502 Electric and Solar Aircraft from Bye Aerospace

Written by maxflight @ Airplane Geeks Podcast

Bye Aerospace founder George Bye on electric and solar aircraft, WC-130H crash in Georgia, breaking airplane windows, supersonic transports, history of Soviet airliners, Tom Larkin’s mini-jet, Mercury 13 documentary, the centennial of U.S. airmail service, lip syncing while flying.

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435 Airline Weekly’s Seth Kaplan on Commercial Aviation

Written by maxflight @ Airplane Geeks Podcast

435 Airline Weekly’s Seth Kaplan on Commercial AviationThis episode, we talk about commercial aviation with Seth Kaplan, Managing Partner at Airline Weekly. In the news, we look at supersonic passenger jets, the third class medical reform rules, a 747 cargo jet crash, who is at fault for the Germanwings crash, the state of inflight WiFi, […]

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403 Bits & Pieces XVI

Written by maxflight @ Airplane Geeks Podcast

This is a Bits & Pieces episode, where we ask the co-hosts and other contributors to provide pre-recorded segments, then we stitch them together and it’s Bits & Pieces. NASA Interviews David Vanderhoof spent a day at NASA Langley Research Center (LRC) which is adjacent to Joint Base Langley Eustis, and he recorded several interviews. NASA […]

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AirplaneGeeks 400 That’s a Lot of Episodes

Written by maxflight @ Airplane Geeks Podcast

John Croft, Senior Editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology joins us for our 400th episode. We discuss Safety Management Systems (SMS), the IATA 2015 Safety Report, challenges for a safety culture that embraces self-reporting, and flight simulator changes that include models for high-altitude, high-angle of attack regimes. In the news, we discuss airline profits […]

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