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ALL CONTENTS ON THIS SITE WERE CONCEIVED AND WRITTEN BY PATRICK SMITH Patrick Smithis an airline pilot, air travel blogger and author. His Ask the Pilot column, from which portions of this website have been adapted, ran in the online magazine Salon.com from 2002 until 2012.
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Dlaczego nie Polska?
August 26, 2026 Of late, U.S. airlines have embarked on a flurry of international expansion. United, in particular, has been throwing darts at the map, moving into markets (Split, Kaohsiung, Ulaanbataar) many Americans have never heard of. Yet one destina
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Round or Flat?
August 6, 2026 I'm working a trip to Paris. I'm early for my sign-in, so I stake out a quiet spot at the bottom of the stairs, down at the connector to terminal C. I'm scrolling on my phone, setting up some things on my iPad. A man approaches from the esc
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Travel Photos: The Textures Series
THERE'S A PICTURE I always take. There's a theme, a theme, that I'm drawn to. Usually it's a wall or a door or other flat surface, the weatherbeaten elements of which are similar: sun-cracked paint, peeling artwork, crumbling plaster or fissured stucco. I
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Zen Arcade at 42
HüSKER Dü WERE A TRIO from Minneapolis. Guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart sang and wrote the songs. Greg Norton played bass guitar and chipped in on vocals. A punk band, you would have to call them, as throughout the early and mid-1980s they tour
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Project Sunrise
June 19, 2026 This week, Qantas Airways announced it will begin its long-awaited London-Sydney nonstops late next year. With an expected time aloft of around 22 hours, this will be, by a wide margin, the longest flight in the world - indeed, the longest s
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