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Good morning Happy birthday this week to the 777. It is twenty years ago that the plane was first ceremonially rolled out by Boeing, although the first commercial flight didn’t occur until June 1995 (with …
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Good morning And a very happy Easter to you, wherever in the world you may be celebrating it. One of the few disadvantages of living in the US is that Easter is not celebrated here …
There’s nothing worse than an unexplained or inexplicable misfortune, and particularly with the modern-day demand for instant news and certain facts, even when there’s nothing to say and little understood, low quality ‘information’ rushes in …
The in-room placards are getting more and more offensively aggressive at demanding we ‘save water’ while staying at a hotel. Earlier this week, I was at a property that not only had the well-worn homilies …
Good morning Happy birthday to the internal combustion engine. This is one of those inventions that are hard to pin down to a specific point in time, due to being a series of evolving and …
One of the most effective lobbying groups in the country are our airlines. They can boast a brilliant record for delaying or avoiding any legislation they feel would disadvantage themselves, while effectively promoting legislative and …
I wrote, a couple of weeks ago, about what I (and most other reviewers) feel to be the best compact camera available in the market today, the Sony DSC-RX100 II. I continue to be delighted …
Good morning I returned back from New Zealand earlier this week, and enjoyed two more splendid flights on Hawaiian Airlines. That makes four excellent flights in a row with HA, all pushing back on time …
The MH 370 777-200 has now been missing for four weeks. In a few more days, the batteries that drive the ‘pingers’ on the black boxes will expire, and they will go silent (they are …