Category Archive: Off the Runway

Britain From Above – Air Traffic » Contrail Science

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 period. That involved …

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King Airs to Kandahar – US Using King Air’s as Spy Planes – Flying Magazine

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 intelligence on enemy …

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Pilot Gets Prison Time in High-Profile Case – Flying Magazine

Former Platinum Jet pilot Francis Vieira, 61, was sentenced to six months in federal prison on Monday for his role in fraudulent activity that led up to the crash of a Challenger 600 charter jet in 2005, which veered off the runway after a failed takeoff attempt from Teterboro Airport. During court hearings last year, …

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AFP: Cathay reviews ad campaign after sex scandal

HONG KONG — A sex scandal has forced Cathay Pacific to review a marketing campaign that bills the airline as “the team who go the extra mile to make you feel special,” a company spokeswoman said on Sunday. The Hong Kong carrier launched an investigation last week after photos were published on the Internet of …

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