You’re right, that kind of flyover would never happen nowadays.

Ziggy?

Ermahgerd, people are having fun. I HAVE TO STOP THEM FROM HAVING FUN BECAUSE STUFF.

"Ramp agents" are not always unionized. Neither airport I worked at (ABI, HOU) had union employees.

If you watch QI, you know that any episode with Sue Perkins is going to be hilarious.

In 1998, I was 14 year old, a freshman in high school and a member of the coolest organization on campus. My friends, I was in the marching band. Every year, the band would take a trip of one sort or another. Our trip that year was to Ireland. We had been selected to march in the Saint Patricks Day parades in Limerick…

As someone who lives in Texas I want to go on a rant about how people misrepresent what Texas is really like.

Ha... Gotta love Hilton. That guy is the poor mans Mattress Mack.

This guy is out there doing some awesome shit.

Radar.

But is it black and blue, or white and gold??!?!?

Turtles all the way down.

Smaller aircraft equipped with turboprops actually have an advantage over similarly sized jet aircraft during short-field landings and takeoffs. The props can produce almost instantaneous thrust on take off and reverse pitch on landings to help with braking.

Circa 2009

MUCH HAUL

This article shows a glimpse of what a day at work can be like for someone who works inside a terminal at a major US airport.

The middle-aged women were throwing bottles of white wine on the ground, too. The only difference is that the ladies' bottles had sugar on the rim...

How would you add sugar? That's not too hard, but it's fairly icky. If they have any sugar, or anything sugar-y, all you'd have to do is dissolve the sugar in your mouth. When you get your bagged espresso, rather than sucking, you spit. Agitate the bag while keeping your mouth on the straw to avoid spraying your…

Looks like he was dropping flares.