Hotel, Airline, Dining, Car and Tech Reviews
ANA is the first airline in the world to fly the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. To celebrate, the airline’s first two Dreamliners received a special livery that features the numbers 787 painted in large bold numerals on the front of the fuselage.
By the end of 2012, ANA expects to have 20 Dreamliners in its fleet and it will have a total of 55 by 2018. They will be configured in …
Dublin’s dizzying pace of change never ceases to amaze. Case in point is the Docklands neighborhood, where the year-old Gibson Hotel has opened. When I was last in Dublin, four-and-a-half years ago, this area was still dominated by derelict buildings and ancient warehouses from Dublin’s maritime past. Fast forward and the whole area – now called Point Village – is in the vanguard for trendy neighborhoods. The past two years …
Pan Am’s Worldport, which opened in 1960 at the John F. Kennedy International Airport (then Idlewild) in New York, was a harbinger of the jet age. Terminal 3, as it is known today, is used by Delta Air Lines for many of its international flights.
Since I hadn’t flown out of Terminal 3 since Pan Am’s days, I checked with the experts at the Delta forum on FlyerTalk, where several recommended …
The problem with most webcams is that they require a computer of some kind in order to function. Enter Stem Innovation, a company that makes a smart alarm clock and, drum roll please, a smart webcam of sorts.
The iZon Remote Room Monitor needs electricity – and Wi-Fi. No computer or cabling is.necessary.
The iZon, a nicely designed white plastic cylinder, which could pass for a very large lipstick container, has a …
The transcontinental flight, or transcon, turned 100 today. The Vin Fiz Flyer (pictured), a Wright EX biplane, was named after a grape-flavored soft drink of the time. It departed Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn at 4:30 p.m. on September 17, 1911 and landed in Long Beach, California on December 10. It was piloted by Calbraith Perry Rodgers, who navigated across the U.S. by following a train, the Vin Fiz Special, which …
The table fan is a simple device, typically consisting of rotating blades, driven by a motor, that act on the air. The first electric fan was invented shortly after the introduction of electricity in the late nineteenth century and the underlying design and concept has changed little in the ensuing period. That is, of course, until James Dyson a British industrial designer who is best known for his bagless vacuum …
As our taxi turned onto Pennsylvania Avenue, it became clear to me that the Willard InterContinental was indeed at the center of Washington, D.C. What I didn’t realize, until I had stepped inside its carefully restored ornate lobby, was that the hotel was central to the capital’s social and political life as well.
Founded in 1818 and named after Henry Willard, who acquired the hotel in 1847, the Willard earned its …
Boeing’s Dreamliner is on tour. The aircraft making the rounds has the designation ZA003, the third Dreamliner to come off the assembly line. It was built with the intention of being used as a test aircraft and the FAA considers it to be an experimental aircraft. Its first flight was on March 10, 2010 and it is currently travelling the world as part of Boeing’s Dream Tour, which began in …
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