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A few more random return-to-the-homeland notes

I will never do this systematically, so I'll keep jotting them down at random. As I repatriate, I notice: - Not as many very fat large Americans as I was expecting. Am I looking in the wrong places? So propagandized into thinking that all of my countrymen...

Published 24 Sep 2009 7:51 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, China, Life

TSA / Amelia followups

Following this item yesterday: 1) Demonstrating the mathematical theorem that TSA+Google Ads = unintended comedy, reader Andrew Hall shows what happened when he clicked on the trailer for the Hilary Swank / Amelia Earhart film: In case you can't read...

Published 26 Aug 2009 6:08 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Terrorism/Security, China

Sigh, out of range again

I am no longer based in China, but am not yet actually based anyplace else. So this might be the last dispatch for the next week, and it's on the fly from yet another airport wi-fi site. Sketchy for-the-record remarks: 1) After 60+ hours in America...

Published 18 Jun 2009 18:02 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, China, Life, The Press

Winding up

I'm aware of a ton of loose threads to be gathered up (about Air France updates, Obama's speaking style, urban design in China, design in software, boiled frogs, you name it). Soon. But three years in China have now come down to three days; the...

Published 11 Jun 2009 8:52 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, China

Now I truly feel like Mr. Beijing

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...

Published 22 May 2009 10:42 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, China

Tech and cultural followups on that Air China flight

Two days ago I mentioned the strange results when an Air China flight headed for Beijing was instead diverted to Tianjin. To anyone who receives these posts by email, the results must have seemed even stranger than they were. Because of a glitch in our...

Published 26 Apr 2009 0:35 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, China, Life

Back to Beijing #2 (better news, Air China dept)

Twenty-plus years ago, traveling around China by air was anything but a peace-of-mind experience. The planes were mainly leftover Soviet junkers; the amenities were sparse; the general atmosphere called to mind Indiana Jones. I've done a lot of crisscrossing...

Published 24 Apr 2009 3:56 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, China, Life

Outflanking the cheese beagles

Barring some truly startling new development, this will be the final dispatch about the beagle-enhanced war on cheese that Chinese customs and immigration officials are waging at the spiffy new Terminal Three of Beijing's Capital Airport. For the...

Published 30 Mar 2009 5:19 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, China, Life

Harmonic convergence! Two of my obsessions in one place!

At last, my interests in (a) innovative small-airplane technology, and (b) the evolution of China's economy, come together in one bit of news. According to Aero-News.Net, in this dispatch , the next owner of the assets, technology, designs, etc of...

Published 19 Mar 2009 22:23 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, China

More on China-US climate issues, more on F-22

- About China and the US cooperating on environmental/climate issues: Yesterday I mentioned this detailed and valuable report from the Asia Society and Pew. It turns out that Brookings has just done something similar. Summary here , with links to PDF...

Published 20 Feb 2009 18:52 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Terrorism/Security, China, Technology, Environment

Year end pensees: more on security

OK, we're already 4% of the way into the new year of 2009. But there are still 10 or 11 days left in the current Chinese Year of the Earthen Rat, before we welcome the auspicious Year of the Golden Ox. So if I hurry I can get through my list of topics...

Published 15 Jan 2009 4:28 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Terrorism/Security, China, Year end pensee

Something on my desk that might not be on yours

A Chinese fighter plane! At least, a 1:48 scale model of one, the domestically-produced 歼-10, or J-10 , courtesy of a friend at AVIC, China's giant aerospace company. Click for larger, including a glimpse of the teeny blue-suited model pilot inside...

Published 18 Nov 2008 23:43 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Terrorism/Security, China

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A few more random return-to-the-homeland notes

TSA / Amelia followups

Sigh, out of range again

Winding up

Now I truly feel like Mr. Beijing

Tech and cultural followups on that Air China flight

Back to Beijing #2 (better news, Air China dept)

Outflanking the cheese beagles

Harmonic convergence! Two of my obsessions in one place!

More on China-US climate issues, more on F-22

Year end pensees: more on security

Something on my desk that might not be on yours