Third in a series (see bottom for parts 1-2).
By the late 1960s, the decade had turned into one of great upheaval, with momentous events including the Prague Spring, France's tumultuous...
25/07/2014
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2nd in a series
In 1954 Iberia decided to refresh the look of its flight crew uniforms, and they turned to Pedro Rodríguez, a Catalan designer originally from Valencia. Nothing...
18/07/2014
The first in a series.
Picture it: 1946. World War II had just come to a close, and the 21-year-old Iberia Airlines was launching its first transatlantic route between Madrid...
11/07/2014
A couple of months ago we let you in on a quartet of unusual airports, in New Zealand, Honduras, and the Caribbean islands of St. Maarten/St. Martin and Saba....
18/06/2014
Several years ago, during a planespotting photo shoot near Barajas Airport, I tuned in via airband radio (able to receive but not transmit on frequencies used by pilots and...
11/06/2014
Many workplaces have "break rooms". For longhaul airline crews, this means a rest area that provides a space to get in some crucial sleep in order to be in...
06/06/2014
There are of course all different kinds of models of aircraft, each with its pros and cons. When it comes to identifying them on sight, one of the features...
20/05/2014
Talking about aircraft naturally means talking about aircraft speed. That after all is the element that creates the airflow which in passing across the fuselage wings generates the lift...
14/05/2014
When it comes to aviation, and commercial aviation especially, the number-one consideration is of course safety. Airplanes are highly complex machines whose various components obviously need to work safely...
06/05/2014
Many of those who feel passionate about commercial aviation find ourselves occasionally in doubt about identifying one or another aircraft model, so we thought you might appreciate a handful...
30/04/2014
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