I learned of it last night on The CBC’s As It Happens: Miles Hilton-Barber, blind since age 30, has flown from Biggen Hill, south of London, to Gosford, outside Sydney, by ultralight in a journey that took almost two months.
Aviation regulations required he take a sighted co-pilot, but in the As It Happens story he [...]

Posted May 1, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Technology. Tags: adventure, blind, blind as a bat, flight, flying blind, inspiring, Miles Hilton-Barber. Be the first one.

Perhaps it’s just because I’m in the air again today, but I’m fascinated by Aaron Koblin’s animation of aircraft activity, illustrating the pulsing, throbbing movements of aircraft over North America. Nah, this is hot. You’ll love it too.
Also worth checking out: Koblin’s other works.
Aaron Koblin, aircraft, animation, aviation, flight, path

Posted December 3, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: Aaron Koblin, air, aircraft, animation, aviation, control, flight, path, traffic. 2 Comments.

Howard Hughes‘ Spruce Goose now rests in McMinnville, at the Evergreen Aviation Museum.
The Goose is as long as a 747 with a wingspan a third again as broad, and for a short few seconds in 1947, it flew.
The docent was incredibly pleased to tell us that the tail almost broke off during those few seconds [...]

Posted February 22, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Travel. Tags: aircraft, aviation, evergreen aviation, Evergreen Aviation Museum, flight, Howard Hughes, McMinnville, McMinnville OR, museum, oregon, Spruce Goose. 3 Comments.

If I didn’t like flying, or at least if I couldn’t tolerate it, I wouldn’t making my third distant trip in as many months. And though I know many others spend a whole lot more time in planes than I do, I still think Vasken has a bit of a point in the following:
I couldnt [...]

Posted February 14, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Travel. Tags: air travel, airlines, flight, flying, flying time, security, time, trasnportation, Travel, vasken hauri, wasted time. One Comment.