Posts tagged with "Aviation"
My personal favorite:
“Folks, we have reached our cruising altitude now, so I am going to switch the seat belt sign off. Feel free to move about as you wish, but please stay inside the plane till we land. It’s a bit cold outside and if you walk on the wings it affects the flight pattern.
“Dawn Departure” by Phillipe Clairo
jetBlue has some of the coolest offers I’ve ever heard of in terms of air travel. This newest one seems pretty awesome. If you book a plane ticket for any flight after 12 Noon on October 31st (Halloween), the ticket is only $31.
I thought there was a catch, but apparently there isn’t. Seats left on flights between any city are only $31. I almost want to fly somewhere exotic just to say I did.
This is crazy! For $599, you can fly as many times as you want to any of jetBlue’s destinations. I haven’t checked out the fine print, but jetBlue is usually pretty good about things like that. Too bad I’ll be up at school, because this would be sick.
A really cool article about general aviation aircraft and the popularity/vulnerability of the Hudson River corridor route, a popular one with student and private pilots in the New York area. Some pretty nice pictures too.
I just found about the Manhattan Airport project and after thinking about it for like 10 seconds, I thought to myself - how is this even legit enough to have a website and people that read it? It’s such a stupid idea.
Let’s think about this for a second:
- The New York area is home to some of the busiest airports around: JFK, LaGuardia and Newark are all within miles of each other.
- Air traffic controllers can barely keep up with the traffic they have now.
- The FAA is trying to limit and reduce the number of landings going into the New York area to prevent controller overload.
- There is no feasible way to coordinate approach paths over and into the middle of the city.
- Can someone say terrorist attack?
- Like there isn’t already enough traffic in New York City.
- Good idea, let’s remove the only trees and green grass remaining in New York City.
- Placing an airport in between airports it already takes hours to get to seems pointless.
I think I should stop this list because I’m getting angry as I’m writing. How is this an idea at all? It’s like some guy was bored one day and said hmm, what do I wanna do - let me devise a plan to destroy a major landmark, park and slap an airport in the middle of New York City. We’ll just chop all the trees down because “it’s what out ancestors would want us to do” and “hey, it’s undeveloped anyway”.
Idiots.
As cool as this looks, there are so many reasons that this is the stupidest idea I’ve heard in a while. Like really stupid.
Central Park -> Manhattan Airport
“Public dollars helped create Central Park in the 1850s. And public responsibility dictates that we transform this underutilized asset into something we so desperately need today. Manhattan Airport will prove New York City no longer allows it’s vestigial prewar cityscape to languish in irrelevance but instead reinvents these spaces with a daring and inspired bravado truly befitting one of the world’s great cities. The moment is now.”
One day…
Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary wants passengers to stand on the budget airline’s flights, in a bid to pack in more people and boost profits. Passengers would pay less to huddle next to what have been described as “bar stools,” with seat belts around their waists. O’Leary has already held talks with US plane manufacturer Boeing about designing a jet with standing room. He is now hoping to get the go-ahead from the Irish Aviation Authority before ordering a new fleet. A Ryanair spokesman said: “If they approve it, we’ll be doing it.” O’Leary got the idea from Chinese airline Spring, which put forward similar plans — estimating they could pack in up to 50 percent more passengers and slash costs by 20 percent.
It’s been a while since the news about US Airways flight 1549 died down, and rightfully so. There’s only so much media coverage that an event can get before it gets annoying. (We went too far when we created a video game.)Tonight I watched a really interesting interview on 60 Minutes with the flight crew. Chelsea Sullenberger (Sully), is such a cool guy. He was so humble and level headed and his explanation of his thought process leading up to the “controlled crash” into the Hudson was almost inspiring.
Being very interested in aviation, it’s nice to hear stories like this which say so much about the pilots, the aviation industry and much more.
I was just looking at whitehouse.gov and I love that “Obama look” associated with all the new government websites. It’s really clean and modern and yet still has that traditional feel to it.
How cool would it be if they re-painted Air Force One to have the same look?
