Slips Over First Six Months Of 2008; June Traffic Plummets 2.7
Percent
The first of likely many reports of monthly drops in airline
passenger traffic numbers was released Thursday. The number of
scheduled domestic and international passengers on US airlines
during the first six months of 2008 declined by 0.4 percent from
the same period in 2007, dropping to 378.2 million, according to
the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation
Statistics.
The US Army Gets Some Serious Bang For The Buck Via AVCATT
Outside of military circles, you are unlikely to have heard of AVCATT... one of the Army's most aggressive efforts yet to maximize the realism and mobility of one of its most crucial flight training and simulation efforts. AVCATT? What the hell is an AVCATT, you might ask?
If you travel an airline in the US with checked baggage, on any
given day, the chances your bag will be lost or damaged is a little
over one-half of one percent. It's frustrating and aggravating to
lose your clothes or toiletries... but what if the airline lost the
remains of a deceased loved one?
Max-Viz Inc. recently announced the first EVS-1500 installation
on a Bell 206 helicopter operated by Gig Harbor, WA-based charter
and flight training outfit Columbia Flyers.
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