Gregory Polek
Senior Editor
Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with New Jersey Monthly magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for Aviation International News in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.
Latest from Gregory Polek
Aircraft
Eagle’s latest batch of CRJ700s starts to arrive
American Eagle’s first shipment of new airplanes in some five years began last month as the Dallas-based regional airline took delivery of two new CRJ700s
Lufthansa Orders Eight CRJ900s
Germany’s Deutsche Lufthansa has exercised purchase rights on eight Bombardier CRJ900 regional jets, the Canadian manufacturer announced last month.
Safety
Trans States, GoJet, Executive Draw FAA Scrutiny
Alleged maintenance-related gaffes at Trans States Airlines, GoJet Airlines and Executive Airlines prompted the FAA to propose more than $3.1 million in
Bagnato Replaces Mayer as ATR boss
ATR has chosen former company chief executive Filippo Bagnato to replace outgoing CEO Stephane Mayer, whose three-year mandate has expired in accordan
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
Delta sells Mesaba, Compass subsidiaries
Delta Air Lines announced last month that it has entered into definitive agreements to sell two of its wholly owned regional airline subsidiaries–Minneapol
Aircraft
Airbus to Boosts Single-Aisle Production to 40 per Month
Airbus will raise the monthly production rate of its A320-family aircraft to 38 per month in August 2011 and to 40 per month in first quarter 2012, the com
Aircraft
Airbus A321 Crashes in Pakistan, Killing 152
An Airbus A321 operated by Pakistani airline Airblue crashed this morning in the Margalla hills, north of Islamabad, killing all 15
NTSB Go Team En Route to Saudi Arabia to Aid MD-11 Crash Investigation
The NTSB is dispatching a team of investigators to assist the government of Saudi Arabia with its investigation of a cargo airplane accident that occurre
NRC Canada bridges the gap
The National Research Council Canada Institute for Aerospace Research (NRC Aerospace) generally doesn’t engage in the sort of fundamental research commonly
Engines
Superjet has full power as SaM146 is certified
Powerjet received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for the SaM146 turbofan on June 23.
Aluminum remains relevant despite trend toward composites
Notwithstanding the unprecedented scale of composites content in the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350XWB airliners, aluminum still reigns as the material of choi
Ruag preps to deliver new-gen Dornier 228
Ruag Aerospace plans to deliver its first new-build 19-seat Dornier 228 New Generation to a still-unidentified Japanese commuter airline at the end of Sept
Aircraft
Airbus Delivers This Year’s 10th A380
Airbus delivered Singapore Airlines’ 11th A380 and Lufthansa’s second A380 today, raising the number of airplanes in the in-service fleet to 33.
Engines
Rolls-Royce Wins $16 Million Cleen Program Award
Rolls-Royce has received awards valued at $16 million for its participation in the FAA’s Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions & Noise (Cleen) technologie
Mitsubishi says MRJ nearing design freeze
The time for refinements to the Mitsubishi MRJ has nearly passed, as Mitsubishi Aircraft expects to freeze the regional jet’s design within the next two mo
Aircraft
C Series moves into detailed design phase
Bombardier is about to freeze the design of its C Series airliner, marking the end of the project’s joint definition phase and the official start of the de
Engines
GE Engines ramps up production of GEnx
GE Aircraft Engines plans to build 100 GEnx engines this year and double that number next year, as the company accelerates production to meet a demand for
Aircraft
Boeing Reveals It Could Miss Year-End Target for First 787 Delivery
Boeing’s margin of error to deliver the first 787 by the end of the year appears to have dwindled to near nil, as the company comes to grips with delays as
Boeing Forecasts Sharp Rebound in Commercial Airplane Demand
Boeing’s 2010 Current Market Outlook, released today in London, projects a $3.6 trillion market for new commercial airplanes over the next 20 years, as wor
Aircraft
Boeing Chooses Site of 787 Interiors Factory
Boeing has chosen North Charleston, S.C., as the location for its new 787 Dreamliner interiors fabrication facility, the company announced today.
Engines
Leap-X tests hitting their mark
CFM International has completed the second phase of testing of the Leap-X core demonstrator known as eCore 1.
Boeing To Accelerate Delivery of Qantas 787s
Australia’s Qantas has reached a new agreement with Boeing to advance delivery of the first of eight 787-8s it has on order to mid-2012, some two years ear
Aircraft
NTSB Issues Probable Cause for Crash of Continental 737-500
The NTSB yesterday placed the primary blame for the 2008 runway excursion of Continental Airlines Flight 1404 in Denver on the captain’s “cessation of rudd
Aircraft
GE, AVIC Partnership to Supply Systems for Comac C919
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) has chosen the proposed joint venture between GE Aviation Systems and China’s AVIC Systems to supply the c
IATA's Latest Figures Reflect a Robust Airline Recovery
Traffic among the world's airlines returned to pre-recession levels in May, following a brief interruption a month earlier of an otherwise steady recovery
Airbus and Spirit Bring A350 XWB Jobs to North Carolina
Airbus and U.S.-based Spirit AeroSystems showed how European funding benefits workers on both sides of the Atlantic last week, as Spirit formally opened a
