Planespotting

I just discovered this page at Air Canada's site. I collect this information whenever I'm at an airport, both for planes I'm flying and planes I'm not. No particular reason, just seems fun.

In junior high I collected buses.

Anyway. This page is cool because I can check for typos or mistakes (it's hard to read the numbers through a cabin window at night!). It's not cool because I can just copy and paste and then I'm "done." Oh well.

Experimenting with Flickr

2005-04-22.001
Originally uploaded by skaught.

Everybody* says Flickr is cool. So here's a "blog this picture" experiment from inside Flickr. I've never done this before.

The picture, by the by, is skaughty stealing my soul while I napped in London. :-)

* skaughty and cap_hill_latte

737

The Boeing 737 is the most popular airliner of all time. Boeing has actually sold more 737s than Airbus has sold airplanes. If you've been in the air, you've probably been on a 737 (unless you've only flown to Fredericton). On the average about 1,250 737s are in the air at all times; one takes off every 5 seconds.

Finally, some catty marketing from Boeing:

• 1968 First Boeing 737-100 enters service
  
• 1968 First Boeing 737-200 enters service
  
• 1984 First Boeing 737-300 enters service
  
• 1988 First Boeing 737-400 enters service
  
• 1988 First Airbus A320 enters service
  
• 1990 First Boeing 737-500 enters service
  
• 1991 First Airbus A321 enters service
  
• 1996 First Airbus A319 enters service
  
• 1998 First Boeing Next-Generation 737-700 enters service
  
• 1998 First Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 enters service
  
• 1998 First Boeing Next-Generation 737-600 enters service
  
• 1999 First Boeing 757-300 enters service
  
• 2001 First Boeing Next-Generation 737-900 enters service