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Boeing Makes History On October 26th Again …

Fifty-three years ago today, on the evening of October 26th 1958, crowds gathered to witness history, the first Boeing 707-121 commercial passenger flight. Pan Am’s “Clipper America” (N709PA) flew from Pan Am’s Wordport, at New York’s Idlewild Airport to Paris’ Le Bourget Airport with 11 crewmembers and 111 passengers for eight-and-a-half hours. The Boeing 707’s…

Cookie Monster Ponders United & Continental Merger

POST EDITED 30-APRIL-2011 at 9:25am EST : This post erroneously originally stated the video in this post was created by Jon Ostrower. The post is corrected to reflect that Jon posted a video created by ‘Jetsetter.’   Flightglobal’s Jon Ostrower, author of FlightBlogger, posted a video, from ‘Jetsetter,’ today that ponders the United Airlines –…

FlightBlogger Digs Up “Building The 747-100” … the movie!

If you like commercial airliners there is one journalist you should be reading on a daily basis … Jon Ostrower. Jon, the brilliant author behind Flightglobal’s FlightBlogger, covers Boeing like no one else. Not only does Jon get into every nook-and-cranny of what is going on with Boeing’s commercial airplanes, but he does it a…

You Might Be An Airline Geek If… : Aviation Geek Jeopardy Coming Soon!

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com— E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 8/12/2009 – You Might Be An Airline Geek If… : Aviation Geek Jeopardy Coming Soon! If you are familiar with comedian Jeff Foxworthy’s “You might be a redneck,” jokes then you’ll clearly understand the reference to “You might be an airline geek if…” A few weeks ago I threw out a…

Flying With Fish Named To Mashable’s “28 Awesome Aviation Pros on Twitter” List

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 12/11/2009 – Flying With Fish Named To Mashable’s “28 Awesome Aviation Pros on Twitter” List This afternoon Mashable.com released its ‘28 Awesome Aviation Pros on Twitter’ list. It came as no surprise to me that #1 on the list was Benet Wilson, Aviation Week’s Online Managing Editor for Business Aviation….

Guest Posts From My Favourite Bloggers : Dan Webb – The Next Future CEO of Some Airline Somewhere

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 23/09/2009 – Guest Posts From My Favourite Bloggers : Dan Webb – The Next Future CEO of Some Airline Somewhere As a photographer, traveller and airline industry geek there are a few blogs I read on a daily basis. With the broad range of readers that Flying With Fish attracts…