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A recent spate of sackings at Boeing tell a familiar story about tunnel vision management and much needed talent that may never return, writes Ben Sandilands.

The US safety investigator the NTSB has now set two special 787 related hearings for this month around which the FAA, the air safety regulator will have to fly as it decides when to allow the grounded Dreamliners to return to the skies, writes Ben Sandilands.

Bob Gosford likes planes and likes light. And he really likes the light that planes make at night, which he has chronicled in photos over the last year. Just don’t ask him how he did it …

A huge order of Airbus’ from Lion Air, placed 18 months after a similarly large Boeing order, exposes a weakness in foreign ownership rules for Australian domestic airlines, writes Ben Sandilands.

An overworked and under-trained air traffic controller endangered two flights in July 2011, according to a new report, writes Ben Sandilands.

No-one in the 1980s in Australia saw the future direction of aviation with more clarity and purpose than James Strong, who has died at 68, writes Ben Sandilands.

There is much uncertainty about where low fare airlines are headed in Australia even though it is closing in on nine years since Jetstar started services as the first such carrier, writes Ben Sandilands.

Japan’s aviation safety authority has released a photograph of charred Boeing 787 batteries. It illustrates Boeing’s overt and defence strategy, writes Ben Sandilands.

What China Southern offers Australian travellers to Europe is insignificant beside the main game, which is to corner as much of the surging China-Australia market as it can, writes Ben Sandilands.

A Japan aerospace official’s admission that the government eased safety regulation to ‘assist’ progress of 787 certification carries dire implications, writes Ben Sandilands.

Following an in-flight emergency yesterday morning, Japan’s airlines have grounded their fleets of 787 Dreamliners. Crikey’s aviation blog Plane Talking has the latest.

A ten-year-old’s campaign to have Canberra airport named after the late David Warren, inventor of the black box, has moved up a notch, writes Ben Sandilands.

Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has stepped into Tony Abbott’s no-policy hole and announced the Coalition will build a second Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek, writes Ben Sandilands.

Barry O’Farrell thinks there are votes in not building a second Sydney airport, but recent reports suggest the opposite may be true, writes Ben Sandilands.

The NSW government may ambush the Gillard government’s peculiar and opaque resistance to a second Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek, writes Ben Sandilands.

In the wake of repeated calls in the Howard and Rudd governments for a larger VIP plane for the prime minister, Gillard is in the market for new wings — and Plane Talking’s Ben Sandilands has some suggestions.

It has taken far too long, but the general media focus on a second Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek has started to look at the jobs it will create, writes Ben Sandilands.

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary’s recent outburst against wearing seat belts in jets is the latest in a pattern of odd behaviour, writes Ben Sandilands.

The long anticipated NSW government approval of a housing estate just over the state line near Canberra will cripple the capital’s airport and creates huge opportunities for new economic growth in Melbourne and Brisbane.

At last week’s Qantas AGM, nobody asked about Alan Joyce’s controversial decision to ground the airline’s fleets or how the company’s partnership with Emirates will win back passengers. Where, asks Ben Sandilands, where the burning questions?

Ron Yates, former Qantas CEO and an illustrious son of the company, has died in Sydney. Ben Sandilands pays tribute.