GUEST BLOG (By Kyle Hwang, intro by David): From time to time I will have guest bloggers talk about something they specialize in. Recently I was connected with Kyle who is an 18 year old student living in Pretoria, South Africa and attending University of Pretoria studying BSc Actuarial and Financial Mathematics. He enjoys plane […]
I keep seeing some creative ads out there and almost blog about them, but haven’t gotten around to blog about them. Well slacking off works in my favor this time, since there have been quite a few and I can talk about them all in one blog. Here are my favorites: * Southwest Airlines is […]
In the first half of the 1900’s airline travel boomed. During World War II, there was a shortage of materials for making aircraft and proper runway facilities. Because of a lack of proper airports, the popularity of flying boats soared (get it soared?). Flying boats were purpose-built to land on the water and provide air transportation […]
Last week I showed a photo of Hawaiian Airline’s brand spanking new Airbus A330 and it had a fancy lei on it. I asked how many flowers do you think it took to make the lei? Via the comments and people emailing me I received over 60 guesses. They ranged from 330 to 330,200 (both […]
Last week I posted this video from YouTube showing a Korean Air Boeing 777 having a rough landing. Then, it vanished from YouTube and from around the net. I tried to find another copy, but no luck. Then a reader, Ruben, found another copy. Thank you very much! Any landing you can walk away from is […]