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Is it ever appropriate to praise the Lord over an airplane's P.A. system?
By Patrick Smith Feb 20, 2004
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Everything you ever wanted to know about really, really long plane rides, including the do's and don'ts of deep vein thrombosis.
By Patrick Smith Feb 13, 2004
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Do all the international airflight cancellations make us any safer? And when will the White House learn how to spell?
By Patrick Smith Feb 6, 2004
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Why is commercial piloting the third most dangerous profession? Plus, visions of icebergs in the North Atlantic and the aurora borealis in full bloom.
By Patrick Smith Jan 30, 2004
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The view from the window seat: Readers share their own flight stories, and the pilot explains why the aisle is anathema.
By Patrick Smith Jan 23, 2004
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Why did Tom Ridge ask Qantas to stop letting passengers gather in the aisles? And what airline shone above all the rest in 2003?
By Patrick Smith Jan 16, 2004
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Orville and Wilbur Wright and a selection of the greatest moments in commercial aviation. Plus, the true significance of Dec. 17.
By Patrick Smith Dec 19, 2003
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The mystery of Air Force One en route to Baghdad -- could it have happened as the White House claimed?
By Patrick Smith Dec 12, 2003
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How JetBlue will save Eero Saarinen's wonderful JFK legacy. And just how does a jet engine work?
By Patrick Smith Dec 5, 2003
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Before a holiday on which more people fly than any other, the pilot remembers why he loves commercial airlines and solicits readers for Thanskgiving aviation memories.
By Patrick Smith Nov 26, 2003
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The pilot loses his patience with ignorant reporters who blame airline bankruptcies on useless, overpaid captains.
By Patrick Smith Nov 21, 2003
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Remembrance of air flights past: The pilot's most memorable moments that don't involve explosive floods of blue toilet fluid.
By Patrick Smith Nov 14, 2003
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Where have all the Swiss Army Knives gone? The pilot pursues the mystery of the confiscated "sharps."
By Patrick Smith Nov 7, 2003
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Was Nathaniel Heatwole's box-cutter stunt a brilliant hack demonstrating major flaws in airline security, or a foolhardy act proving nothing?
By Patrick Smith Oct 31, 2003
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There's no crying in the cockpit! The life of a baseball player and a pilot are closer than you think.
By Patrick Smith Oct 24, 2003
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Does lavatory refuse ever fall from the sky? And there can't really be an airline called Aerobanana, can there?
By Patrick Smith Oct 17, 2003
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What happened to the "u" in Qantas? Who came up with the immortal "British West Indian Airways West Indies Airways"? And other strange tales of airline names.
By Patrick Smith Oct 3, 2003
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Are there nations without airlines? What happened to Nigeria Airways? How safe is Syrianair? The pilot knows all.
By Patrick Smith Sep 26, 2003
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The pilot confesses his many sins and explains the strange aviation mystery of Gardner, Mass.
By Patrick Smith Sep 19, 2003
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Remembering the Corridor: Mohammed Atta and I both made the world's greatest flight, through the heart of New York City. But I turned upriver.
By Patrick Smith Sep 11, 2003
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Why is the CNN News I watch overseas so much better than the watery slobber they show in America?
By Patrick Smith Sep 5, 2003
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The pilot journeys to the East, an exotic land of spick-and-span metropolises, superb airlines and gibbons that shriek exactly like car alarms.
By Patrick Smith Aug 29, 2003
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Why not build airports on hilltops, so planes can save fuel by taking off or landing at an incline? The pilot gives the idea all the consideration it deserves.
By Patrick Smith Aug 22, 2003
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2002: A year to forget. The pilot surveys the wreckage of one of the worst years ever for the airline industry.
By Patrick Smith Aug 15, 2003
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The federal government is warning us about possible new attacks on airliners. Is it safe to fly? The pilot also shares his own opinion on the question of flight simulators and terrorism.
By Patrick Smith Aug 1, 2003
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