Keep Your Pants On—Please
FROM CAP’N MERYL
Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2005-02-14-ask-the-captain_x.htm
“Keep Your Pants On—Please!”
This week’s column at USAToday.com (through the abovelink) features a brand new section of my Photo Gallery,called “A Much Younger Cap’n Meryl.” To go directly tothis Album now click here: http://www.fromthecockpit.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=13Some, but not all, of these picture appear in “TheWorld At My Feet.”
Because I am still on vacation and not having anycurrent flying adventures (or misadventures), I thoughtI’d take this opportunity to tell you about a flightwhen I was a pilot in Alaska for a long-gone companycalled “Wien Air Alaska.” “Wien” is pronounced Weenand is the family name of the brothers who founded theairline.
Before I go on, though, I always like to mention inpassing that a Wien pilot once showed me his pilot’slicense, signed by Orville Wright. I know I’m old, butnot THAT old. It’s just that we sometimes forget, Ithink, how […]
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