It’s Finally Happening: Emirates Airlines Launches Daily Airbus A380...
TweetWell I just saw a banner ad, so consider that confirmation that, as of December 1st, 2014*, Emirates is finally offering daily flights to and from Dubai out of SFO on its shower-stall equipped**...
View ArticleWhoa: Asiana Airlines Flights To and From SFO “Likely” to be Suspended for as...
TweetFrom San Francisco-based military writer Kyle Mizokami comes word of a plan to temporarily suspend Asiana Airlines flights between Incheon International Airport (ICN) and SFO: Asiana Faces...
View ArticleThe End of an Era: 2014 is the Last Time Any Airline Will Boast of Its Boeing...
TweetI was surprised to see this ad: Here’s how things looked back in 1968: And here’s how things looked back in 2008 for Boeing’s jumbo jet competition, the Airbus A380. Where’s our jumbo jet...
View ArticleHow the Giant Airbus A380 is a Fuel-Hungry Dinosaur and How Smaller Mammals...
TweetHere you go, let’s take a look at two recent flights out of SFO. An Airbus A380: And here’s a Boeing 777, which is an older design, but it’s not yet a flying dinosaur: Here’s why. What are the...
View ArticleFrisco Loses “Hometown Airline,”“Thousands of Jobs”– Let’s Look at Excessive...
Tweet1. Here’s the news: Alaska Air Agrees to Buy Virgin America for $2.6 Billion Does this airline deal “make sense?” IDK, we’ll see. But let’s now take the chance to take a look at the hype over...
View ArticleSeen Above Frisco: A Special Emirates A-380 with Wildlife Livery – Living...
TweetSeen heading north, which is how you get to Dubai, more or less. And speaking of special, I think this is one of the higher weight versions, the better to make a 16-hour flight: 1. So this...
View ArticleFreeway vs. Highway – Libel vs. Slander – Shotgun vs. Rifle – Accident vs....
TweetWe’re in Cali, right? So you know what a freeway is. So don’t call a freeway a “highway.” In California, a highway is any old street. For example: “CVC 21201 (d) A bicycle operated during darkness...
View ArticleFlight EK226: Flying from American Airspace to Iranian Airspace in About 12...
TweetJust saying. This big old Airbus A380, which never really worked as an airliner design, regularly flies betwixt San Francisco and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Which is NBD, but the only way this...
View ArticleTwo Engineering Disasters, One Big and One Small – Millennium Tower, Which...
Millennium Tower, on the left here, is the smaller disaster, something on the order of half a billion dollars. It leans. A lot. Who knows how much money we’ll have to pay for its owners’ mistakes over...
View ArticleBig Stubby Airplane Too Big and Too Stubby for SFO and Pretty Much Everywhere...
The loudest A-380 I’ve ever heard over Frisco, perhaps due to recent unusual wind patterns near SFO. Actually, it’s still pretty quiet by today’s standards, both inside and out. That was one of its...
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