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Lauren Theisen

This picture taken on November 13, 2023 shows a view of interior of the pilot cockpit and flight deck of a Boeing 777-9 jetliner aircraft

Life's Rich Pageant

“Strong Fish Smell In Cabin,” And Other Pilot-To-Ground Texts

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Chris Thompson

Trevor Story does the airplane celebration.

Red Sox Dance To Commemorate The Flight From Hell

Barry Petchesky

A wide-angle view of the total eclipse of the Moon of November 8, 2022, with the red Moon at right amid the stars of the northern winter sky and Milky Way, plus with bright red Mars at top. Above and left of the Moon is the blue Pleiades star cluster, while below it and to the left is the larger Hyades cluster with reddish Aldebaran in Taurus. The stars of Orion are left of centre, including reddish Betelgeuse, while at far left are the two Dog Stars: Procyon, at top, in Canis Minor, and Sirius, at bottom, in Canis Major. So this is a gathering of many red stars, planets and the rare red Moon. I shot the frames for this scene beginning at 3:50 am MST, 10 minutes before mid-totality during this 1h25m-long total eclipse. . (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Life Lessons

Look Up!

Amy Schneider is a software engineer, cat owner, and Jeopardy champion who posts about her experiences on Twitter @Jeopardamy. She used to have a podcast, and odds are she will again some day.

Amy Schneider

380357 05: Orville Wright flying over Dayton, OH in September of 1910. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)

Wings Week

You Motherfuckers Forgot About Dayton

Tom Ley

Hensley Meulens #31 of the Colorado Rockies poses for a photo during the Colorado Rockies Photo Day at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick on Friday, February 24, 2023 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

There Are Several Reasons Not To Let Anyone From The Colorado Rockies Into An Airplane Cockpit

Passengers wait in the TSA screening line

The Machines

The TSA Has Thwarted My Anti-Groping Strategy

Airline passengers wait at a TSA checkpoint

How To Avoid Getting Groped By TSA While Trans

Albert Burneko

In this photograph taken on June 17, 2011 a Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft of Susi Air prepares to take off at Jayapura airport in Papua province. An Indonesian aircraft with one Australian and one Slovak pilot on board crashed in the country's remote Papua region on September 9, 2011, a company spokesman said, with both men feared dead. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images)

Point/Counterpoint: Landing A Plane If You Had To

The Cost Of Getting Epic

A Etihad Airways Airbus A380 comes in through the fog to land at Heathrow Airport in west London on December 30, 2016. - The Met Office issued a yellow warning of fog, advising that "Driving conditions will be difficult with journeys likely to take longer than usual and delays to air travel possible". (Photo by Justin TALLIS / AFP) (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Things We Actually Like

Big Jet TV, The Best Thing Of Today, Is So Much More Than Just The Big Jets

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.