Flying With Fish The Blog for Those Who Fly & Those Who Want to Fly Smarter

There are times on the road when every traveller finds themselves needing a screw driver, bottle opener, knife, eye glass screw driver. There are always “I wish I had” moments when opening something, repairing something or any number of other daily situations that require ‘basic tools.’ Given the strict limitations of what travelers can carry [...]

While I am just starting to embrace shooting video as a photographer, something that translated very clearly from still shooting to video shooting was the need for functional tools. While researching the equipment I needed to transition into shooting DSLR-Video I looked at more than a dozen shooting rigs that provided a multi-functional stable platform. [...]

This week’s iPhone App of The Week is straightforward. No glitz, no pizzazz, just a simple workhorse of an App that is an essential tool for anyone who writes a blog … well who writes a blog using WordPress (which would be me). This week’s iPhone App of the Week is WordPress. The WordPress iPhone [...]

This afternoon the folks at BoardingArea moved Flying With Fish to the front page of the BoardingArea site as a Featured Blogger. As a featured BoardingArea blogger I am now among friends of mine, whose blogs I frequently read and admire, including Brett Snyder’s CrankyFlier and Dan Webb’s Things In The Sky. Lucky for me [...]

At the end of January I had written that I wish I received more reader mail with questions I could answer on Flying With Fish rather than those better responded to in one-to-one e-mail … and last night I received an email from Laura O’Connell that fit that comment. Laura asks “In all the news [...]

I know you’re reading this headline and thinking “How could Mechanix Gloves be essential to travel?”  Well these gloves are essentials to those traveling with heavy items, or schlepping heavy items by hand … or simply dragging a heavy bag long distances through an airport. Having spent years traveling with heavy carry on bags, such [...]

9/2/2010 – Travel Essentials – Adventure Medical Kits : Travel Medic When traveling there is one certainty … at times “things happen,” and if you’re a photographer traveling on assignment chances are you might be looking specifically for ‘things to happen.’ On the road it is best to be prepared, either to maximize your time [...]

8/2/2010 – How Does A Dead Man End Up In An Airplane Wheel Bay? On Sunday afternoon Delta Air Lines Flight 59, a Boeing 777-232, touched down at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport following a 10hr 18min flight from New York’s JFK International Airport. The flight went as expected until routine maintenance revealed an unexpected piece [...]

8/2/2010 – The 747-8 : The Next Generation 747 Takes Its First Flight Today, at 12:39pm PST Boeing’s newest 747, the 747-8, roared down runway 34L and headed into the sky from Paine Field, just one day shy of the 41st anniversary of the first ever Boeing 747 flying. The new 747-8 is not only [...]

8/2/2010 – Travel Essentials – Griffin Technologies PowerBlock Dual USB Charger When I pack my bag saving space is a high priority. When I travel one city over or twelve time-zones away I pack the same way, the smallest possible bag to carry the maximum amount of essentials. When it comes to packing my electronics [...]