Jun 20, 2021
Join Carlos, Matt and Armando for this week's programme. We were joined by special guest Rob from SkyDemon - Europe's favourite VFR flight planning software.
In this week's show Ryanair gets Maxed out, a Boeing 787 bows
down before staff at London Heathrow, and one airline gives you the
chance to fly on the Queen of the skies to sunny ole Mallorca .
In the military The USAF has a way to convert commercial grade
Jet-A fuel to military grade JP-8, Numerous aircraft land in
Morocco for an exercise, the US Marines explain that they "may
have" shaken California awake, and we get a quick UK Warbird
update.
In the last one of this series, Captain Al talks to Matt about Weather Avoidance in the latest Plane Truths.
If you want to see what we got up to last month check out these
highlights:
https://youtu.be/KXASgGW2Wy8
George Lee Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ZcH6hbU-FNNcOGErTMUFrYIQmX5NYI7
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Here are the links to the stories we featured this week :
QUEEN AWARDS INSPIRATIONAL PILOTS WITH MBE IN BIRTHDAY
HONOURS
https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/people/queen-honours-world-first-horsham-airline-captain-3270783
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-57445463
https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/people/queens-birthday-honours-inspirational-northamptonshire-pilot-awarded-mbe-for-services-to-aviation-3270341
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/994908/Queen_s_Birthday_Honours_List_2021_-_Gov.uk_-_FINAL.docx.pdf
https://twitter.com/flyingdisabled/status/1403616643494916096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://www.flyingdisabled.org.uk/biography/
RYANAIR’S FIRST 737 MAX LANDS AT DUBLIN AIRPORT
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/ryanair-s-first-737-max-due-at-dublin-airport-1.4595141
https://www.flightradar24.com/47.08,-123.22/7
BA 787 DAMAGED IN NOSE-GEAR INCIDENT WHILE PARKED AT
HEATHROW
https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/ba-787-damaged-in-nose-gear-incident-while-parked-at-heathrow/144221.article
https://twitter.com/MZulqarnainBut1/status/1405804165067067394
PARTIALLY BLIND JAPANESE NATIVE SHINJI MAEDA CAME TO THE U.S. TO
BECOME AN AVIATOR. THEN HE TOURED THE WORLD.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/after-22000-miles-and-18-countries-he-landed-in-snohomish/?fbclid=IwAR2a0syz0lY4wbHi-VJHYNSv68ySz-f_j6HUshesDDuz8h14CgcVcDaDUgw
CATHAY WORKING WITH AIRBUS ON SINGLE-PILOT SYSTEM FOR
LONG-HAUL
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive-cathay-working-with-airbus-single-pilot-system-long-haul-2021-06-16/
LUFTHANSA TO FLY TOURISTS TO MALLORCA THIS SUMMER IN JUMBO JETS
AND AIRBUS A350S IN RESPONSE TO A SURGE IN BOOKINGS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-9684019/Lufthansa-fly-tourists-Mallorca-JUMBO-JETS-Airbus-A350s-response-bookings-surge.html
AVGEEK ALERT! YOU CAN SOON SLEEP IN A BOEING 727 AT THIS
AVIATION-THEMED HOTEL
https://thepointsguy.com/news/aerotel-hoedspruit-boeing-727-vip-suite/
http://aviationphotographs.net/FrontierAirlines/Aircraft-B727/N7273F.html
https://zephyrnet.com/boeing-727-set-to-be-turned-into-luxury-hotel-experience/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boeing-727-set-to-be-turned-into-luxury-hotel-experience
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/aerotel-plane-hotel-boeing-727-hoedspruit-limpopo-12-june-2021/
MILITARY
UPDATE : CONTRACT AGGRESSOR AIRCRAFT CRASH AT NELLIS AFB
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/ntsb-report-military-combat-plane-that-crashed-near-nellis-afb-had-wing-flap-issue/article_cdb63aba-cb00-11eb-800e-9bf833a00db2.html?block_id=994400
THE US AIR FORCE (USAF) RECENTLY DEMONSTRATED A PROCESS FOR
CONVERTING COMMERCIAL-GRADE JET FUEL TO MILITARY-GRADE FUEL
https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/usaf-demos-converting-commercial-grade-jet-fuel-into-military-fuel-for-agile-operations/144192.article
SEVERAL U.S. AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT INCLUDING F-16S, C-130S, AND
KC-135S HAVE DEPLOYED TO NORTHERN AFRICA FOR THE CONTINENT’S
LARGEST EXERCISE, AFRICAN LION
https://www.airforcemag.com/air-force-planes-morocco-exercise-african-lion/
SONIC BOOM UPDATE IN SAN DIEGO
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41058/marine-corps-admits-the-origin-of-the-san-diego-skyquake-was-probably-them
A UK WARBIRD AVIATION UPDATE
http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/a-supermarine-spitfire-super-saturday-at-north-weald.html
SALLY B UPDATE
http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/b-17-sally-b-adopts-ads-b.html