Airplane Geeks Podcast - Latest Comments

Re: Episode 36 - Gorgon Stare | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Johnn Plane — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:22:11 -0000

Same problem here......

Re: Episode 36 - Gorgon Stare | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Adam — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:12:52 -0000

iTunes picked up the new entry in RSS, but the file itself isn't downloading...just fails.

Re: Episode 34 - Ranting with Rand | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Johnny Plane — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:29:55 -0000

Hey Guys,
Great show as always. I wanted to comment on the House Transport story. If they pass this bill it will just open the door to more regulation, very dangerous considering all the thing the government has been doing lately like the LSAP. The less regulation the Better!
Thanks John From Airviation

Re: Episode 34 - Ranting with Rand | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Rand Peck — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:55:19 -0000

Thanks fella's
Rand

Re: Episode 33 - Air Pigz with a "Z" | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Tom Tuura — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:22:01 -0000

great edition as always, love your news intro music...takes me back to the old days

Re: Episode 27 - Talking Airplanes with Richard Aboulafia | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Aircraft For Sale — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:15:21 -0000

Nice To Read It And I Regularly Go Through With Airplane Geeks Newsletter....
Richard Aboulafia Was Really Very Funny Person....

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Re: Episode 29 - Branding with Shashank Nigam | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Max Flight — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:22:21 -0000

Well, that's pretty interesting. I hadn't encountered the VFW-614 before.

Most of what you read about the unusual placement of the engines says this was a deliberate design choice. The Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... says over-the-wing engines "allows for more space within the fuselage and reduction of drag at higher speeds." I did read something once that painted a different picture - that placement solved some engineering problem and was not originally intended. Unfortunately, I cannot find the source.

Just today there is an AP story that says hiring at the North Caroline plant is running ahead of plan. "...the company now employs about 400 people at the plant. The company expects to employ more than 500 workers when it starts delivering planes at the end of next year."

Source: http://www.wlos.com/templat...

Re: Episode 29 - Branding with Shashank Nigam | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Guenther Fleischer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:45:47 -0000

In this PODCAST I recall you saying that the HONDA JEt was innovative because of the engine being overwing or something to that effect. Well the German VFW-614 had already this design in the 70's. But is was not a runner and was only produced in small numbers.
Something reminds me of cameras and cars......japanese copies...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Episode 28 - Good Riddance 2008 | Airplane Geeks Podcast

tawan235 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:23:59 -0000

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Re: Episode 28 - Good Riddance 2008 | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Chirag C Doshi — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:25:12 -0000

I Am Happy To Read It.... This Was Nice Post....

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Re: Episode 28 - Good Riddance 2008 | Airplane Geeks Podcast

Ravi — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:20:46 -0000

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Re: 2nd Aviation New Media Meet-up

Max Flight — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:16:53 -0000

Try it now. We've made some improvements in our technique and the audio is better. Hey, we're learning!

Re: 2nd Aviation New Media Meet-up

smc — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:59:54 -0000

Hey guys,

I enjoy your show, but the sound is terribe. Even with headphones I have to constantly adjust when the person speaking changing. SOmething must have gone wrong. Please look into this as, downloading from ZImbabwe is time consuming and expensive and if I then cannot listen to it in confort....

Re: 2nd Aviation New Media Meet-up

Jane Adams — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:02:33 -0000

Well what do you know? Susan Pruitt is alive afterall and made it to her roundtable podcast. Since you quit returning your employee's phone calls and emails, we figured you died. I notice your website is not nearly as robust as it was yesterday. Is that maybe because you've been locked out of the original website for non-payment of services and you had to do a quick mock up for appearances sake? And what happened to your staff? Did they quit maybe because you lied to them and then disappeared after making false promises? It's rather frustrating to see you promoting yourself as a legitimate business woman and editor when you owe your web designer money and you strung us along for weeks selling bogus ads for what we thought was a legitimate business. Advertisers BEWARE! I would think twice about giving her your credit card number and I certainly wouldn't give her investment capital. I smell a scam.

Re: Episode 22 - Flight Plan Magazine Editor Susan Pruitt

Jane Adams — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:50:33 -0000

Susan Pruitt "hired" at will a few women from HireMyMom.com. She had a very compelling story which she used to hook us. We were to work on a commission basis selling adspace (not an easy job) and we were so excited that we all began to work immediately and had some solid prospects. One of my former co-workers has a web design background. So when Susan told us a sad story of how another web designer had run off with her $2000 (or $3000 depending on who she talked to) and never created a website (ha!) this new hire spent 40 or 50 hours helping Susan design a new website back in early October at about 1/4 the cost because she felt bad for her. Susan now owes that woman $520 and won't return her calls and had been using the old "checks in the mail" story. She promised us contracts,and salaries after several weeks since we were all working so hard. Then the calls were further apart and finally she just stopped returning calls and emails after promising contracts and checks were to be forthcoming last week. Please read the woman's story who designed her website at this address:http://flightplanmagazinesc... SHAME ON YOU SUSAN for taking advantage of us. Hope your magazine FLOPS like a fish out of water.

Re: Episode 16 - ‘Flyer Talk’ with Randy Petersen

Max Flight — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:13:35 -0000

The engines on that A400M are made by Europrop International http://www.europrop.aero), a consortium of Industria de Turbo Propulsores, MTU Aero Engines, Rolls-Royce and Snecma. [General Electric, of course, is a partner in Snecma. Again demonstrating that national borders don't mean too much in this industry.]

These beasts weigh 1860 kg, are 3.5m long, and produce 11,000 shaft horsepower each. Europrop says it "will be the most powerful turboprop in the West."

Those great FH386 propellers are a Hamilton Sundstrand product [again, with that international factor!] produced by Ratier-Figeac, a Hamilton Sundstrand affiliate in France. An Article in Areospace Online (http://tinyurl.com/3q9856) notes the "FH386 propeller system is a 17.5 foot-diameter propeller with eight all-composite blades providing more than twice the thrust of C-130 propellers." The four of the power the A400M to mach 0.72.

Re: Episode 9 - “I Might as well be Naked”

william — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:14:44 -0000

any chance this book might be available to read online?

Re: Episode 10 - Aviation New Media Meet-Up

Courtney — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:05:11 -0000

Scott,

Thanks for the comment. Max and I get along great, mostly because Max is able to put up with me. ;)

Re: Episode 10 - Aviation New Media Meet-Up

Scott Gilliland — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:50:38 -0000

Well done gentlemen! Keep up the good work. I can't believe that you guys had never met before starting the podcast; you both get on quite well with each other. I enjoy listening.

Re: Episode 10 - Aviation New Media Meet-Up

miller22 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:40:22 -0000

This is only a list of people who joined the meet-up. Airliners.net did not join the discussion.

Re: Episode 10 - Aviation New Media Meet-Up

cwiara — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:22:59 -0000

It's very annoyed that u haven't in a guest list anyone from airliners.net, and u wanna call yourself best aviation site without best photo-plane-show site...? heh just funny u are...

Re: Episode 1 - Improving Service at the Airlines?

bluestreak — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:52 -0000

Henri,

Thanks for the note. I know one of the areas we'd like to discuss in a little more detail is the European airline industry. There's a lot going on over there, especially with a certain Italian airline (but I won't name names).

Courtney

Re: Episode 1 - Improving Service at the Airlines?

Henri — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:02:38 -0000

Actual and interesting, I really enjoyed it... Great work, keep it up :)
Thumbs up from Finland.