Skylon is very cool.

Fun facts:

A fantastic movie indeed.

Do read the Pippi books. Even in translation most anything by Astrid Lindgren is a treasure. She was an amazing author, woman, and all-around human being. So insightful and clever but at the same time playful and whimsical. That one person pretty much all Swedes would agree was the embodiment of everything good in the…

Going through a security check for transfers is very common nowadays. Efficient transfer checks are... less common.

Soooo. The world outside of North American doesn’t exist? ;)

I’ve heard that as well. But apparently the deer never did anything of the sort... :)

For the passengers, yes they are. For the holding tank, not as much. :)

Having been to Newark rather too many times, I totally get it. :)

The standard one is fine. The A350 already routinely flies 16 hour sectors.

Singapore and NYC are two of the perhaps top 5 financial centers in the world. Lots of traffic.

From my above post:

Don’t forget the incessant drone of the radial engines...

Helpful taxi drivers in HK? What sorcery is this? ;)

We carry a body bag on all our aircraft. It’s a regulatory requirement.

Airliners are pretty efficient. :)

Heh... Thankfully lavatory air is not recycled like the rest of the cabin air. On a modern plane it’s quite hard to get a whiff unless someone has gone full Jackson Pollock in the lav.

I hear you...

I’ve operated all of one trip with 16-hour block time each way. Even with four crew, the crew bunk, the comfy seats at the pointy end, and the northern lights on the way back, I was cooked at the end. Bored to tears. For about 6 hours over the pole there isn’t even the occasional radio call to stave off…