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Time: PanAm 1937 Pacific Air Travel

By ⋅ 3-December-2008 at 20:53 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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It was quite a trip to cross the Pacific in the 1930s particularly by plane. When PanAm in 1936 started the first air service from the west coast to China it took 60h flight time and roughly 5 1/2 days travel time.

Have a look at the 1937 PanAm brochure for details of the trip that was scanned in by Telstar Logistics.

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Business: Japan Airline’s CEO tells lesson to other CEO

By ⋅ 3-December-2008 at 7:45 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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The head of one of the top 10 airlines in the world shows no empathy for the overinflated pay and gigantic boni that other CEOs rake in every year.

Yesterday the CEO of Ford also announced that he will only demand a symbolic pay of one dollar within the rescue package requesting billions from the government. But otherwise in banks – with some exceptions – it still seems business as usual and millions of dollars in CEO salary alone remains the standard…

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Video: Seat 29E

By ⋅ 29-November-2008 at 4:15 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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An animated complaint letter to Continental Airlines about a seat located next to the bathroom.

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Science: A Fish-Like Airship

By ⋅ 19-October-2008 at 12:14 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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A research team around Silvain Michel at the Swiss EMPA has created a blimp that moves and steers around like a fish. The airship uses artificial muscles based on electro-active polymers for its propulsion similar to the way fish swim through water.

Here’s a video of the blimp from a competition at the airship convention last week in Germany.

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A380: High Resolution Cockpit panoramas

By ⋅ 29-January-2008 at 17:07 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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In an earlier post last year we pointed you to the great “high resolution interior panoramas” of the A380 by French photographer Gilles Vidal.

Now he has added equally great panoramas allowing you to virtually visit the cockpit of the new A380.

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A380: High Resolution Interior Panoramas

By ⋅ 31-October-2007 at 17:23 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

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Check out these outstanding high resolution panoramas of the actual interior for the new A380. The images have been created by French photographer Gilles Vidal who has also other great panos on his “web site”

First class is covered in two different versions (bed / seat) and to us – business class looks as if it has as much space as Singapore Airlines is currently offering their first class passengers on the Boeing 747 and B777-300ER with the latest upgrade

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