FLYING / AVIATION
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Eastport Road Map
Global Meets Local in a Very Small Town
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Eastport on Marketplace
Hearing voices you won't forget, from a small group of inventive and determined people.
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Eastport, Maine, Population 1,300
On a per capita basis, one of the grittiest and most inventive places in America.
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Notes Cheering and Otherwise, From an American Frontier
Where the country first sees the sunlight each day.
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Now, for More Good News About America: Avidyne to the Rescue!
When you have the opportunity to give a deserved compliment, don't let it pass.
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EATNN TTUNA SNWCH – hold (at) MAYYO: More on the Secret Language
"The approach fixes, in order, are TRAMP, FLOZY, SILKY, and JAKOR. I'm sensing a pattern here but would love to know the back story."
Reports From America
ITAWT ITAWA PUDYE TTATT:
The Secret Language of the Skies
Economic & Business Development
If You Thought a Profitable Newspaper Was Surprising, How About
More strange tales from the North Country.
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‘Baltimore Altimeter, 30.46’
Snapshots From a Clear Day in the Northeast
Arts
‘Say Souls On Board,’ and Other Secrets of the Skies
Read the story in The Atlantic here. When I fly on commercial airlines, I always try to listen to the air traffic controllers (ATC) on my headset. On United Airlines, that would be channel 9. After 9/11, channel 9 went quiet for many, many months. Then it occasionally, irregularly returned. When I would ask the […]
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Road Report: Sarah Lee Guthrie
Why someone had to invent the word "serendipity."
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Welcome Marketplace Listeners, to American Futures
Kicking off a new collaborative project
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Today’s Frightening / Inspiring Aerial Videos
How fire-fighting looks from the tanker-pilots' point of view.
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If We’re Talking American Orientalism …
Read the story in The Atlantic here. Etching of the ominous country under discussion, above, by Janet Edwards of Redlands. … as I was doing previously here and here, I thought it would be worth going back to re-read Joan Didion’s 1966 Saturday Evening Post article that so offended my home town back when I was in high school and before Joan […]
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A Theory of Mountain Flying
The safety virtues of multi-modal transportation.
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Readers on ‘American Orientalism’
Good thing I didn't mention snowmobiles.