The heavens, man has looked up to them since the dawn of time. It is with great wonderment that children lay on the ground and dream of going into outer space, walking on the moon visiting a foreign planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has built dreamers since its creation in 1958….
Do you like Flying With Fish?  Silly question, if you didn’t like Flying With Fish you wouldn’t be reading this blog post. As of now you can take Flying With Fish with you, read it on the plane, in the train, with a crane and even in Spain anytime you’d like on your Amazon…
Yesterday morning, just after 9:00am, the air was chilly in Boston, but there was a sense of anticipation in the air. At first glance the profile of the aircraft approaching Boston Logan International Airport’s Runway 22L could have been nearly any aircraft, possibly a Boeing 767 or even an Airbus A330, but as the aircraft…
Airline passengers around the world have long since laughed at unusual airport codes, which I previously wrote about here, Reader Mail : What Are Some Funny & Odd Airport Codes? When your airport’s slogan is “Fly SUX,” such as Sioux City’s Sioux Gateway Airport, it is hard not to laugh. While airline passengers can…
For the past few months on a nearly daily basis the same image appears somewhere in my Twitterstream, Facebook Wall, Google + feed or in my email box … often more than once a day. The photo is a beautiful image of dozens of aircraft lifting off from Runway 27L at Germany’s Hannover-Langenhagen Airport. The…
On December 17th 1903, a morning, not unlike today, sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight become a reality in Kill Devil Hills, Dare County, North Carolina, when Orville and Wilbur Wright launched the Wright Flyer into the skies and into history. The Wright Brothers’ Wright Flyer, 21 feet 1 inch long, constructed of giant spruce…
The Airbus A330 is a popular wide body aircraft, with more that 820 Airbus A330s flying, and another 1,150+ orders for the aircraft waiting to be built and delivered, this plane can be found with airlines around the world. The Airbus A330-200 is a large aircraft, at 192.97 feet long, 18.50 feet wide,…
Airline alliances are made up of autonomous member carriers, frequently airline websites will have some legal wording that separates what an airline has on its website from its alliance, and its fellow alliance members. Egyptair, having never been a member of an airline alliance before entering Star Alliance, came into Star Alliance as the…
It has been almost four years since I wrote about airline and airport terminology … so today is as good a day as any to revisit this topic. Airline and airport jargon questions show up all the time on my Twitterstream and in my email box, so clearly people are interested knowing what they are…
Moose Peterson is a world renowned wildlife photographer, landscape photographer, camera bag designer and he literally wrote the book on Nikon. While my interests were never in wildlife photography, I was hooked at Moose’s work at the age of 16 when I received my copy of the Nikon System Handbook (now in it its sixth…
