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| Nok Beak |
Orn 1: You flown Bird
Air? Attendants wear BEAKS.
Orn 2: Yeah? I was
on a Tiger Air flight with the attendants wearing tails.
Orn 1: I heard,
you know, some of the Dragon Air girls have Lisbeth Salander tattoos.
Orn 2: Oh yeah? I
once flew on Pegasus.
Orn 1: You did
not. Mythical Airline.
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Voice-over
Thought goes into
the business plan. Then comes the naming. Sometimes akin to clutching at last
minute straws. Pelican Freight, fair enough. But KiwiAir, for a flightless
bird? Some thought often goes into costumes but accessories... like beaks and
tails?
(from Air Raising
Stories, 2013).
2 comments:
Kiwi Air does chill the bones of the imagination then. But worse, I thought, would be Dodo Air for some south Pacific island nation - what image does that evoke in the airplane domain?
Thanks for imagining.
Dodo? Running hard to try to get airborne? Speaking of which, just finished reading a highly recommendable book by James Fallows (Atlantic) "China Airborne". Starts with his story of copiloting a Cirrus across Southern China, springboards to an account of China's aviation industry (so frightening I wonder I ever made it out of China alive in the early 80s) a pirouette around the rink of Chinese Industrial Policy, before taking a Cumulo-Nimbo flight out.
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