747 Boeing 747, the Queen of the Skies

An upcoming listener survey, the Engine Cowl aviation news, Christmas Trees and B-17’s, Spirit Airlines’ debtor-in-possession (DIP) credit agreement, Poor Little Lambs (The Baa Baa Black Sheep Story), and making the Airplane Geeks Podcast. Rytis Beresnevicius, the Engine Cowl Ryt ...  Show more

We look at the Air India Boeing 787 crash and the friction between investigators, Boom Supersonic’s plan for stationary power generation, Spirit Airlines’ new labor agreements, the canceled TSA labor contract, DHS purchase of Boeing 737s, ethics and the FAA Administrator, the V-2 ...  Show more

When a piece of an Alaska Airlines flight blew out into the sky in January, concern and scrutiny focused once more on the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing.

Sydney Ember, a business reporter for The Times, explains what has been learned about the incident and what the implica ...

Warning: This show has been marked as explicit This week we saw some of the most significant news about Boeing's 737 MAX; Ethiopian Airlines has penned a deal with the planemaker to fly the jet yet again, after being involved in the deadly crash in 2019. In this episode of the Wo ...  Show more

Nous sommes en 1970 et le Boeing 747 est enfin prêt à décoller. Mais la mise au point de ce mastodonte des airs à coûté une petite fortune à Boeing, qui se retrouve au bord de la faillite. Il va falloir du temps et bien des sacrifices pour que l’entreprise se remette d’aplomb.Heu ...  Show more

It’s the late 1980s and following the A320 crash at the Habsheim Air Show in eastern France, the safety of Airbus’s computerized flight system is being called into question. But Boeing’s got troubles too. Airlines aren’t warming to its latest product proposal, it’s losing mark ...