Just a wee airplane
My boss would appreciate the humor of my flights to Salt Lake City this morning. Just yesterday, we were comparing flights to our varied destinations (he travels so much for work he needs his own "Bob on Tour" tshirts with the dates and cities). I rather boastfully declared that I never take commuter flights on small planes b/c it's part of my pact with myself to avoid dying as long as possible. He said he takes the tiny jets all the time, but he was concerned that the equipment description for his flight today was "Saab." Brings to mind a coup with wings.
So, of course when I prepare to board this morning, I am surprised when the back of the plane is prompted to board from "rows 7 and higher." I look out the window, and there's a tiny jet. I considered momentarily that I could not go, but the feeling wasn't overly strong. Halfway through the first flight, after some deep breathing and a little praying, I concluded, "a jet is a jet is a jet." Still, I felt a little uneasy and relieved to reach Salt Lake. Looks like the flights home are on more substantial planes.
Tulsa was flat--even flatter than Arkansas! I was surprised, also, to see such a small airport outside of the South, but I guess there are no boundaries for those. Utah is shockingly beautiful, as expected.
Read an interesting book on the plane: Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think. "The industry standard" in web usability. More about this later.
posted by shorttina @ 2:48 PM
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4 Comments:
I finally got around to creating my own blogger account so that I could leave you comments. Yes, I am out here, and I am reading your blog. Do keep posting and raising that eyebrow "involuntarily."
Yay! Jojo is in the house!!
Heya! I hope you're doing well. I just got to read all of this. I am glad you braved the small plane. I do it all the time and sometimes I like that there's more personal service on these planes and not an insane line to wait in when you're boarding or deboarding.
I have two quick points of interest, and then I gotta get back to work.
1. Arkansas is not all flat. Mostly just the delta area and the strip that is I-40 are flat, so people get that misperception that Arkansas is flat. In fact, a lot of it's terrain is mountain ranges. There are the Ouachita mountains and the Ozarks that stretch beautifully for hours when you're driving. In contrast, Memphis, Mississippi, Texas, and Oklahoma are waywayway more flat.
2. The car brand Saab is considered so reputable in part because the engineers used the same idea behind building its engines as they did with the airplane engines they built (they got started with the plane engines and then branched out to cars, I believe). Saab engines are supposed to be especially good engines, so tell Bob to rest assured. :)
Tammi!
I stand corrected on both points, particularly the one about Arkansas's topography. You know that I am a Lover of Arkansas (but not in the same way as Pres. Clinton--wakka wakka), its land and its good people. I would not want to add to the stereotype of Arkansas as a flat, dull place. In fact many parts of it are beautiful. I guess I do mostly see the I-40 part of it, so sometimes I forget.
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