Summary: David Parker Brown from the Airline Reporter.com blog returns as our guest. We talk about the grounding of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet, the new American Airlines livery, and using personal electronic devices on flights. David is organizing the Aviation Geekfest in Seattle February 16 and 17, 2013 with lots of exciting activities planned for the event. Also find Airline Reporter.com on Twitter as @airlinereporter and on Facebook. The week’s aviation news: All Boeing Dreamliners Are Grounded World-Wide Lithium Batteries Central to Boeing’s 787 Woes FAA airworthiness directive requires 787 battery system modification FAA Grounds all Boeing 787s. Now What? Scott Spangler Takes the Left Seat at Jetwhine.com Pilots at Memphis-based Pinnacle Airlines overwhelmingly approve concessionary contract Amazon has high hopes as FAA mulls guidance for PED use during takeoff and landing FAA To Pilots: No Personal Devices Elegant ditching of a Cessna 310 (although possibly in embarrassing circumstances) NTSB photo of Lithium Ion battery David’s Aircraft of the Week is the The Martin 167 Maryland bomber. In this week’s Australia Desk report: Qantas reduces its 787-8 order by one airframe (not related to the current AD issues) while their management is still managing to upset the their international pilots, BAE Systems to test their Taranis stealth UAV in the remote Outback areas of Australia, HNZ takes delivery of three new AW109SP helicopters for use on a ten year contract with mining company Rio Tinto, and the federal government blocks a bid by a local municipal government to have a second airport built in their area. Find more from Grant and Steve at the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, and follow the show on Twitter at @pcdu Steve’s at @stevevisscher and Grant at @falcon124. Australia Desk archives can be found at www.australiadesk.net. In this week’s Across the Pond segment: We find out this week why North Sea Helicopter Pilot Ian Grosz intends giving something back to aviation in the form of Take Off a scholarship programme focused at youngsters in Scotland. Follow @Austerpilot on Twitter. AN-12 arriving in Calgary by Ian Kershaw Mentions: B-52 flight, 50 years ago in Maine, led to key safety changes On Gratitude and Flying from the Bill Next Best Blog SAS captain uses whiskey to deice wings of aircraft The music in Pieter’s recordings: The music for both Across The Pond, Xtended and my segment on PCDU is performed by a UK band called WhiteHarts. If you would like to see where they are on the internet you can go to my Blog – AlphaTangoPapa.Blogspot.com and see the very large credit to the band along with the links to their website presence. Not saying no one has ever been there but its quite prominent on the front page below the Airplane Geeks logo. The link to me, is that my son Anthony played Bass for WhiteHarts for a while. They no longer play as WhiteHarts but all still play in some format or other. The guy singing the track I use in ATP which is called ‘Seven’, is Joe Bernie. The track I use on Xtended (called ‘Epic’) is now exclusively Xtended’s to use and has not yet been published by the band (and I think unlikely to be). The guitar infills I sometimes use you are correct are by one of my brothers, although since being involved in an road traffic accident, he is no longer able to play, which is very sad as he was very talented. And finally I am a drummer (in the very distant past) so you never know, there might one day be a percussion insert! Opening and closing music courtesy Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. You can find his great music at www.brotherloverocks.com.
