May 2009 - Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs
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I know people who've lived here for decades, for their entire lives, and have not had the full immersion in Beijing-ology that I have recently been exposed to: an air journey from Nanyuan Airport! The authoritative Insider's Guide to Beijing is...
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I recognize that it is both heartbreaking and potentially cruel to keep going into details of what exactly led to the commuter-plane crash in February that killed all 49 people aboard the airplane and one person on the ground. (Previously here .) But...
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About the public hearings on the terrible crash in Buffalo three months ago, in which 50 people died: - Authoritative wrapup of the situation here by Andy Pasztor of the Wall Street Journal, who has had well-informed stories on this topic from the beginning...
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I don't talk about it as often as, say, small-plane aviation or, recently, Chinese education , or my doomed quest in Asia for good beer. But for many many years I have been fascinated by the relationship between "pure" acts of thinking ...
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... how about the prospect that the GPS system will be the next part of America's neglected infrastructure to be in trouble, with ripple effects on modern commercial life? It is impossible to overstate the importance of GPS to the worldwide modern...
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Here's the news that will make it all worthwhile! According to Mary Grady of AVweb , the easiest (legal) way for Americans to get to Cuba is, under new rules, to fly their own little planes there. This has been theoretically possible for a long time...