IN-FLIGHT COMICS OR FLIGHT IN COMICS?
Cinema, music, painting and literature. Flight has always been a topic of interest across all art forms due to the appeal of going beyond the physical limits of humankind, the possibility of exploring unknown worlds and the sheer complexity of machines that challenge gravity,...
PAPER AEROPLANES
Do you remember folding sheets of paper with the utmost precision during school breaks to make little paper aeroplanes? And how satisfied you were as you saw them fly further and further away?
These paper planes are called kami hikoki in Japanese. Why in Japanese?...
SAYING “I DO” ON CLOUD NINE!
Their wedding day is a day that changes people forever. It is one of the days most anticipated by lovers, one of the most beautiful memories in a person’s life. Each wedding is unique and special, but for some it’s important to give a...
A TRIP TO THE MUSEUM
If you’re truly passionate about aviation, then you must have been to a museum dedicated to aeroplanes at least once in your life, haven’t you?
There are hundreds of them around the world. Aviation, aerospace, war, science and technology museums satisfy the curiosity of flying...
HOW TO PAINT AN AEROPLANE AND WHY ALL AEROPLANES ARE WHITE
Painting an aeroplane is not exactly the same as painting a car.
When an airline chooses a livery, they have to take into consideration several factors, not just aesthetic ones.
Let’s start with the most obvious thing: almost all aeroplanes are white. The financial factor is...
HOW WILL THE FUTURE TRAVELLER BE?
Sci-fi films and books talked about a 2030 where we will travel on flying cars, wearing silver overalls and communicating through microchips under our skin.
2030 is coming and none of us has pointed ears so far.
But it is true that the way we travel...
APHORISMS AND QUOTES ON AEROPLANES
Are you one of those people who underline nice sentences in books with a pencil? Do you keep hold of that little piece of paper you once found in a fortune cookie? Fall in love with a song for its lyrics? And do you...
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PASSPORT
The passport is perhaps the document most loved by globe-trotters. For some of them it’s almost a fetish. Each stamp a memento, each page a story to tell.
But what’s the story behind this booklet full of inky souvenirs? How did people used to travel...
AIRPLANE! (1980)
If we were to establish a ranking of the funniest films of all time, Airplane! would definitely get a place of honour.
As a matter of fact, in 2000 the American Film Institute placed it number ten in the rank of AFI's 100 Years... 100...
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU’RE BORN ON AN AEROPLANE?
Have you ever met anyone who was born on 29th February? Believe it or not, across the world there are about 5 million leapers, as people born on the extra day that comes every four years during a leap year are known.
Meeting someone born...