Literature
I'm writing about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
I'm thinking about this aircraft's composite promises and early reception. I'm thinking about its innovations as well as its expected reiterations. Its electrical shorts and its ultra-sleek toilet, its LED ambient interior lighting and its windows that are a little bit bigger than other commercial airliners' windows.
The Dreamliner (what a name!) has been called "a plane of the future," but it looks surprisingly familiar. In this world, at this stage of species-being, what hopes and realities do we find in a new aircraft and its attendant aura?
- Revisiting Air Force One
Air Force One w/ AT-ATs © Joey DeVilla Ten years ago, when I was a graduate student at UC Davis, I wrote a paper about the presidential airplane Air Force One. It was for a seminar on political theory, and I was considering this exceptional...
- Two Ways Of Looking At Emergency Slides
This gem just arrived in the mail: An Air France A380 emergency briefing card, and some airport haiku, from my awesome & inspiring architect cousin, Emily White! One haiku reads: Passenger paradeMysterious upper deckWho is sitting there? In other...
- The Bae 146: A Life
Northwest Avro RJ (a BAE 146 variant) at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, 2004 In her new novel Contents May Have Shifted, Pam Houston starts off one of the in-flight inter-chapters (a descent into the Kingdom of Bhutan) by describing the British Aerospace...
- What Is "airport Reading"?
Dominique Browning has a fascinating piece in the New York Times today called "Learning to Love Airport Lit." The article is a persuasive (and also humorous) take on the most effective kinds of airport reading. In Browning's words, the ideal airport...
- More Faces & Figures, This Time On Autoracks
This morning I saw more faces and figures on "autoracks" as they passed?a great rat, a snowman, a mystery visage, and some sort of hooded ninja: As I watched these faces roll by I was reminded of when I lived in Montana and saw similarly striking...
Literature
Writing about the Dreamliner
I'm writing about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
I'm thinking about this aircraft's composite promises and early reception. I'm thinking about its innovations as well as its expected reiterations. Its electrical shorts and its ultra-sleek toilet, its LED ambient interior lighting and its windows that are a little bit bigger than other commercial airliners' windows.
The Dreamliner (what a name!) has been called "a plane of the future," but it looks surprisingly familiar. In this world, at this stage of species-being, what hopes and realities do we find in a new aircraft and its attendant aura?
- Revisiting Air Force One
Air Force One w/ AT-ATs © Joey DeVilla Ten years ago, when I was a graduate student at UC Davis, I wrote a paper about the presidential airplane Air Force One. It was for a seminar on political theory, and I was considering this exceptional...
- Two Ways Of Looking At Emergency Slides
This gem just arrived in the mail: An Air France A380 emergency briefing card, and some airport haiku, from my awesome & inspiring architect cousin, Emily White! One haiku reads: Passenger paradeMysterious upper deckWho is sitting there? In other...
- The Bae 146: A Life
Northwest Avro RJ (a BAE 146 variant) at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, 2004 In her new novel Contents May Have Shifted, Pam Houston starts off one of the in-flight inter-chapters (a descent into the Kingdom of Bhutan) by describing the British Aerospace...
- What Is "airport Reading"?
Dominique Browning has a fascinating piece in the New York Times today called "Learning to Love Airport Lit." The article is a persuasive (and also humorous) take on the most effective kinds of airport reading. In Browning's words, the ideal airport...
- More Faces & Figures, This Time On Autoracks
This morning I saw more faces and figures on "autoracks" as they passed?a great rat, a snowman, a mystery visage, and some sort of hooded ninja: As I watched these faces roll by I was reminded of when I lived in Montana and saw similarly striking...