I don’t know about you, but I have had a few bad flying experiences in the past. Rockin’ and rollin’ in snow storms; a wing that missed the ground by mere inches on a landing; and one nauseous experience in a sardine-can commuter flight, are but a few. Now we learn that the pilot and co-pilot of a Delta Northwest flight, not only overflew their destination but were out of touch with controllers for 78 minutes. It took a flight attendant to say something like, “Hey! Wadda ya doin’?”
It gives …

When I was growing up we lived close to Greater Pittsburgh Airport, the early one, in Moon Township. This was where my brother, my friends and I hung out. There was a movie theater, arcades, actual restaurants, a hotel inside the airport and decks where you could stand and watch the planes land and take off. We mused about where we would travel when we became a grown ups. People dressed up to go to the airport in those days. There was something romantic about it. My parents would bring home those little sample …