Weekly Roundup, Friday 2 August 2019
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 …
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 26 July 2019
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 …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 19 July 2019
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 …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 12 July 2019
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, …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 28 June 2019
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 …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 21 June 2019
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 …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 14 June 2019
Good morning Our redesign continues today with some more tweaking in the newsletter and now rolled out to all newsletter versions – the Express, the Daily, and the Weekly versions. Note that some people are …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 7 June 2019
Good morning If you are receiving this in the form of the once weekly newsletter, you can hopefully see that our redesigning continues apace (the daily and instant versions have yet to be updated). This …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 31 May 2019
Good morning Exciting news today, well, at least, exciting by my own rather narrow and self-centered definition of the word. I’m starting to roll out a new design for the blog website and associated articles, …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 17 May 2019
Good morning As you can see in the image immediately above, I’ve made some exciting changes to our French tour this September. Several readers had suggested that instead of an entire week in one place, …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 10 May 2019
Good morning Many thanks to everyone who sent their opinions in on whether they’d be comfortable flying the Boeing 737 MAX once it returns to service. As promised, your answers have been collated, and I’ve …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 26 April 2019
Good morning I’m doing things a little differently today. I’m sending out the newsletter as usual, and then I’ll send out a separate article later on Friday morning to make it more noticeable for all. …