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San Jose Aviation
Green transportation is about more than hybrids and light rail
Green Transportation
August 7, 2011
Ian Wright, CEO of San Jose’s Wrightspeed Inc., is in the green transportation business, but he doesn’t sell the Toyota Prius or the...
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Dizzy Heights: Silent Cinema and Life in the Air
Aviation
February 21, 2012
The great French artist Fernand Léger once said, "The cinema and aviation go arm in arm through life; they are born on the same day."...
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Heading for the Spruce Goose in Oregon? Check these out (Part 2)
Spruce Goose
August 17, 2011
Heading for the Spruce Goose in Oregon? Check these out (Part 2)San Francisco residents who are heading for the Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes'...
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Spruce Goose in Oregon, what to see (Part 1)
Spruce Goose
August 17, 2011
Spruce Goose in Oregon, what to see (part 1)Heading to McMinnville, Oregon? San Francisco residents, and every other world traveler for that matter...
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F-16 goes off end of runway at EAA's AirVenture
Airventure
July 28, 2011
An F-16 landing behind it's partner, another F-16, went off the north edge of the 36 runway at the Wittman Regional Airport at approximately 11...
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One hundred years ago today in SF Bay: airplane first lands on a ship deck
San Francisco
July 18, 2011
On July 18, 1911, something extraordinary happened in the middle of the San Francisco Bay: for the first time in history, an airplane successfully...
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Amanda Youngkin's struggle after aircraft accident comes to an end.
Amanda Franklin
May 28, 2011
It is with heavy heart that I report that Amanda Younkin Franklin succumbed to her burn wounds tonight, the result of an accident on March 12, 2011...
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Why the Southwest incident should not frighten you.
airline
April 3, 2011
On April 1, Southwest Flight 812 encountered a decompression event and was forced to land at a Marine Corp air station in Yuma. Part of the...
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Oceano Airport under threat of closure.
Autos & Motorcycles
April 18, 2010
Every day General Aviation airports are threatened by developers wanting to bulldoze them and put up another office building or row of ticky tacky...
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Is General Aviation safe?
Autos & Motorcycles
February 19, 2010
There have been many articles published since the Austin tragedy regarding the safety of General Aviation. It would appear most of the articles...
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