Station calling – Visiting Jeppesen
On 15/01/2010, in Station calling, by steve
Introduction
Elroy B. Jeppesen
In the aviation business, like in any other business, certain names rise to the top to be there for decades serving as beacons of progress and hope. Then some of them disappear, never to be heard of again. New generations grow up and for them names like Curtiss or Douglas or McDonnell do not mean anything any more. It is the sign of the times that in recent history we had to witness what was probably the biggest mass extinction in aviation history taking the likes of Pan Am and TWA with it…
Fortunately, others endure and continue to prove that by adapting to the changing environment, survival is possible. Jeppesen is such a company.
Perhaps best known by their aeronautical charts, often referred to by pilots as “jepps”, few people actually realize just how broad an offering Jeppesen has to support all kinds of aviation activities and probably even fewer people know where it all started or where it is all going for that matter. Visiting Jeppesen is like a voyage into the past and future of the aviation support industry.
Station calling – Visiting StuckMic
On 29/10/2009, in Station calling, by steve
Our concept for Roger-Wilco is to make it different. You will judge how successful we are in this endeavor but in the meantime we like to believe that we provide value to our readers in a form and with content that does distinguish us from other, aviation related sites.
This does not mean that we consider the other, sometimes long established, sites inferior in any way. Far from it! We believe that most of them are excellent and provide real value in their specific areas of interest. We also believe that Roger-Wilco is then more of a complementary place, the watering hole you will visit to read up on interesting stories and subjects of common interest either before or after visiting other sites.
In this spirit we are starting a new category called “Say again” where we will bring you news about and from those other places so that after having visited us, you may fly around the internet with a bit more focus. This is in fact the second article in the series; the first one was about an aerial photography site which you can read it here.
But now I would like to tell you about my visit to StuckMic, a site that claims to be the biggest ATC site in the world. Their choice of name is really cute. A stuck microphone (that is what “stuckmic” means) is something both pilots and controllers know all about and hence it is easy to remember.
Station calling – Aerial photography par excellence
On 16/10/2009, in Station calling, by steve
Whether for a project or just for fun, we all need nice, professional photographs every now and then. There are many sites with aircraft but few sites offer the amazing breadth of aerial photographs found here. More then 14k shots of natural and man-made beauty (and aircraft too!) captured by the experts of “Aerial Photography – Hungary from above” are available on their site, organized in an easy to use manner. A search engine helps in case you have a problem finding something.
But this is not all. If you want to have a given site, events or other subjects recorded specifically for you, the company will arrange the aerial photo shoot! It is a young, enthusiastic crew and you will not be disappointed. Contact them here.
