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Carlos, Nev, Armando and Matt bring you a weekly Podcast that will focus on the Commercial and Military Aviation news relating to us long suffering members of the general public.

May 31, 2020

Join Carlos, Nev, Armando, Matt and Mentour Pilot Petter Hörnfeldt for this weeks recording of the PTUK Aviation Podcast.

We had a great chat with the one and only Mentour Pilot and Armando talks to Bob Mills about his time as a Naval Aviator, Airline Captain and President of the Sports Class at the Reno Air Races in the first part of a new interview series.

There was the usual round up of the latest commercial news too.

Check out Mentour Pilot at his channel at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpHKudUkP5tNgmMdexB3ow

This is the reporter Petter mentioned : https://www.seattletimes.com/author/dominic-gates/

The Pilot Programme Petter mentioned : https://theairlinepilotclub.com/

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Here are the links to the stories we featured this week :

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Delta will fly the final MD-88 and MD-90 flights on June 2nd https://aeronewsglobal.com/delta-will-fly-the-final-md-88-and-md-90-flights-on-june-2nd/

EasyJet to cut 4,500 jobs and reduce capacity https://www.ft.com/content/73e0664c-14a6-4b35-b5ff-2fa37a33db65

Major fire at Bombardier’s aircraft factory in Belfast https://ukaviation.news/major-fire-at-bombardiers-belfast-site/?fbclid=IwAR2isPDfHIaDZecCCfQKgrCknuFR6YqmXFMVojujLoNX5ImV726imQFWq5w

EMIRATES PRESIDENT TIM CLARK DENIES RUMOURS OF MASS A380 RETIREMENT
https://samchui.com/2020/05/23/emirates-president-tim-clark-denies-rumours-of-mass-a380-retirement/#.XtLljzpKjIV

Boeing restarts 737 Max production https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/boeing-restarts-737-max-production/138571.article

Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs, thousands more planned
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-jobs/boeing-cutting-more-than-12000-u-s-jobs-thousands-more-planned-idUSKBN2332EP?feedName=businessNews&feedType=RSS&MessageRunDetailID=1893545432&PostID=15445088&utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io



SpaceX makes history with successful first human space launch https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/virgin-orbit-provides-more-details-about-what-went-right-with-its-first-launch-demo/ 

Russian Student Stranded In Frankfurt Airport https://simpleflying.com/russian-student-stranded-in-frankfurt-airport/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=daily&utm_campaign=22052020