LMAO. I used to be an FA on ERJ145's and J41's. All those nervous pax used to trip me out. The worse were space-A pax riding on 130's and 141's. Usually it was the dependant wives bitching. That's why in the Air Force I preferred cargo processing, ramp, operations, or even fleet services to working pax services in my career field. Cargo don't bitch. I did enjoy being an FA though and some of the crazy pax as they were my bread and butter for some years. It helped having an air transportation background and a love of flying anything with wings.

(Written on 2020年09月24日)(Permalink)

Probably waiting on authorization under our government to do something about it. They probably saw the need but couldn't act out of recourse over legal issues. Gone are the days of making a command decision and suffer the consequences later.

(Written on 2020年08月31日)(Permalink)

It seems someone was doing their job and caught a flaw before all hell broke loose. I'm no A&P guy but I remember C5's and 141's being grounded for wing spar cracks and Lockheed fixed the problems. It's not a quick and easy fix but at least it was caught.

(Written on 2020年08月31日)(Permalink)

Specifically she doesn't much care for police drug units. According to the Urban Dictionary F*** 12 are the drug squad. I'm guessing sh probably smoked a little preflight weed making her think this was a good idea. LMAO.

(Written on 2020年08月06日)(Permalink)

It came up on my Google news feed yesterday. Decent article. It made me want to research more on the subject.

(Written on 2020年07月29日)(Permalink)

The problem with that is most people don't read.

(Written on 2020年07月27日)(Permalink)

She was born in Guyana and still has some family there. A lot of them have emigrated years ago as did she and are living mostly in New York, Atlanta, and Florida. Some of them bounce back and forth between the States and Guyana, that's why I made that comment. Due to the COVID19 many of her remaining family were unable to travel from Guyana to the States for her funeral. Eventually after we're cleared for regular flying from here to there I will finally get to visit Guyana to spread her ashes. I've always wanted to visit, just a messed up reason to go there.

(Written on 2020年07月17日)(Permalink)

I wonder if any of my late wife's family were on that flight.

(Written on 2020年07月17日)(Permalink)

I used to travel a lot by train on the weekends while in Europe. I'd either leave Friday afternoon and leave my car at work and walk to the nearest Bahnhof, or leave my car at home and take a taxi to the Kaiserslautern Bahnhof. I'd usually sit in the bar car. I'd meet all sorts of interesting people. It was fun back then. A bonus, I wouldn't have to find a place to park. My usual trips were from Ktown to Brussels as my Dad was frequently TDY to NATO from FT Lee, VA or to Vilseck, Germany where my father-in-law was stationed. It was about the same as driving, just less nerve wracking.

(Written on 2020年07月13日)(Permalink)

How do the balloons stay in place?

(Written on 2020年07月09日)(Permalink)