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Links
Useful websites for the Channel Islands: http://www.jerseymet.gov.je/ with webcams of the runway and St Helier! http://www.bbc.co.uk/guernsey/ and http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/ but not Alderney. :( http://www.visitguernsey.com http://www.aboutjersey.net and http://www.jersey.com/ and http://www.jersey.co.uk/ (Have you guys ever thought about consolidating?) http://www.nationaltrustjersey.org.je http://www.flyalderney.com/ http://www.alderney.net – I especially liked the very brief history http://www.alderney.gov.gg
Read more… 10 Jan 07
Alderney Lighthouse
Alderney Lighthouse Originally uploaded by fearoflanding. I’ve set up a separate flickr account for this blog, so I can add photographs quickly and not confuse people with a photostream full of my house in Spain. I’ll probably retroactively add stuff but more important at the moment is to go through all the images (some 200!)…
Read more… 2 Jan 07
Happy New Year!
My resolutions. Short-term: 1) I will get working on Alderney this week and finish it off. 2) I will sort through and post all the millions of photographs gathering virtual dust on my hard-drive. 3) I’ll go back to thinking about this one island at a time rather than get overwhelmed at the total number…
Read more… 30 Dec 06
Isle of Wight – local white wine?
“Marked as medium-dry but not sweet at all. In fact, it’s sour … but surprisingly drinkable after the first shock. I could imagine enjoying it in sunnier climates mixed with mineral water as a tart wine spritzer.” Why I would bother to write all that and not name the wine is beyond me. I don’t…
Read more… 10 Oct 06
New Look
A winter re-design. There were quite a few small things on the site that needed dealing with and Cliff volunteered to help with bringing WordPress to heel. I have to admit I thought the grey was particularly appropriate, given the issues with winter flying in the UK. The categories and archives should be a bit…
Read more… 7 Oct 06
The Shipwreck of the Stella
The Casquets, the set of towers we’d seen on the flight in, is not surprisingly an important figure within the recent history of the island but the most interesting and tragic story is told at the Maritime Museum: the wreck of the Stella. In the 1890s the competition between the ‘London and South Western’ and…
Read more… 5 Oct 06
Accident Analysis
KLM 1673 Veers Off the Runway with Full Right Rudder
On the 28th of November 2004, a Boeing B737 ran off the runway at Barcelona Airport. The weather had been good at Barcelona that evening. The flight crew agreed to land…
Social Media Influencers Weigh Down Aircraft
The fatal crash at Scottsdale Arizona took place directly after take-off. The passengers were a self-proclaimed crowd of social media influencers. The jet-setting influencer who had organised the flight, had…
Demystifying
Someone has to write the TAF
It turns out that there a person sitting there deciding what the weather is going to do. Which seems obvious, except that I had somehow never asked msyelf who “someone”…
The Pilots, the Probes, and the AF447 Verdict
On the 21st of May 2026, the Paris Court of Appeal convicted Airbus and Air France of involuntary manslaughter for their roles in the crash of Air France flight 447,…
History
The CIA's Shark Screen
Today we have a guest post from the CIA! In their archives, researching something completely different, I found the answer to a question I never thought to ask. I immediately…
The First Jet to Land on an Aircraft Carrier (Deliberately)
“The Vampire was the first jet to land on a moving aircraft carrier deliberately.” This quote from Airshow Luke, our MC at the Legacy of Liberty airshow, made me almost…
Fun Stuff
Petrified, Petrified, Petrified
There’s been some interesting reporting in the UK media about a “near disaster” over Canary Wharf involving the captain having to intervene (the horror!) after air data systems failed on…
Aviation Stories You Might Have Missed
I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season. This week, I’ve put together a compilation of interesting items in the press that you might have missed while enjoying…
