It's that time of year again, with snow swirling and ice crusting all over the place. Anyone who’s flown into or out of cold climes in winter has no...
19/12/2013
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AvGeeks
If you fly with any frequency, a phrase heard over the public address system, “crew, slide arm and cross check” is likely to ring a bell. That “slide arm”...
12/12/2013
Being a “legacy airline” with a national identity can be a complicated business at times. We are of course extremely proud of our history and heritage as Spain’s first...
10/12/2013
As a fan of contraptions of various sorts, I'm always curious about the stuff other people carry around, and every once in a while I've shared a few shots of this...
05/12/2013
Can this really be a scale model of an airport? When watching it on video for the first time, you'd certainly be forgiven for thinking it's real, and you wouldn't be the first... or last.
28/11/2013
One of the first things we learn in school about geometry (more specifically, plane geometry) is that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Obvious, isn't...
28/10/2013
Most of the time, we find ourselves passing through expansive airports with amenities and services galore, and nice, wide, long runways. And then, of course, there are the other airports. The...
22/10/2013
In 1958, an Australian mathematician, chemist, and aeronautical research scientist named David Warren (right, with a prototype) came up with an invention based on a brilliant idea: recording all the...
17/10/2013
Spectacular aircraft photos abound all over the Web these days–shots taken on runways, in hangars, taking off/landing, at cruising altitude. And many of us who glance at them, sometimes think, “how cool,”...
03/10/2013
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