With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that airplanes are vulnerable. There is nothing quite like an airline/airplane scary story to catch people’s attention. The industry safety statistics are too good to…
You have got to love state ownership if you run an airline. No pesky shareholders; all you have to do is upgrade the key people in politics and business keeps rolling along. Profits? Not the key issue. To get an…
In April we wrote about the small island’s new airport. At the time, South Africa’s Comair used one its new 737-800s to do a test flight from Johannesburg. The landing at the island proven challenging because of severe wind shear. …
South Africa’s Denel Aerostructures is a business that traces its aviation experience back 60 years. And yet you may not have heard of the company. Recently at the 2014 Africa Aerospace and Defence event, Denel announced plans to develop a…
This is the traditional image people have of tobacco. It is a product that gets little love in western countries. Indeed it is taxed as heavily as possible because so much of the healthcare system is devoted to repair damage…