P. Smith

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  • Ask the pilot

    The mile-high snooze: Should pilots be allowed to nap? Also, airline cuisine and class warfare.
    By Patrick Smith July 25, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    How do jumbo jets fit into shrimp-size airports? And just what is the state of the pilot's love life?
    By Patrick Smith July 18, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    The strange tale of World Airways' decapitated DC-10. Also: What airline has the best barf bags?
    By Patrick Smith July 11, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    What would happen if you handed all the legends of the airline industry a cocktail and stuffed them into one hotel room? Also: Are regional jets unsafe?
    By Patrick Smith June 27, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    The raging battle over Southwest Airlines, a brief history of no-frills airlines, and bad Hooters Air jokes.
    By Patrick Smith June 20, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    The ugly skies: Readers' letters have made me even more depressed about the state of American flying. Plus: A Hooters Air sighting!
    By Patrick Smith June 13, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    Why are American airlines famous for the worst passenger service in the world?
    By Patrick Smith June 6, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    We have a winner! The pilot reveals the answers to his reader quiz. Who knew Satchel Paige flew his own airplane?
    By Patrick Smith May 30, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    The pilot begs: Don't let the dastardly French name the next-generation Boeing passenger jet!
    By Patrick Smith May 23, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    What's the worst-named airline of all time: Russia's Kras Air or Taiwan's U-Land Airlines? Plus: The pilot tests his fans with his second reader quiz.
    By Patrick Smith May 16, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    What in heaven's name was Japan Airlines thinking when it ditched the crane? The pilot offers some lessons in airliner art appreciation.
    By Patrick Smith May 9, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    Stripping down in the cockpit. Plus, lessons on how to stall out at the speed of sound.
    By Patrick Smith May 2, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    Are jet contrails really CIA poison? And how do gay flight attendants get along with redneck pilots?
    By Patrick Smith April 25, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    The pilot protests the destruction of a defenseless Iraqi airliner. Plus: Geeky details about flaps, ailerons, spoilers and slats. But not flaperons.
    By Patrick Smith April 18, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    The pilot goes south, to the anti-paradise of Santo Domingo and the tropic embrace of Guatemala City.
    By Patrick Smith April 11, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    Will the war in Iraq spell doom for U.S. airlines and their workers?
    By Patrick Smith April 3, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    From Addis Ababa by way of Bahrain: The pilot contemplates African dignity, and understands why he wants to fly.
    By Patrick Smith March 28, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    The airport city of Miami International -- a metropolis for airline geeks to savor.
    By Patrick Smith March 21, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    Do big airplanes get the best pilots? And do we really want to know what happens when seven pilots room together?
    By Patrick Smith March 14, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    Why stop in Anchorage on the way from Tahiti to Paris? Plus, the mysteries of the Muslim qibla.
    By Patrick Smith March 7, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    Ode to the humpbacked 747 (and a shout out to the svelte Brazilian Embraer). Plus: Why do jetliner wings always have to block the view?
    By Patrick Smith February 28, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    Terminal One: At JFK International Airport, in an enormous swath of asphalt, glass, and aluminum flying machines, the pilot stalks old ghosts.
    By Patrick Smith February 21, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    The tragedy that is Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport; more Hollywood movies about airplanes. Plus: Do pilots eat the same crappy food as passengers?
    By Patrick Smith February 14, 2003

  • Ask the pilot

    Giant nets to stop a brakeless Concorde? Just one of Hollywood's ham-handed attempts to fly. Plus, why icing on a plane is a slippery business.
    By Patrick Smith February 7, 2003

  • Astronauts and pilots

    The shuttle -- part spacecraft, part plane -- transformed flight forever. Even tragedy can't change that.
    By Patrick Smith February 1, 2003
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