The skills and expertise of veteran pilots are crucial to airline organizations, as well as to getting you where you need to go. The flight-attendant crew is also an important element in the flying process: Attendants try to keep everything running smoothly on each flight, and they deal ...
The skills and expertise of veteran pilots are crucial to airline organizations, as well as to getting you where you need to go. The flight-attendant crew is also an important element in the flying process: Attendants try to keep everything running smoothly on each flight, and they deal ...
These giant tri-motored cabin cruisers carry 12 passengers, 2 pilots and a cabin steward. Two trips are made daily, with an average flying time of but 1 hour and 45 minutes.” ‘American Airways’ (1930-34) issued only a few different postcards. All are hard to find, and here is ...
Captain Laura Savino takes you directly into the cockpit for an exclusive look into the boy’s club of airline pilots—told through the eyes of the first female pilot many of them ever flew with. “No math,” Laura’s counselor told her in high school. “That would ruin your GPA.” La...
airline jobs including Pilots and Stewardesses (later known as Flight Attendants), were held in high regard. These jobs were (and to some extent still are) highly sought-after. Those that held these positions were looked up to by children and often considered ‘dream jobs’. Marketing capitaliz...
At first, pilots tried to make approaches and landings like props, often from circling traffic pattern maneuvers. The problem with this was that pure-jets do not spool up as quickly as a piston engines do and this led to accidents in which rate of sink could not be corrected in time. ...
Each Kellogg’s box contained the phrase, “wear the wings of the famous pilots”. Kellogg’s issued 6 Junior Wings in the USA, including Eastern, TWA, National, Northwest, Continental, and United. Additionally, it is believed that Kellogg’s issued at least 1 Junior Wing in Canada from ...
From left: Captain Sölvi Þórðarson and Captain Kári Kárason were the pilots on the inaugural revenue flight to Stockholm I’ve reviewed Icelandair’s757,737 MAX, andDe Havilland Canada DHC-8service in the past, and those observations are still valid. ...
break the merged airline’s unions and abrogate its labor contracts. One of the ugliest confrontations between airline management and unionized airline employees, the 1983 Continental Airlines pilot strike which led to the airline’s striking pilots being terminated by Lorenzo, would never have ...
It also had a completely new flight deck design, requiring only two pilots instead of three or more and incorporating computer screens. TWA introduced this successful aircraft type on 2 December 1982. On 1 February 1985 a TWA 767 operated the first trans-Atlantic scheduled passenger service under...