Boeing Reports Record Revenue and Backlog and Provides 2013 Guidance
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) reported record fourth-quarter revenue of $22.3 billion (Table 1) and core operating earnings (non-GAAP) that increased by 9 percent to $1.8 billion, driven by strong performance across the company's businesses and higher deliveries of commercial airplanes.
Missionary Aviation in the 60's - Wings Over Guyana
The American missionaries who came to serve the people of Guyana were faced with many challenges. My parents came in 1960 and stayed until 1966. In those days, the runway at Paramakutoi Village in the Roraima Mountains where we lived, was not paved. In fact, there were no paved interior runways.
The longest scheduled commercial flight
Captain Feriel Ally - Guyana’s second-ever female pilot of turboprop aircraft, by Clifford Stanley
Saturday, 14 July 2012 22:10
“I love the challenge of flying aircraft in Guyana’s hinterland; I just love bush flying,” were the words of Captain Feriel Ally of the local Air Services Limited (ASL), the first-ever Guyanese female to be certified to operate aircraft with turboprop engines.
Captain Feriel Ally
EZ Jet CEO Sonny Ramdeo arrested and charged in the USA
Sonny Ramdeo the CEO of EZ Jet Air Services has been arrested and charged in the USA for a $20 Million Payroll Tax Fraud Scheme. EZ Jet was founded by Ramdeo and started service in December 2011. He stepped down as CEO in July 2012 following a lawsuit by a hospital chain charging that he diverted more than US$5 million from their payroll account to his airline.
George and Helen grandsoult with 8R-GDJ (#1)
This aircraft crashed in Ekereku Bottom after landing in deep sand. It is still there to this day, George then acquired his Islander 8R-GDJ (#2) to replace this Cessna 207.
Aircraft on survey mission in Mazaruni area (Region 7) is missing
A search-and-rescue operation was underway Sunday November 02, 2008 after a plane hired by a Canadian mining company disappeared in the Amazon jungle of Guyana.
The aircraft N87V, with three people aboard, was doing uranium survey work for Prometheus Resources Guyana Inc., a subsidiary of U308 Corp. of Toronto.