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December 29, 2009

Continental Pilots Note Anniversary of No-Contract Ops

ALPA Claims Pilots Are "Giving Back" $200M A Year Without New Contract

As of Dec. 31, 2009, ALPA tells ANN that Continental pilots will see another year pass without a new contract in place. The current concessionary agreement that helped keep Continental out of bankruptcy was signed in April 2005 and became amendable on Dec. 31, 2008.

Alaska Pilots Raise Funds, Distribute Checks to Furloughees

T'is the season... as ALPA tells us that Alaska Airlines’ furloughed pilots recently received a holiday gift from their fellow pilots in the form of a check. In a little more than a month, Alaska Airlines’ pilots—joined by some of Alaska Airlines’ crew schedulers and planners and management—contributed $24,000 to the Furloughed Pilots Christmas Fund, the brainchild of Alaska First Officers Will McQuillen and Nate Chilman, who both were furloughed from a different carrier prior to coming to work at Alaska.

Additional Conversions Are Underway

Israel Aerospace Industries' Bedek Aviation Group (IAI/Bedek) received a Civil Aviation Administration of Israel (CAAI) Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) on December 17, 2009 and an FAA STC on December 21, 2009 for its prototype B767-300BDSF (Bedek Special Freighter) aircraft.

Here's Hoping It Does Some good

It never hurts to make nice with the Boss/President... especially when he hasn't had such a great track record with all things aviation... but Greg Principato, president of Airports Council International-North America, has commended President Obama for ordering the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to review “screening policies, technologies and procedures related to air travel.”

Educational Director, Larry Wood, Profiles the Infamous Spruce Goose

In July of 1942, while the United States remained embroiled in World War II, famed industrialist Henry Kaiser proposed a fleet of flying transports to safely protect troops and supplies from German U-boats. Joining forces with Howard Hughes, Kaiser obtained an $18,000,000 government contract to construct three “Flying Boats.” Due to government restrictions on critical war material, such as steel and aluminum, Hughes used a process called “Duramold” to create almost every part of the plane. Using a plywood-like series of thin wood laminations, engineers built an airframe both lighter and stronger than aluminum. The resulting wooden aircraft

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ANN 2009 In Review: The Year In Commercial Aviation

ANN's Annual Review Of The Year That Was: Commercial Aviation In 2009

The commercial airline industry saw several milestones in 2009, including the first flight of the long-awaited Dreamliner. But the year was marred with tragedy as well, and the economy continued to cause airlines to scramble for ways to improve the bottom line.