February 2017 - LONDON, ENGLAND "The Jet Engine"

February 2017 - LONDON, ENGLAND

"The Jet Engine"

Any aviator who knows will tell you the greatest technological achievement of the 20th Century is likely the invention of the jet engine. Think of it - how air travel has changed just through the mere speed that aircraft can now fly through the sky. In many ways, the jet engine has produced a "time machine" of sorts, it could be argued, and shrunk the world by creating time, speeding up the clock of our busy lives. Today, air travel is largely taken for granted by mankind. Jet travel across the globe, from the late 1950's on has truly changed our world forever.

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January 2017 - AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS "The North Atlantic"

January 2017
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS


If you fly to Europe in these modern days and are of European ancestry you often think about those relatives decades ago that made the journey to America. My great-grandparents came from Holland, and immigrated to the United States with hopes of freedom, a better life, and the dream or vision of what we call America. Their journey was not as simple as the way I fly to and from Europe - in a modern jetliner, in the stratosphere moving at over 500 miles and crossing the North Atlantic in 7 or 8 hours. They came from Europe to New York City on a steamship ocean liner, crossing in about a weeks time. The contrast is a thought I often think about when I'm flying the lonely night sky over the blackened sea headed toward Europe.

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