Flying

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  • Would-be pilots grounded by wives!

    The private aviation industry is foundering, and it's all women's fault.
    By Carol Lloyd April 26, 2007

  • Ask the pilot

    No ticket? No problem. Hitching a ride in West Africa, the world's most "dangerous" place to fly.
    By Patrick Smith March 30, 2007

  • Ask the pilot

    Anatomy of a delay: It's payback time as the pilot endures a 24-hour snowstorm saga.
    By Patrick Smith March 23, 2007

  • Ask the pilot

    Remember the sense of awe you used to feel on an airplane ride? Where did it go? Plus: The lowdown on that "filthy" and "germ-laden" cabin air.
    By Patrick Smith March 9, 2007

  • Ask the pilot

    Note to self: Never, ever underestimate the public's hatred for the airlines!
    By Patrick Smith March 2, 2007

  • Ask the pilot

    How safe are those old Russian jets Cubana flies? Why don't people clap on landing anymore? Plus: Stowaways, oxygen deprivation and more!
    By Patrick Smith February 16, 2007

  • Back in the saddle

    These days, because I am an airline pilot, people want to know if I'm scared. Of course I'm scared. I would be nervous flying with a pilot who wasn't.
    By P. Smith April 11, 2002

  • Common cattle

    Every now and then, flight attendants must fly with the unwashed masses. It sucks.
    By Elliott Neal Hester December 14, 2000

  • JFK Jr.'s fatal mistakes

    The final report on Kennedy's crash reveals a series of decisions that led him on a spiral crash course one year ago.
    By Phaedra Hise July 15, 2000

  • Flying the stinky skies

    Can a passenger be thrown off a plane for offensive body odor?
    By Elliott Neal Hester April 18, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Readers welcome Lynda Barry. Plus: Defending ourselves against air rage; are Elian's relatives unfit guardians?
    April 12, 2000

  • Kate Millett finds a new house

    After five years in the wilderness, "Sexual Politics" returns to print.
    By Craig Offman February 11, 2000

  • Drunken airline pilot detained before flying plane

    Amsterdam authorities find captain's blood-alcohol level four times the legal driving limit.
    By J.A. Getzlaff January 26, 2000

  • Letters from the skies

    Pilots share their stories of vertigo, and tell us what we can learn from JFK Jr.'s tragic judgment.
    July 23, 1999

  • Kate Millett, the ambivalent feminist

    The author of the 1970 bestseller "Sexual Politics" may have been the women's movement's most unlikely heroine, or maybe not.
    By Leslie Crawford June 5, 1999

  • Fly girl

    Mid-air diaper changes and occasional airsickness aside, flying with my toddler at the controls brings back the thrill I felt when my dad taught me to fly.
    By Phaedra Hise April 27, 1998

  • Tale of a flight from hell

    Dawn MacKeen's tale of a New York-Los Angeles flight where just about anything that could go wrong did.
    By Dawn MacKeen January 16, 1998
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