Archive for April, 2006
Monday, April 17th, 2006
Riding shotgun on a 757
(this post enabled by Channel 9 on United Airlines, which allows passengers to listen in on pilot communications between aircrews and ground-based air traffic control)
Radio traffic at an airport: it’s the lingo-heavy, acronym-ridden, fast-as-bullets communication that powers the immensely complex operation of moving hundreds of planes together safely and quickly. The heavy hand of technology […]
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
Stars
On Thursday night we pulled into the airspace around Seattle, finally returning me home at the end of my six-flights-in-six-days week. I looked up through the window and could see the faint charcoal pink of the setting sun, set long ago but still valiantly struggling to reflect off the uppermost layer of clouds as night […]