Category Archives: Aviation

Thanks a lot, James May

It turns out that the Eyjafjallajokull eruption that stranded me in the United Kingdom earlier this year was all James May’s fault. Seriously. If you watched the first episode of Series 15 (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, … Continue reading

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It also says you can’t put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling

So I was reading through the Canadian Aviation Regulations this afternoon looking for something specifically prohibiting me from dropping things from airplanes. (It turns out there isn’t any such regulation, as long as you do it safely.) And then, I … Continue reading

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Homemade pornography!

(Man, I wonder what the search engines are going to do with these airplane porn posts…) It’s the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Navy — whatever we want to call it this year — and, to mark … Continue reading

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More filthy pornography!

The Australian Department of Defence released this awesome series of photographs of one of their brand-new F/A-18Fs doing some low-level flying. They are staggeringly cool pictures. Also, a very interesting view of a 787-8. I say it too much, but … Continue reading

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Quick Hits

Item 1: We are so living in the future now, says William Gibson: Say it’s midway through the final year of the first decade of the 21st Century. Say that, last week, two things happened: scientists in China announced successful … Continue reading

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Filthy pornography!

This is just absolutely hard core, depraved, and totally disguisting porn. We’re talking ought-to-be-illegal degrees of filth here. Don’t click that link unless you’re willing to deal with what’s on the other side.

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Encoding humor

I read this article about RCMP members flying commercially to serve as air marshals shortly after it was published last month, but somehow managed to miss what the actual URL was. And then I laughed, very hard. I think you … Continue reading

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Go fever

We left to see The Lion King last night in a cloud of despondancy. The new ash plume was heading southeast, looking to blanket the entire United Kingdom for another five or six days. Little improvement was expected. I blamed … Continue reading

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Day 6

Still here. Last night, we thought we had a glimmer of good news, in that a bunch of flights were supposed to operate from London airports later today. That doesn’t look like it’s going to happen, and Iceland continues to … Continue reading

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Greetings from Vilecano land!

Week 5 of my epic circle-half-the-globe-twice-in-a-month adventure started out swimmingly. We left Swansea on Wednesday night, spent the night near Heathrow, planning to wake up early and catch our flight to Amsterdam the next morning. Rode the Hotel Hoppa to … Continue reading

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