JoeBurlas.com :: Inspire the Uninspired

After seeing a lot of outrage on social media from everything including politics to the recent United Airlines incident , I wrote something to friends and family on my Facebook account that ...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/04/its-okay-america.html

One of my favorite pilot jokes goes "how do you know there's a pilot in the room?" to which the punchline is "they'll tell you." It's funny because it carries a lot of truth and you'll find ...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/03/helicopter-ceiling-fan.html

There are some stories that we may have heard as children that gave us a mystifying sense of anything being possible. The story of Vesna Vulović would appear to be one of those. On January...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/miracle-woman-vesna-vulovic-survives-33000-feet-fall.html

I was once told by a very smart woman that, "men will always be boys no matter how grown up they seem". After reading a story about Mark Lowen, a 53 year-old grown man who SOMEHOW convince...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/man-turns-garage-into-Boeing-737-flight-simulator.html

Until recently, most of what I've written about on this website has been what interests me the most in aviation. If you go back and look you'll see a lot recommendations on aviation videos that ...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/pal-v-now-first-commercial-flying-car.html

This is one of the most bizarre aviation anniversaries I have ever known to exist. When the article was sent to me for consideration about two weeks ago, I really didn't believe it actually ...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/army-private-steals-helicopter-today-in-aviation.html

On this day in 1923, former U.S. Air Force General and Aviation record-setter Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager was born in Myra, West Virginia. Yeager is best known for being the first man to b...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/happy-birthday-aviation-yeager-chuck-yeager.html

After I started Burlas Aviation, I had an idea for a for-profit company that would that would make Aviation t-shirts. Some might suggest that there are already enough Aviation t-shirt compan...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/mat-best-i-choose-life.html

The plans and details of retiring the A-10 Thunderbolt II (affectionately known as the "Warthog") has been discussed for quite some time. An article written back in 2013 on Killing the Wart...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/a-10-thunderbolt-ii-retirement-delayed.html

In a Fox Business article that highlights a podcast, Sean O'Reilly and Adam Levine-Weinberg discuss which aircraft manufacturer makes a better aircraft, Boeing or Airbus? The discussion is ...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/who-is-better-boeing-or-airbus.html

For commercial aircraft, February 9th holds a very special place in Aviation. Both the Boeing 727 and Boeing 747 took their first flights in 1963 and 1969 respectively. From it's Wikipedi...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/first-flights-boeing-747-and-727.html

On February 8, 1988, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) retires an aircraft registration number for the first time (USA) - that of Amelia Earhart's Electra 10E, which disappeared over...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/amelia-earhart-registration-retired.html

This website was originally intended to contain my journey as a student pilot and various articles about aviation that I found interesting. One topic in particular that I have seemed to writ...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/first-chinese-built-aircraft-carrier.html

Today marks the 14th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident when the shuttle was destroyed re-entering the Earth's atmosphere at roughly 9 AM EST on February 1, 2003. Seven astro...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/space-shuttle-columbia-accident.html

When I began this website back in 2004, it was to chronicle my thoughts as I moved through the service to my country in Iraq. From there it morphed into a blog containing random thoughts fro...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/02/share-your-flying-adventure.html

On January 19, 1937, Howard Hughes flew non-stop from Union Air Terminal, Burbank (now Bob Hope Airport) in California to Newark Metropolitan Airport in New Jersey in his Hughes Aircraft Com...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/howard-hughes-flies-nonstop-ca-nj.html

Before I get too critical of American Airlines I'd like to say that I've been a huge fan of the new look that American Airlines is presenting to their traveler base. The uniforms appear to b...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/american-airlines-uniforms.html

On January 18, 2005, the Airbus A380 is revealed to an ecstatic crowd in France. The A380 is currently the largest passenger carrying aircraft in commercial service. The A380's upper deck ex...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/airbus-a380-revealed.html

History.com ran a pretty cool article titled "10 Fascinating Facts About Charles Lindbergh " and in an effort to keep this Aviation history alive, I wanted to share it's contents below. O...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/ten-facts-charles-lindbergh.html

According to ThisDayinAviation.com , on January 17, 1906, Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin’s second airship, LZ 2, designed by Ludwig Dürr, made its first—and only—fl...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/lz-2-zepplin-takes-first-flight.html

The underwater search for MH370 is now at an end, according to various media reports, without any luck finding the final resting place of the downed aircraft. I had hoped that this would wra...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/search-halted-for-missing-mh370.html

On January 14, 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt became the first United States President to travel on official business by aircraft. According to a History.com article , "on this day in 19...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/fdr-takes-first-presidental-flight-on.html

Today we say farewell to one of NASA's most beautiful souls and the last Astronaut to have walked on the moon, Gene Cernan. I've always enjoyed hearing Gene's interviews and I believe he saw...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/gene-cernan-dies.html

This occurred last night while I was sleeping. It's important we don't weigh in on speculation while allowing the accident investigation to take its course. Reports are still coming in about ...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/turkish-cargo-plane-crashes.html

On this day in Aviation, January 15, 1976, British Airways took delivery of it's first Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde (G-BOAA). Scheduled flights began the following week on January 21st via two ...

http://www.joeburlas.com/2017/01/british-airways-receives-concorde.html