I’ve been lucky enough to get to travel the world for work over the past thirty years. I’ve flown to and in many countries. The only equivalent to my current choice was in the late 2000s, when I was working in the Democratic Republic of Congo and was booked on several local airlines - but in that ca...
Jump to postJust saw it. Nose open, and now fueling. Is it normal to fuel the day before takeoff?
Jump to postWondering about the cargo. According to this account, it’s last swing into North America was to deliver (a lot of) PPE.
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/ ... 22002.html
This is so exciting for me and my kids - we live about two hours south, in Portland, Maine. We can't make it there today but are planning to drive up tomorrow, but I'm afraid it might be gone. I called the airport to find out if there's an ETD, but no luck. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to de...
Jump to postI spent a few months in DRC about a decade ago. With no roads, flying is pretty much the only way to get between places. I remember coming into one airport, and seeing wrecked planes along the sides of the runway. The UN operates it’s own private airline, but if you’re not eligible, there are only a...
Jump to postA mildly interesting and very tangential aside: prior to World War I, elaborate facial hair was very common for men. But chemical warfare made gas masks standard issue, and they didn't work if one wasn't clean-shaven. That meant that standard issue - along with those masks - included (at least for A...
Jump to postAnybody who smokes obviously knows this, so I make this general comment not from logic or even an aviation standpoint, but from an emotional one... My Dad, of all people, knew how terrible cigarettes were for him, and he understood - probably better than anyone - the grip tobacco addiction has on hi...
Jump to postI'm wondering about the bigger picture. I think most or many would agree that big airline, commercial aviation has never been safer from a technological standpoint. I remember reading somewhere that we're entering an era where most future airline disasters will be caused not be technical flaws, but ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/HaveBlue" class="quote" target="_blank">HaveBlue</a> (<a href="#152" class="quote">Reply 152</a>):<br/><i>Quoting wardialer (Reply 133): I reall...
Jump to postI've been lurking here a lot and just joined mostly as a way to thank a.net for the bandwidth and expertise. I have to say that I've found the group dynamics of this forum as the days wear on to be both fascinating and sometimes disturbing. It seems that there's more and more name-calling, posturing...
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