When travelling to Johannesburg, South Africa from Sydney, Australia you fly over Antarctica. Believe it or not this is the shortest distance between the two cities on two different continents. The flight path is what is called a “Great Circle” track. This means it is the shortest distance between the points and along the way […]
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Earthquake In The Air
Posted in Flying on Jun 21st, 2006
Back in 2002 I was travelling between Sydney and San Francisco on a United 747-400 when it hit clear air turbulence. The resulting damage was quite severe with many people hurt with broken bones; in fact some people were knocked unconscious. Read the newspaper article here. United Airlines gave me this letter as an apology…
Abandoned Cars at Sydney Airport
Posted in Flying on May 27th, 2006
Recently I took my kids on a tour of Sydney airport run by a company called Airside Tarmac Tours (http://www.airsidetarmactours.com/) It was all very interesting stuff driving around in a bus inside the airport perimeter fence and seeing how Australia’s busiest airport works. One thing that really amazed me was this car lot we drove […]