Most of the time I spent at home between airline trips this month was spent polishing the top surfaces of my Swift. (Yes, I also polish the bottom.)  When I show pictures of the plane it usually generates questions about how long it takes to polish, who does it and what do they use.  The [...]

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It seems that these days we keep paying more and more to our government and in return we receive less and less.  Air traffic control centers are being consolidated and still controllers are in short supply with training going on constantly in most facilities. Flight Service stations are now operated by a government contractor and [...]

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Let’s see, you’ve just completed a 7 1/2 hour, all night flight from Tokyo to San Francisco.  How are you going to spend your time off before the next departure? Why, go flying of course… Before we left Japan I had been corresponding with @Captain_Ron on Twitter and had asked him if he was going [...]

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I am on a layover in the middle of an airline trip and was just reading through some RSS feeds that came in while I was enroute. One in particular really struck me. It was from Seth Godin (Seth’s Blog), an internationally known marketer and author. The post I’m referring to read, in part: Mike [...]

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