May 24, 2007
FedEx Then and Now
I remember sitting in the tower one morning at Milwaukee Mitchell Field probably 25 years ago looking at a pair of Falcon 20s sitting together on the ramp. At one point I watched a truck drive up and start loading box after box on board.
“Whose Falcons are those?” I asked.
“Some company called Federal Express,” came the reply.
How times have changed as you’ll see in this YouTube video called “25 Hours of FedEx Flight Operations.”
Changes Afoot as Jetwhine Nears 20-Year anniversary
Last year we updated the look of the Jetwhine page with some dandy new graphics. This fall, Jetwhine the blog - if anyone even remembers the term blog - will be 20 years old. It's almost of legal drinking age. Seriously though, next in line is s…
Are You a Space Geek?
(Click to listen to audio) My wife Nancy and I are. We had a chance last month to listen to Eileen Collins, a retired Air Force colonel and a NASA space shuttle commander, answer questions after the Chicago premier of her new documentary film, …
