epub |eng | 2015-08-30 | Author:Sally Armstrong

The captain wanted to stay as close to the Red Arrows as aviation law would permit. He also wanted to show Concorde off to the crowds below. Not to be ...

epub |eng | | Author:Erika Armstrong

After being away from Lindsey for five days for the first time, I gladly volunteered for nighttime baby duties. It was during those lonely hours that I projected how a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Donald Bain [Bain, Donald]

Rachel’s run-in with a lesbian was more bizarre than mine. Rachel always does things on a big scale. She infiltrated a whole den of them quite innocently. She’d become friendly ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Jeff Wise [Wise, Jeff]

INTERLUDE A SPECULATIVE SCENARIO MARCH 8, 2014. 12.15am. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A line of passengers shuffles down the aisle to their seats, subdued and sleepy. It’s late, and the flight ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Richard Branson [Branson, Richard]

PLANE SAILING When we were getting ready to launch Virgin Atlantic, and with zero experience whatsoever in the airline industry, I realised how important the ability to delegate was going ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-01 | Author:William J. McGee

An Outsourcing Outbreak The latest numbers are hard to uncover, but there’s no question that outsourcing keeps increasing. According to the Aeronautical Repair Station Association, the maintenance repair and overhaul ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Bhargava, Jitender [Bhargava, Jitender]

BLIND EYE It did not need an investigator to bring out the aberrations mentioned above; a glance through the airline’s 2006–07 annual report would have sufficed. Interestingly, the airline’s annual ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Palmer, Bill [Palmer, Bill]

When the flap handle is out of the UP position (i.e., flaps out), positioning the thrust levers to TOGA commands full power and also commands the go-around mode in the ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Laurence Gonzales [Gonzales, Laurence]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN At one or two o’clock on the morning of July 20, when the Grumman Gulfstream touched down at the Sioux City airport and taxied to the ramp, more ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Alain de Botton [Botton, Alain de]

Milan Kundera was being suggested as a guide to Prague, and Raymond Carver depended upon to reveal the hidden character of the small towns between Los Angeles and Santa Fe. ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Patrick Smith

That last one sounds like a chapter from a fantasy novel. Head instead to La Layal, a great little Lebanese place up the street, where, once you get past the ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-20 | Author:Thesky, Betty N. & Janet Spencer & Nanette Weston [Thesky, Betty N.]

A male flight attendant: “We were in the middle of a flight and I was walking down the aisle checking on my passengers when I noticed a very large woman ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Chesley B. Sullenberger

WHEN THERE are maintenance issues or other delays, I believe in telling passengers exactly what is going on. Sometimes a plane has to be taken out of service after passengers ...

mobi |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Federal Aviation Administration FAA

mobi |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Mark Wagner; Guy Norris

Here is a view through the Rockwell Collins HGS head-up display looking south along a simulated runway 13 Right at Boeing Field. Altitude is indicated down the right side, and ...