The Takeoff | NAIA Terminal 3, Manila, Philippines
That moment. The plane roars as it sets in motion, and on that very second the plane lifts from the ground, the engine calms and the heart skips. That is one of the best moment of traveling.
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On this day in history, 1964: Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow arrives at New York’s JFK Airport, marking the Beatles’ first visit to the United States. The band was greeted by more than 3,000 screaming fans as they stepped off the plane!
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NASA’s Iconic Red Vortex Photo: “The Rest of the Story”
The physics of producing lift with a wing creates an aircraft wake which has a large vortex (tornado) generated at each wingtip. The strength of this vortex increases as aircraft weight increases. The flow from a wingtip of a crop duster picks up the seeds or chemicals and sends them far from the area directly below the aircraft. The strong spinning flow in the vortex can also cause a problem for other aircraft under some conditions. NASA and the FAA had done extensive research beginning in the 1970s and continuing today to understand and predict flow behind transport aircraft to determine safe separation distances (spacing of aircraft). We believed that this research could help the “Aerial Applications Research” program, perhaps, if the physics of the flow behind crop dusters could be understood, predicted, and tamed.
Because we see computer images on TV of airplanes the size of counties flying over a map of the U.S., we come to think of the airspace as crowded. In reality, the airspace is not crowded. Instead, the runways and the arrival queue of airplanes lined up to land are crowded. The airplanes are spaced in the queue that keeps each safely following an airplane away from the spinning wake vortex of the previous airplane.
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THE AIR UP THERE An air traffic controller monitored aircraft movement from the control tower at Manchester International Airport in England Thursday. (Photo: Phil Noble / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)
POLITE SUGGESTIONS WITH ZOOEY D. #1
Dear Alex Chilton and The Box Tops:
I seriously love you guys. I mean you guys rule. You’re a classic band. But I thought you might be able to use a few polite suggestions on purchasing a plane ticket.
1. Demanding a plane ticket can be off putting. “Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane,” sounds a bit rude! May I suggest you say something like, “hello ma’am or sir, I’d like to buy a ticket to ___, please.”
2. To whom are you explaining all of this? The ticket agent? FYI the ticket agent definitely doesn’t care why you’re buying a plane ticket. The ticket agent just wants your money, not your explanations.
3. If you had time to wait around for a letter to arrive in the mail, why don’t you have the time to take a fast train? Is there a fast train, like the acela, or TGV, that goes to your destination? I say, take the train, because right now you seem a tiny bit over eager.
4. I’m not sure about this girl, I mean if she “couldn’t live without you no mo’ ” why can’t she call you on the phone and tell you that? I’m suspicious of foul play here. I mean, do you have any enemies?
5. Lastly, “I don’t care how much money I gotta spend” sounds a little bit braggy. I mean, if you REALLY don’t care, then get a chopper, and be done with it, but don’t go waving proverbial wads of cash in front of everyone like you own the place, and expect that no one will take advantage of you.
I hope you have enjoyed my POLITE SUGGESTIONS.
Sincerely
Zooey d
Anonymous asked: what is going on with this blog? i miss your hysterical commentary on all things travel. happy holidays, return soon!
I miss it too!
Dubai Aerial
Photo and caption by Roberto Giostri
“From the cockpit of a B747 at 07:40 in the morning approaching Dubai International Airport, all I had was my iPhone camera!”
If you have a cell phone, and you’re taking pictures, you’re a photographer. You may not be doing it for a living; you may not be doing it as a hobby. It may be both. It may be neither. It may be instinct.
But you’re capturing an image, which is either crap, or art. And crap or art, it’s an image.
And capturing it makes you a photographer.
FACT.
A plane flies through a Google Maps satellite image.
Next up: UFO’s.
Umpire Jim Joyce ruined Detroit pitcher Armando Galarraga’s perfect game last June—a call that he now openly admits he made in error. Joyce endured months of death threats, nasty emails and subsequent security detail. Other people, like these Detroit airport baggage handlers, reacted differently.
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WOW
One fiesty filmmaker just made some musical dreams come true. Dutch airline KLM will operate a flight from Amsterdam to Miami on March 21, and it all began with a Twitter user’s complaint a la “how do I get to Ultra!?”
According to Springwise.com, a Dutch filmmaker planning to attend the Ultra Music Festival in Miami tweeted about the lack of a nonstop flight between Amsterdam and Miami. So, KLM’s Twitter team responded that if the filmmaker’s group, called Fly2Miami, could reserve 351 seats before Dec. 6, then KLM would add the flight on March 21.
Springwise.com reports that the group — which includes DJs, promoters and “professional party people” — booked all the seats in less than five hours.
“We can rightly call it a first — the first time KLM will deploy an aircraft following a request on Twitter,” said Martijn van der Zee, vice president of e-commerce at KLM. “Social media are becoming more and more important to KLM to offer information and service to our customers.” Bravo, BR – A – VO.
WOW is a word for it. Power of social media FTW.
@KLM adds a nonstop flight based on a Twitter request. Awesome!
