On 5th of march 2014, the spanish Flight Training School Adventia European College of Aeronautics flew for the first time in aviation a flight with two pilots wearing Google Glasses. It is the first time…
On an airplane legend. Boeing 747 (Rollout 45th…
The 747's story is the story of its Principal Engineer, Joe Sutter, it is the story of Boeing, it is the story of the "right plane", it is the story of "The Incredibles", it…
On learning to fly (Gliding)
aeriaA as a website about aviation tries to cover all the topics. But there is one basic topic that is the primary reason of writing about airports, technologies applied to them, aviation history, interviews…
On the beginnings of drones
1962, one of the Cold War's Milestones, the Cuban's Missiles Crisis and the Blockade, John Glenn the first american orbited the Earth in the NASA's Mercury Program, Neil Armstrong as a test pilot, among others,…
AirTalk with…Perry Rees, more than 35 years at…
Welcome to a new AirTalk, this is with Perry Rees (LinkedIn profile), he has a huge airline and aviation IT projects related experience. He had worked at British Caledonian, British Airways, EDS, SITA, Logica and…
On Mobile use at Commercial Aviation. An introduction.
[Article's update] This article was written at the beginning of 2013, so since the Personal Electronics Devices are allowed since 2014, I update this post with a new section at the end of it. Few…
On the origins of the Airline’s Electronic Reservations…
In the first part of this series, I talked about the early steps taken by Aviaco and Iberia in order to mechanize the reservations processes, one of these steps was an IBM study for collecting the…
On the beginning of Stealth planes. From Cold…
I've been reading a book of the Skunk Works (Lockheed Martin's Advance Development Programs) history, and the story about the beginning of the stealth planes trapped me. This is a tale about spying, project management,…
On the origins of the Airline’s Electronic Reservations…
This is the my grandfather's story about the one of the first european airline's electronic reservations systems. Photo. UNIVAC 494 The beginning of this story took place in late 50's, the local spanish airline Aviacion…
On Project Management and Joint Strike Fighter Program…
In the final article of the JSF posts series (Part I, Part II) I want to talk about (sorry this post is a little bit arid :) ): Lessons learned and the positives risks of…
On Project Management and Joint Strike Fighter Program…
In the first post (On Project Management and Joint Strike Fighter Program (part I)) I introduced the JSF contract competition and I started to talk about Project management thoughts related to the Nova documentary about…
On Project Management and Joint Strike Fighter Program…
I highly recommend you to view the following video about the Joint Strike Fighter contract competition for building the new All-in-one fighter for the USAF, Marines and Navy. You almost need two hours for watching…
That’s one small instruction for a machine, one…
Let's me take the most famous quote in the Space Race history from Neil Amstrong. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" One month ago, an ex-colleague @mt_aertec shared a link…