed all the air traffic in UK airspace in a 24 hour… Read more
A story that appeared Wednesday in The New York Times — but which actually dates back more than a year — reported on a U.S. Air Force program that takes lightly used, corporate-configured King Airs and turns them into spy planes — the newly named Liberty MC-12, which are used to gather… Read more
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