there's an excellent series on pbs now called "carrier". a film crew went out on the aircraft carrier nimitz for a long period and was given a great deal of exposure to the crew and operations. one
Time to knock the cobwebs out and get to business. Its learning time again. Upgrade class is now 2 weeks away and the preparations have begun. All 3 of the flying bibles have been regularly opened and
Things could be worse. Actually, things could hardly be better. But I have been, in a way, speechless for four days now. The wi-fi connection I was hijacking
I don’t know any statistics about superstition (and don’t really want to know any), but the fact is here: many airlines are affected by superstitious passengers. Typically, most of them ha
In the eighties, every kid wanted to fly F-14's off aircraft carriers, now they're actually going to want to fly the "rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong".
I don’t know a lot about Lausanne but hopefully that’s about to change. After a bit of a refresher in North Weald, I’ll be braving a border-crossing into Switzerland: flying to Lausa
I've lost count of the number of times we've been asked this question, and I know it's something a lot of people are at least curious to know the answer to, so I thought I might try to answer it here.
Remember when you were a kid and everyone of your young friends and perhaps even yourself, dreamed of being an astronaut, a medic or a police officer? Remember how great the world seemed like with al
In the airline biz, one of the “perks” we as employees receive is (somewhat) free, space-available non-revenue travel. Provided there are open seats on the aircraft, we (employees and imme