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SKY BLUE RADIO ANNOUNCES VA DAYS 2015!Featuring FREE advertising for virtual airlines. Sky Blue Radio will be celebrating VA Days the weeks of April 1st through the 17th.During those two weeks Virtual Airlines will have the opportunity to promote their virtual airline for FREE on Sky Blue Radio and will be eligible to win one […]

The award-winning creators of the best-selling Train Simulator franchise have today announced a global licensing deal with Microsoft, granting them the rights to develop and publish all-new flight products based on Microsoft’s genre-defining flight technology.   The company is currently investigating new concepts in this area and is expecting to bring a release to market […]

Tonight starting at 0100z – 0300z, I will showcasing 3 great indie bands that are cranking! I will be showcasing: (links provided) Goodnight NeverlandSISTER KILL CYCLESunshine & Bullets What does this have to do with aviation? Nothing!Just great new tracks from new artists to listen to while youare at FL320. Make sure to tune in […]

Congress Passes Small Airplane Revitalization Act Woodrow Bellamy III    Congress approved a bill that updates regulations on Part 23 aircraft components and technology Thursday, Nov. 14. Called the Small Airplane Act of 2013, H.R. 1848, will requires the FAA to implement the Part 23 Aviation Rulemaking Committee’s (ARC) recommendations by Dec. 31, 2015.  “H.R. […]

American-US Airways Merger Cleared for December Woodrow Bellamy III American Airlines and US Airways will close their proposed merger by Dec. 9, after their revised plan was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, Nov. 27.      Photo, courtesy of American Airlines.   The revised merger […]

Imagine the next time you take a flight, you are asked to turn over your electronic devices. That’s right, your laptop, tablet and smart phone. And when you arrive at your destination they are given back to you broken into pieces. You wouldn’t tolerate this, would you? This is exactly what people traveling with motorized […]

  The first addition to the Boeing 787 family took off Tuesday from Paine Field, near the factory where the plane was assembled, to the cheers of a couple of hundred Boeing employees who watched the blue and white plane with a number 9 on the tail rise into a cloudy sky.The 787-9 took off […]

 Allegiant Airlines took more than half of its fleet of MD-80 aircraft out of service Friday to inspect emergency slides, four days after passengers and crew members deployed the devices to escape to the tarmac when smoke was reported on an Allegiant plane in Las Vegas.Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent company of the airline, […]

If you’re heading to Fairbanks International Airport in Alaska, you may want to pull out a map instead of your iPhone. At least twice in the past three weeks, out-of-town drivers who followed directions on their iPhone’s were led across the runway to the airport ramp side of the passenger terminal. And they followed the […]