Virgin Atlantic airlines... NOT the best airline to fly ( Read more... )

Enjoying all the Air India jokes ( Read more... )

I saw this cute little monster at St.Louis airport:


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Left home, winging through the pre-dawn skies.


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As I took the bus to the Ibis Hotel (near the Arlanda airport) from Stockholm Central, I saw what I thought was a parked and exhibited Jumbo (Boeing 747).


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I was just musing on a few lines in a novel by Dick Francis, "Smokescreen"..."You can't keep a good Dakota down. There were two of them .....sitting on their tail wheels and pointing their dolphin snouts hopefully to the sky ( Read more... )

Life has been very hectic...visitors, visiting, travel, a lot of activities over the long (July 4th) weekend... well, one outing I enjoyed very much indeed was to the Air Show on Saturday, though the temperature was over 100 deg F, and felt like 100 deg C, sultry and stifling....

The Air Show started off with a very short appearance by the

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I always love having the window seat, but on the flight from St.Louis to Orlando, I got only an aisle one. Yet, as I saw the sun sinking in oranges and reds, I started aiming the camera....and the gentleman in the window seat (the middle one was vacant, luckily!), a paralegal from Orlando, asked me if I'd like the window. I accepted with alacrity ( Read more... )

I'll be posting the photographs on Facebook, but here are some wonderful aerobatics at the Airshow at Yelahanka, today:

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The Aero Show has got to be the most "ungreen" event I've seen...thousands of litres of aviation fuel being guzzled up, and thousands of litres of petrol being guzzled up for people to go and see the spectacle of the aerobatics....


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