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A 1967 campaign by George Lois, one of the real mad men. (via)

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:55:00 +0000

A 1967 campaign by George Lois, one of the real mad men. (via)

Four more photographs from Mark Power’s series on the Airbus...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:28:00 +0100

Factory

Factory

Wing

Snow

Four more photographs from Mark Power’s series on the Airbus A-380.

thingsmagazine: From Mark Power’s series on the Airbus...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:09:06 +0100

thingsmagazine:

From Mark Power’s series on the Airbus A-380

That’s nice, that.

"Over the decades, airliners have been built with increasingly automated flight-control functions...."

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:47:06 +0000

“Over the decades, airliners have been built with increasingly automated flight-control functions. These have the potential to remove a great deal of uncertainty and danger from aviation. But they also remove important information from the attention of the flight crew. While the airplane’s avionics track crucial parameters such as location, speed, and heading, the human beings can pay attention to something else. But when trouble suddenly springs up and the computer decides that it can no longer cope—on a dark night, perhaps, in turbulence, far from land—the humans might find themselves with a very incomplete notion of what’s going on.”

- Jeff Wise: What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 at Popular Mechanics.

The Airline Bag Lounge (via, via)

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:30:00 +0000

The Airline Bag Lounge (via, via)

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have..."

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:09:44 +0100

“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.”

- Captain Eric Moody on British Airways Flight 9, the best example of why grounding flights when there’s volcanic ash about is a good idea. (via iamdanw)

John F. Kennedy Int’l Airport, a set at Flickr. via.

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:07:48 +0100

John F. Kennedy Int’l Airport, a set at Flickr. via.

Concorde at 40

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:52:00 +0100

A couple of months ago, I posted a note on the 40th anniversary of the 747, and it seemed appropriate to do the same for Concorde.

However, the 9th of April, 1969, wasn’t Concorde’s first flight. That was on the 2nd of March, when the Andre Turcat flew the French prototype for 27 minutes. (Here’s the Times archive’s report of that day.)

Nonetheless, having missed that, I thought I’d still post on the anniversary of Brian Trubshaw’s first flight of the British prototype, from Filton in Bristol. Of course, Concorde still has an amazing power of this strange technological nostalgia over the British public (as shown by the deservedly negative reaction to the news that the last of the British Airways Concordes may be sold to Dubai), and I’m far from immune. (For example, Fast Company posted a piece on why Concorde still matters. Don’t miss the nosecone schematic.)

Better news on the 40th anniversary was that a simulator has been rebuilt at Brooklands Musuem, home to G-BBDG, the evaluation testing airframe. One to visit.

In pictures: 40th anniversary of the jumbo jet Oh my. So many...

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0000

In pictures: 40th anniversary of the jumbo jet

Oh my. So many lovely photos, like this one against the moon and another contrasting the 747 and a Mumbai slum.

Jonathan Glancey’s Classics of everyday design piece on the 747 is worth reading too, especially as it does what the BBC’s 40th anniversary story failed to: contrast the Jumbo with Concorde, which was to have its first flight within a month of the Boeing debut.