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Cessna advocate, PAPI enthusiast, Class C airspace lover, NTSB report reader, NGPA member, sectional chart pirater, LiveATC.net user, avid reader of Abandoned & Little Known Airfields, Igor Sikorsky fan, altocumulus standing lenticular lover, NOTAM reader, spatial disorientation getter, EMAS supporter, ForeFlight subscription sharer, tail number noter, FlightRadar user, meterologist-in-training, and... flight student!

[zipperpillar]

Air mail

[vintagepromotions]

Great Britain travel poster by Air France (1951). Artwork by Lucien Boucher.

[vintagepromotions]

'Leaving the aircraft with the engine running is prohibited!'

Soviet safety poster (c. 1970).

[vintagepromotions]

Aeroflot travel poster promoting flights from Moscow to Peking (Beijing) with text in English, Russian and Chinese (1959).

[vintagepromotions]

Lufthansa travel poster for Turkey (c. 1960). Artwork by Buttgen.

[vintagepromotions]

Middle East Airlines travel poster for Kuwait (c. 1960). Artwork by Jacques Auriac.

[vintagepromotions]

Swissair travel poster for Italian market featuring the Convair CV-440 Metropolitan airliner (1956). Artwork by Kurt Wirth.

[vintagepromotions]

'wAAyfarer - The total youth travel experience'

American Airlines travel poster (c. 1970).

[vintagepromotions]

'Super service at your command!'

Qantas Empire Airways (QEA) travel poster featuring passengers disembarking from a QEA Lockheed L749-79 Constellation VH-EAB (1947). Artwork by John Maudson.

[outrundis]

[captain-price-unofficially]

I love very job-specific insults. “This is why you still fly a regional jet” is so good.

[localairport]

this is not the terminal

fuck

[localairport]

[tomoleary]

John Berkey “The Concorde Airport ’79” poster art (1979) Source

[dragon-in-a-fez]

when I was a kid I thought the weather guy on TV controlled the weather and he was just telling us what he was gonna do for the next few days. when he said "30% chance of rain Thursday" I thought he was just guessing how likely it was he'd wake up in a rain mood that morning

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I feel like I need to explain. there was a whole internal logic here. there was fucking worldbuilding. I knew there were different weather people on the news in different places and I thought each one was the weather decider for their local area. I knew the word "meteorologist" and thought it was a scientist who had expertise in weather control technology. I never questioned why there was bad weather sometimes because "bad weather" was subjective, after all, I liked cloudy days and snow. and the plants need rain, right? so I figured the weather guy probably had regular meetings with local farmers and gardeners to make sure the amount of precipitation and sunlight we were getting was working out for the crops. I never spoke about this to anyone, because I thought everyone knew. at some point my parents had said "this guy on TV tells us what kind of weather we're going to have" and I misunderstood exactly one fundamental point and built out an enormous set of logical conclusions from there. this lasted from like age 3 to age 6 btw

[tobiasdrake]

"Elon Musk is literally bribing voters in swing states. Isn't that illegal!?"

If this thought has crossed your mind, then I'm sorry. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this.

But it will be the election this November that decides if it's illegal or not.

This year, we are at the breaking point in the intersection of law and politics where whether or not the President's team can outright commit crimes to consolidate his power and destroy his enemies is on the ballot and up for vote.

[basuralindo]

Important commentary by @aniseandspearmint

[undeadcorvid]

If you want to hear a lawyer risk a great deal of his established and successful career to say pretty much that (within the first minute of the video he says 'law is the result of politics'), and lay out the reasons you should vote blue REGARDLESS OF ANY OTHER POLICY PREFERENCE, then this video is mandatory viewing.

[kaijuno]

[agriocnemis]

@electric-borealis

[planeyboys]

They made a plane that looks like a styrofoam takeaway box