Flying

I Learned About Flying From That: A Freight Dog’s Christmas

Christmas Eve 2002 should have been a happy time. It was my first Christmas with my new wife in our new home in Miami. I was a commercial pilot for a small, domestic freight airline. Pilots who do ...
The Irish Times

Freight Dogs: The fate of an ordinary person during Africa’s decade of violence

The “freight dogs” of the title are pilots: shady operators who run illicit cargo in and out of central African war zones. The place is Zaire, subsequently the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ...
East Valley Tribune

‘Freight dogs’ days of flying commerce across the skies are numbered

CHICAGO - As Tawn Makela grapples with the controls of the weather-ragged Learjet, she hears the wind rustle pieces of the American economy. Crammed inside the plane is a mountain of clear plastic ...
Wall Street Journal

For 'Freight Dogs,' The Checks Are Always in the Mail

When pilot Fred Rime took off over the Dallas skyline, all was quiet in the back of the plane. Instead of passengers, the aging, twin-engine jet was loaded to the ceiling with 2,700 pounds of cargo -- ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Iditarod’s top rookie rates her ride: ‘Like driving a Ferrari’

NOME — Very little about Danish adventurer Mille Porsild screams “rookie,” from her vast experience as a polar traveler to her background in mushing. She is a 46-year-old who has made 15 long-haul ...