Driving a US sized mini-van is not easy on the narrow streets of Den Hague and avoiding the ever-present cyclists is a task unto itself but visiting aviation consulting firm To70 was a challenge mainly because of the house numbers. Don’t ask me why No. 60 is tucked away between two much higher house numbers of three… Continue reading Station calling – Visiting To70
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Station calling – Visiting Wings Over Hawai'i
With the aviation industry finally climbing out from the worst crisis it has ever faced, the trade press is also taking note and articles of doom are increasingly being replaced by cautious good news from all corners of the world. But there were people who, even in the middle of the darkest days, tolled to… Continue reading Station calling – Visiting Wings Over Hawai'i
Station calling – Visiting just4airlines.com
No matter what subject one picks, there are hundreds if not thousands of sites on the internet that appear to cover that particular subject, some doing a better job than the others. It is often not easy to find the truly reliable ones. Aviation related sites are no different. This is why it is so… Continue reading Station calling – Visiting just4airlines.com
Station calling – Visiting the Budapest Airport Hotel, your home away from home
Hotels serving airports tend to be either dreary or expensive or both and all too often they do not much care about their guests who are in transit and are unlikely to become regulars anyway. One can find good examples of how it can and should be done at the several hotels around Brussels airport and… Continue reading Station calling – Visiting the Budapest Airport Hotel, your home away from home
Station calling – Visiting the Air Show Action Photo Gallery
OK, I will admit it, I am not a great fan of air shows. I like to visit airports, aircraft manufacturing plants, maintenance hangars… but not air shows. Aircraft are being mishandled there and on occasion they will fight back. Of course my aversion to air shows does not extend to visiting sites on the… Continue reading Station calling – Visiting the Air Show Action Photo Gallery
Station calling – Visiting Jeppesen
Introduction 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… Continue reading Station calling – Visiting Jeppesen
Station calling – Visiting StuckMic
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… Continue reading Station calling – Visiting StuckMic
Station calling – Aerial photography par excellence
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 –… Continue reading Station calling – Aerial photography par excellence