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Air Carriers & Craft (Premise). Virgin Gala, Italian Style. (6/30/23)—Virgin Galactic has gone and spread ’em again, winging off from its New Mexico Spaceport America Thursday morning with a spirited, if not spicy payload of three Italian airmen/engineers. (Update:...

5/26/21—What started out as a freakish ‘tramgedy’, symptomatic of Italy’s creaky facilities and crumbling transportation infrastructure—the worst since a decaying Genoa bridge collapsed three years ago, killing 43—may have been no accident at all. Because...

VamoScience & Tech. (Premise). TRAVIRONMENT: Climatitis, Sea to Sea. COVID-19: Going Viral On a Global Scale. Getting a Grip On the Grippe. (Premise +). (12/11/23): Headed Into Flying’s Guiltless Age?—Billed as the dawn of ‘guilt-free flying’, a Virgin Atlantic...

Update: 8/2/21—Minsk nearly extended its strong arm grab again—this time at Japan’s Olympics. If not for Poland issuing her an emergency humanitarian visa, sprinter Krystina Timanovskaya, 24, would have been forcibly plucked from Belarus’s track team by Lukashenko...

Early Spring Breakage. (4/5/26+)—Just when it looked like winter was melting away, vernal pleasures were gratefully abloom, all hope keeps springing infernal. Alas, these are the breaks, namely… After the Fall… Revisiting the autumnal fallout, into yet another winter...

Can Boeing Boing Back Now? (Premise). Appetite For XLRation. (4/27/25+)—Bolder lunching, sub on the side. It’s no secret that Airbus SE has been eating rival Boeing’s lunch of late. The European planemaker’s A320/321 family’s been munching away at the...

VAMIFESTwo. Your Recovery Vehicle.   Prelude: VAX Proof vs. VAX-Proof. Update: 5/7/21—The COVID-19 vaccination debate is growing more salient by the hour, spreading virally into the means of injection certification. Questions, issues abound: Who decides? Who declines?...

Vamometer: EU—There’s a new, more welcoming price to be paid for popularity. Just ask Venice, Italy–where Venetians are now further blindsided by one Bezooka of a marital blow-out over the weekend of June 28/29, 2025. Otherwise… Flipping the Skif...

3/8/22—Having ventured Fourth and Labored onward, fallen colorfully through the winter months of 2021, where do we go from here? Looking back, chances are that your long ’21 holiday weekends were flush with clean getaways—fuelfilled, batteries supercharged, GPS coordinated,...

COVID-19: Going Viral On a Global Scale (Premise). March 14, 2020—To trip, or just sit and grip? That is the question as a novel COVID-19 virus spreads globally like fearsome outbreaks of yore. It’s not quite the Bubonic Plague, Black Death or Spanish Influenza of 1918/19...