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Mexicana's JATO-Equipped Boeing 727-200s
Mexicana operated a unique variant of the Boeing 727-200 that had JATO provisions to allow full payload operations out of high elevation airports like…
Nov 12, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
SERA: Making the Grumman S-2 Tracker Flyable
Single Engine Rudder Assist was an automatic system that made the short-coupled Tracker flyable in a single-engine situation.
Nov 11, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
The Mountain Master: Frontier's Convair 580s
The outstanding high altitude performance of the Convair 580 in Frontier service led to it being nicknamed "The Mountain Master"
Nov 10, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
The Boeing 777 Worst Case Rejected Take-Off Test: Dallas/Fort Worth
The worst case scenario in a rejected take off scenario for the Boeing 777 belonged to British Airways- a hot day at DFW, fully loaded for London.
Nov 9, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
What Does the Boom Overture Supersonic Airliner Design Have That Will Change Historical Paradigms?
We posed this question to aviation journalist Jon Ostrower given that the history of commercial airliner development has not favored designs with…
Nov 5, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
Minoru Yamasaki and Lambert St. Louis Airport
Yamasaki's 1955 design for the Lambert terminal changed the visual vocabulary of what an airport should look like.
Nov 1, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
October 2022
Air Canada's Rapidair Shuttle Services
Launched in 1972 to link Toronto and Montreal, Air Canada's Rapidair now includes Ottawa. Rapidair was where Air Canada debuted their Boeing 727s.
Oct 31, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
The Gatwick-Heathrow Airlink 1978-1986
Though rivals, British Airways and British Caledonian worked with the British Airports Authority to operate a scheduled helicopter service between the…
Oct 30, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
The RBS Express: The Trains of the Strategic Air Command
For ten years, SAC used radar bomb scoring equipment mounted on trains to create a constantly changing set of practice targets for its bomber crews.
Oct 28, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
Air Oregon: Filling the Gap, 1977-1982
Air Oregon was one of a number of airlines that filled the gap left when bigger airlines dropped services to smaller communities after deregulation.
Oct 27, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
"Fighting to be Heard": Pick Your Edition
Meet the inaugural book publication from La Jetée Press, "Fighting to be Heard: How the British Aerospace 146 Started the Regional Jet Revolution" by…
Oct 27, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
Airtransit: Canadian Interurban STOL 1973-1976
Airtransit was a joint venture between Air Canada and Transport Canada to test the feasibility of high frequency STOL services between Montreal and…
Oct 26, 2022
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JP Santiago MD
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