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• Aviation and steel in the Agri-Plex
  Aug 30, 2010 — The Morning Call
  So the Allentown plane "could have been one of several different pushers," he said. Steelworkers will appear every day and will be available for questions. The archive's Speakers' Bureau will give presentations on Centennial Stage on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday at 3:15 pm.
• Some interesting, historic planes roost in South Florida
  Aug 29, 2010 — Sun Sentinel
  They are small but important part of the region's buzzing aviation activity. South Florida is home to more than 5,000 general aviation planes, corporate jets, military planes. Among them: A Boeing (NYSE:BA) 727 at North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, a European fighter-jet trainer at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport and military surveillance planes in Lantana.
• Premium air routes aim to put jets in faster lanes
  Aug 28, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
  But air-traffic controllers have no way to distinguish planes outfitted with the latest tools from those with older systems. They will save about 12 seconds of flight time for every mile trimmed from a flight path, the carrier estimates. The continuous descents should be quieter, since pilots set engines to "idle thrust," and smoother since they avoid traditional stair-step approaches. The benefits are proven.
• Protest greets Mexican officials on recruiting trip to Dallas
  Aug 26, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  ...recruiting trip Tuesday, only to be greeted by union workers protesting job losses. About 30 union members and officials, mostly from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, picketed outside the downtown Dallas Sheraton, where the aviation conference was held. American aviation, aerospace and defense companies have been sending work to Mexico since the 1980s, costing thousands of jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth, said Jody Jack, president of Machinists union...
• Former Tampa director Miller a finalist for Atlanta airport head
  Aug 24, 2010 — Tampa Tribune
  ...new $1.4 billion international Terminal, expected to open in 2012. TAMPA Former Tampa International Airport director Louis Miller on Monday was named one of three finalists to lead Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest passenger airport since 1998. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed named Miller, Lester Robinson, former chief executive of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, and John D, Clark III, who formerly led Jacksonville's aviation authority and...
• Mexico aviation woes reach north into U.S.
  Aug 24, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
  A holding company called Tenedora K, made up of Mexican firms Grupo Industrial Omega and Grupo Arizan, among others, bought a 95 percent stake in the carrier. Continental would have marketed Aeromar's flights between Mexico City and other Mexican communities Continental doesn't serve. That deal is on hold until the FAA upgrades Mexico's ranking.
• AA mechanics given Charles E. Taylor Award
  Aug 10, 2010 — Tulsa World
  We are grateful for their service to the industry and hope for others to follow in their footsteps." Denton's aviation career began in 1956 when he entered the Air Force. In 1972, Denton joined American Airlines, where he held many production management positions before retiring. He spent 21 years with American Airlines in various positions, including mechanic, production control, fleet operations and outside service tech representative.
• Aircraft industry is pulling out of tailspin
  Jul 23, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  Its Chicago rival, Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) , landed 103 orders worth around $10 billion. By leasing, airlines can get new planes without a huge investment. The next day he struck a deal for 54 of the popular 737 commercial jets from Boeing.
• Farnborough indicates thawing in aircraft industry
  Jul 23, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  Its Chicago rival, Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) , landed 103 orders worth around $10 billion. By leasing, airlines can get new planes without a huge investment. The next day he struck a deal for 54 of the popular 737 commercial jets from Boeing.
• Letter: Air Safety Legislation
  Jul 22, 2010 — New York Times
  On March 22, the Senate unanimously passed an F.A.A. reauthorization bill to improve safety in air travel and to increase consumer protections for air travelers. Unfortunately, as your editorial mentions, senior Democrats in the House of Representatives insisted on including “the unrelated issue of unionization rules” in the bill, effectively stalling it. Lamar Alexander Bob Corker Washington, July 20, 2010 The writers are Republican senators from Tennessee.
• Steven Udvar-Hazy returns to aircraft leasing in a big way
  Jul 20, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  No matter how good of a deal it was.
• Special Report: Aviation: From Nothing to a Global Hub for Aviation
  Jul 19, 2010 — New York Times
  The airlines, however, Emirates of Dubai, Etihad of Abu Dhabi and the discount airline Air Arabia of Sharjah, are relatively new arrivals on the scene. Mubadala said 10,000 people would be needed to work in Abu Dhabi’s new aviation and aerospace plants and the goal was to fill those jobs with local citizens. Airbus and Boeing are already on site, and aviation job boards are heavy with Middle Eastern help-wanted advertisements.
• Airlines eagerly awaiting jetmakers' more fuel-efficient craft
  Jul 18, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  Aboulafia expects Airbus to move forward with re-engining the A320 planes for the Pratt and Whitney engine. Boeing is holding its cards close. The company is working on a LEAP X engine design that officials have said could be ready around 2016.
• State honors private aviation
  Jul 16, 2010 — The Columbus Dispatch
  Last year, Strickland founded the Ohio Aerospace and Business Aviation Council to re-start other attempts over the years to attract and retain businesses in those industries. Under then-Gov. James A. Rhodes decades ago, Ohio launched a drive to put an airport in every county as an engine of economic development.
• Boeing building in works?
  Jul 14, 2010 — The Post and Courier
  Childress Klein has proposed an Oct. 1 start date. Design plans also call for a neighboring, 340,000-square-foot warehouse. Nearby, Venture Aerobearings makes bearings for aviation industry clients.
• NextGeneration air traffic system holds new promise for airways
  Jun 27, 2010 — Tulsa World
  We looked at some airports that had operational challenges -- mostly at high altitude mountain airports. "It started a movement of using on-board avionics to fly these airplanes. We can fit a bunch more aircraft into the airspace using NextGen technologies. "NextGen promises significant increases in our abilities to reduce delays, shorten flight times and use less fuel.
• Another aviation company opens at Logistics Center
  Jun 20, 2010 — The Virginian-Pilot
  The larger Ocean Sentry can fly for about nine hours without refueling, compared with about four for the Falcon, according to the Coast Guard website. Seven Ocean Sentry aircraft are in operation in Mobile, Ala., and in Miami, Hale said. The Coast Guard plans to eventually have 36 Ocean Sentries in operation. The Airport Authority leases lots along one edge of the vast Coast Guard complex south of Elizabeth City.
• Oklahoma City aviation company executive weathers economic onslaught
  Jun 20, 2010 — The Daily Oklahoman
  A proprietary database includes all Federal Aviation Administration aircraft registration records. Literally, I've never seen anything in an industry hit a brick wall as fast as the aviation industry did. I'm starting to gobble up everybody's business.
• Aerospace execs try to salvage tax credits
  May 31, 2010 — Tulsa World
  ...law in 2008. The bill and tax credits became effective Jan. 1, 2009. The aerospace engineer tax credits contributed to the hiring of 288 aerospace engineers in Oklahoma in 2009, industry executives said. The engineering tax credits go both to Oklahoma aerospace companies that hire aerospace engineers and to the engineers themselves. They are detailed as follows: A tax credit for companies of 10 percent of the wage cost of an Oklahoma engineering graduate for the first...
• State aerospace leaders trying to save tax credits
  May 27, 2010 — Tulsa World
  ...bill and tax credits became effective Jan. 1, 2009. The aerospace engineer tax credits contributed to the hiring of 288 aerospace engineers in Oklahoma in 2009, industry executives said. The engineering tax credits include those for Oklahoma aerospace companies hiring aerospace engineers and tax credits for the engineers themselves. They are detailed as follows: A tax credit for companies of 10 percent of the wage cost of an Oklahoma engineering graduate for the first...
• Bell CEO wants company to become gold standard again
  May 24, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  After three decades, development of the often controversial and problem-plagued V-22 Osprey is largely complete. And there's more to do." The commercial side of the business, which two years ago couldn't meet demand for new aircraft, has been hit hard by the economic downturn. You do what you say you're going to do." What Garrison doesn't do is provide details.
• 30 years after Mount St. Helens blew, the volcano reveals its secrets
  May 16, 2010 — The Oregonian
  Helens caught scientists by surprise in March 1980. Ongoing eruptions are rebuilding the mountain and revealing to geologists the hidden workings of volcanoes. But when the dome-building eruption ended in 2008, Mount St.
• FedEx, UPS square off over 230-word provision in FAA reauthorization bill
  May 16, 2010 — The Commercial Appeal
  FedEx Ground packages are less urgent, lower value and never travel by air. FedEx Ground workers are covered by the NLRA, but union organizing efforts have been unsuccessful. UPS touts itself as a fully integrated delivery service. UPS statistics for 2009 indicate up to 16.5 percent of domestic packages were considered air freight.
• Dallas aviator was a force in the plane and the boardroom
  May 8, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  Thayer, a Navy fighter pilot credited with six confirmed kills of Japanese planes in World War II, joined Chance Vought after the company moved to Dallas. Thayer moved up the ranks and was made president in 1961 after the company was acquired by Ling-Temco, forming the conglomerate Ling-Temco-Vought and later LTV Corp. Thayer enlisted in the Navy's Aviation Cadet Program.
• Volcanic ash snarls Scottish, Irish air services
  May 5, 2010 — Denver Post
  Similarly in Northern Ireland, Belfast's two airports kept operating but the main airport to the west, Londonderry, was closed. And while Dublin was gridlocked, operations continued normally at Ireland's other two main airports to the west in Shannon and Cork.
• Teamsters video jabs FedEx founder
  Apr 29, 2010 — The Commercial Appeal
  It centers on the website . FedEx has been battling UPS over the issue for more than a year.
• Europe resumes some air travel
  Apr 20, 2010 — Denver Post
  Europe began to emerge from a volcanic cloud Monday, allowing limited air traffic to resume and giving hope to millions of travelers stranded around the world when ash choked the jet age to a halt.Even then, however, the eruption from the Icelandic volcano that caused the five days of aviation chaos was said to be strengthening and sending more ash toward Britain, which could make it unlikely that London airports would reopen today.Three KLM passenger planes ? bound for New York,...