In the Aviation/Aerospace industry, Manufacturers, Airlines, AMO/Repair Stations, and Distributors all conduct Receiving and Shipping Inspections of their aircraft parts. I have experience with all of these, so I thought I’d share some critical observations. First a little sarcastic humor from the distributor community: Salesman: “I meet my quotas by buying everything as quickly as I can issue PO’s. If it gets through my Receiving Inspectors it must be good…” Salesman: “I secretly drop ship ever...

It’s amazing how fast this data accumulates in a short period of time, so here’s the latest compilation in summary-highlights form for your reading pleasure. Number of Laser Incidents in 2018 TSA Busiest Day Ever, And Various Interesting Stats Global Airlines 2019 Profit Forecast Cut European example of Trains competing with Air Service CFM56 Milestone Achievements US Aerospace and Defense Industry 2018 Performance Interesting Highlights From the FAA Aerospace Forecast 2019-2039 Boeing 2019-2038...

You’re on your honeymoon. Your eyes are a-glaze with thoughts of a tranquil reverie with your beloved. Soon the honeymoon will be over and you’ll come home to the new reality of the challenge to make the relationship work. And so it is with airlines…but how so?  You have a new and young fleet. The aircraft, engines, and components are covered by warranty. Even as those warranties expire, it will be some time before many of those parts reach their forecasted MTBR’s (Mean Time Between Removals). A...

To lawyers and quality geeks, the careful selection of words one uses to communicate is a source of constant musing. Because of this I’m amazed that preflight passenger briefings continue to use a curious mixture of potentially confusing words for the inexperienced passenger. For example, “posted placards”. Huh? What’s a placard? Also, “no congregating around the forward lavatory”. Congregating? Are they expressing a religious restriction? I’m offended. Why not just plainly call a placard- signs...

As promised, here is part I of 2019’s compilation of Facts, Figures, and Forecasts (F3). I normally would have posted this later this year, but there was a considerable abundance of data, so here ‘tis. By the way many of you have shared your like for this information, so I’ll keep gathering it for periodic postings. The source citations are at the very end. Here are the data listings, in this order: Share of Global Commercial Aircraft Fleet Controlled by Lessors Average Age at Retirement vs. Ret...