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Warning: Falling Airplane Parts

Our neighbors to the west got a real travel scare this week… and they weren’t even on vacation. The St. Clair family is counting their blessings after part of a commercial airliner fell out of the sky and into their backyard. Luckily no one was injured. Still, the incident has left Judy St. Clair, who found the two-foot-long piece of metal stuck in her grass, shaken up. “I was coming out with the laundry basket to hang my laundry, and I noticed a piece of metal in my yard, a large, large piece of metal in my yard,” St. Clair … Continue reading →

How To Get Your Hands On A Piece Of Aviation History

One of my dad’s dreams was to fly on the Concorde. He used to talk about it all the time. In fact, as a child I had visions of winning the lottery or becoming so successful in my career that I could buy him a ticket and fulfill his dream to ride on the supersonic jet. So much for that idea. However, I could settle for the next best thing–buying him a piece of the legendary aircraft. Then, again, I probably don’t even have enough to buy him a Concorde toilet seat. Yes, even the now-defunct needle nose airplane’s toilet … Continue reading →

The FDA Black Box

Have you heard about the other kind of black box? Not the kind in an airplane, but the kind on your prescription medications. A black box on the label or printed materials with your prescription medications can indicate the potential life threatening side effects. Let’s keep things in perspective here — if transportation was labeled like medication, lots of methods of travel would earn black boxes. And NOT taking a black box medication may be even more deadly than taking it. Avandia (a diabetes medication) received a black box warning in May 2007 for slightly raising a person’s chances of … Continue reading →