Taking Wing

For some time I've been following a cool podcast put out by an airline pilot named Joe called Fly With Me . Most recently, he posted som...

At altitude, most airliners pressurize for a cabin altitude of around 8000 feet. The average passenger, inert in their seat, will not notice...

Every century, there are a few events which have the power to freeze time for all those who live through them. Three very different such eve...

The captain I'm flying with, Keiko, snapped this picture through the Heads-up Guidance System (HGS) display.

Well! If it's Tuesday, it must be Helena. This is my fourth trip in a row on trip #611, ie Helena & Spokane overnights. I was planni...

Well, I see that the media devoted a full day and a half of good coverage to the destruction and suffering in New Orleans and elsewhere on t...

I came back from hiking today (yeah, I worked up the motivation...even went up a mountain I haven't been on before) and sat down to watc...