Flights

I belong to a few wine clubs and one of the benefits is discounted wine.  One winery Tiff and I both love, Mazzocco, had a discount on wines–and an even larger one if you bought three cases.  So the two of us went in together with Keri to buy three …

According to CBS news: A pilot and his passenger walked away after their vintage 1940’s airplane crash landed in a wooded area near the Beaver County Airport on Friday evening. News stories tend to exaggerate because it looks like he just needed to emergency land in the woods (which thankfully …

My husband recently hosted a Zero Hour! viewing party.  Many people know the lines from Airplane!, but most don’t know the lines were literally lifted from another movie–a serious movie! I recommend running a double-feature viewing party of Zero Hour! and Airplane!–but don’t show them in chronological order.  While Zero Hour! …

A few days ago, I went through vintage airline print ads I liked.  One other thing I love to check out is flight attendant uniforms, whether they are the “regular” style, or one the airline adopts for a special occasion.  Again, you can check some cool uniforms out in the …

View from the Wing offers a great look through different TV commercials for Airlines.  I love checking out old airline advertisements, and the Air & Space Museum DC location has an exhibit with old ads, old flight attendant uniforms, and classic cabin layouts that is just awesome. TWA ad (Source: …

According to photo-journalist, Laura-Chase McGehee’s twitter feed, a JetBlue flight headed to Baltimore from Boston landed unexpectedly in Philly after the cabin filled up with smoke.   Just had an emergency landing #jetblue bos to BWI. Smoke was in cabin. In Philly, I think… pic.twitter.com/47XRrNUN9F — Laura-Chase McGehee (@LauraChasePhoto) August …

Just a note that Crystal City, where you can find the airport hotels for Washington National Airport, will be showcasing movies about flights outdoors next summer. Crystal City always operates under a theme for their outdoor movie series.  I was delighted to see their theme this year, including films such …

Reader Matt C. passes on this interesting confirmation code tweeted out:   Dear Delta Airlines, I know we’ve been through some hard times together but is this really my conf number? pic.twitter.com/CJFrpbkIVa — Kathryn Stockett (@kathrynstockett) August 8, 2013   I hope this isn’t part of a set of new …

After being at a job that involves heavy travel for about five years now, I thought I learned the secret of Skymall.  It knows it is ridiculous, but its goal is to wear you down. After five years of looking at some of their products, they start looking less and …

George Hobica of Airfarewatchdog.com has a great article today on older airplanes. …the skies are full of older planes—DC-9s, 717s, early versions of the 757 and 767 and 737, to name a few. This is not to say that old planes are unsafe. That’s simply not true. But newer planes …