Have You Flown the Embraer E175?

Have You Flown the Embraer E175?

Source: Yixin Chen, Jetphotos.com This little plane has always intrigued me. I saw an Embraer E-Jet for the first time in the mid-2000s during a layover in Nashville. US Airways was quickly becoming an all-Airbus fleet (cost savings over Boeing), the A318 had just...
Have You Flown JSX?

Have You Flown JSX?

🎵 Cuanto le gusta, le gusta, le gusta, le gusta, le gusta, le gusta… 🎵 It was late 2020 or early 2021, and I was picking up my mom—a WN (Southwest) flight attendant—from work at Hobby Airport. I like to park in the cell phone lot and track the incoming arrivals on...
The Case for Florsheim

The Case for Florsheim

Source: The Barn Shoes I was born and raised in New Orleans, with family scattered throughout the city—Uptown, Gert Town, the 7th Ward, all of that. But most of my time was spent between the East with my mom, and Algiers with my late grandfather, the legendary Lloyd...