Good morning I’m writing to you from Scotland this morning, with our lovely Scotland’s Highland Highlights tour getting underway, with people joining today, tomorrow, and Sunday, variously here in Glasgow, or in Fort William or …
Good morning Many thanks to the kind people who responded to the start of this year’s annual fundraising drive. There’s something a bit off with the supporter program’s reporting at present, and I’m sure it …
Good morning Happy 100th anniversary this week for the first scheduled international passenger flight – between London and Paris, on 25 August 1919. It took 2 1/2 hours and was a full flight – one …
Good morning It is now barely a week until Labor Day and the traditional end of another summer. The airlines are gleefully banking rich profits due to travel this year being up 4% on last …
Good morning I’ve had a very busy week this week, and thought I’d – excuse me – quickly rush off a short piece as a feature article for this week. But the “quick short piece” …
Good morning I went on a mini-road trip this week, covering over 800 miles in two days, with 650 of those miles featuring my teenage daughter and her friend in the back of the car. …
Good morning Usually, if at all, in this area we get a power cut or two as a result of a “wind storm” in fall. Sometimes that can result in a loss of power for …
Good morning My article last week about Boeing’s Bad Decision when it decided to update its 737 one more time in 2011 drew a lot of comment, and is now the most viewed page on …
Good morning The build up to the Apollo 11 celebrations is reaching a crescendo. As I type this, a website that is recreating the journey in real time tells me that at this moment, 50 …
Good morning Our summer in Seattle is proving rather disappointing currently, to the point of instead of running the a/c, I’ve even had the heaters on intermittently. I hope your summer is better than mine, …
Good morning With 4 July staring us in the face, I can’t help noticing a change in things. Somehow, we’ve gone from signs joyously advertising fireworks for sale in the run up to 4 July …
Good morning Happy 100th anniversary this week to trans-Atlantic air travel. Most people don’t even know it was John Alcock and Arthur Brown, two British fliers, who completed the first trans-Atlantic flight, traveling east from …