Unless you have enough miles or cash to fly business or first class, air travel is uncomfortable. You’re squashed in like sardines, possibly having to deal with annoying people, like…
planes
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Unless you’re in business or first class, flying is not a super-duper lot of fun. And why should it be? I mean, you’re part of a coupla hundred people in…
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There are few things more uncomfortable on most modern day airplanes than the lavatory. Your maneuvering room is limited to about 3 feet by 3 feet (if you’re lucky), the…
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Travel
Astrophysicists May Have Found The Fastest Way To Load A Plane
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegEveryone wants to load a plane faster. Airlines want it because it’ll get them off the ground on time. Passengers want it because it’ll get them to their destination faster.…
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You may have heard about a plane “dumping fuel” before. The definition of it is pretty self-explanatory…the plane has X amount of fuel and it throws out, or “dumps” (although…
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When Joe and I were en route to Iceland and took our first post-COVID flight (which, as it turned out, wasn’t really post-COVID), MCO –> JFK, we were a little…
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You’ve just boarded your aircraft and maybe you’re feeling a little smug because you already know so much stuff, like why planes still have ashtrays (even though smoking on planes…
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Funny Stuff
They Live Near An Airport & Complained About Plane Noise. The Responses Were Classic!
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegWhen I was a little girl, we lived pretty close to JFK and frequently had planes flying overhead. I grew up with it, it was a way of life and…
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Have you ever thought about all the stuff that goes into designing and building a plane so that it can fly 35,000 feet in the air (by the way, here’s…
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Airlines
What Do You Do With 144 Retired 747s Lying Around? Start An Ultra Low Cost Airline!
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurheg2020 was the year of coronavirus, and, understandably, an absolutely horrible year for airlines. It was also the year of airlines retiring many, if not all of their 747s, as…