Personal Stories

  • User Post – Three Reasons to be Nice to Your Flight Attendant!

    Submitted by: Elise May Twenty years ago, I was a brand new flight attendant. I was so excited to see the world and use all the knowledge I had gained from my six weeks of training. One thing that was continuously stressed during training was customer service. No matter what, we were to smile and…

  • Exclusive Video – MiG-29 Trip to Edge Of Space

    A few days ago American aviation and space travel enthusiast Robert Mason shared his story with us. Since early childhood he had the dream of traveling into space. In October 2011 his dream finally came true as he traveled to the “Edge Of Space” on board of a Russian MiG-29 UB. Now exclusively to our…

  • User Post – How I Went Into Space

    By Robert Mason The American Academy of Pediatrics reports, “Children are influenced by media—they learn by observing, imitating, and making behaviors their own” (2001, p.1224). I guess they are correct. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—the nineteen eighties—It was during that decade that a very young Robert Mason’s fascination with aero- and astronautics began. From an early age, I…

  • Atlantic Eagle Airlines – A Short Story

    Submitted and written by Jose A. Nochea The old man arrived at the run down hanger on the Northwest corner of the airport as dawn broke with the eastern sunrise through the simple and limited skyline of old Miami. As he opened the doors to the office which was barely an area of 100 square…

  • Best of Flightstory – My Dad And Those Wonderful Flying Machines

    From the Flightstory Archives: Best of – Part 3 My Dad And Those Wonderful Flying Machines By Earlaiman October 2, 2002 It was back in the early thirties; I couldn’t have been more than four or five years old. I remember I was still small enough for my dad to carry me on his shoulders…