Expidite the expidited

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I am headed to the passport office this AM to get a new passport. I didn't have time to do the expidited renewal after getting back from Japan. So I made an special expiditing appointment with the passport folks in Atlanta. I am glad I only have to drive into Atlanta, not fly up to NY or Washington DC. It seems I have had to do some expiditing everytime I have renewed my passport. Passports are good for 10 years. When you get a new passport it is a time to ponder where you will be and what the passport will look like in 10 years. The pic belows shows the wear on my now cancelled passport. it was a 50 page book (the extra pages version) and 46 pages are fully used. Many countries require 3 empty pages to enter their country. So, I got full use of the larger size passport. If you need more pages, you send the passport in and they will "sew-in" more pages. The thickest passport I ever saw was at the Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan border. A truck driver I saw had a Uzbekistan passpo...
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I am in Atlanta back from Hampton VA. It looks like I might need a new computer. The keys aren't always working so well. I plan on being in Atlanta mostly for the next couple of weeks. I do have a trip up North in there. Then it is back to Europe for a couple of weeks.

With my new watch I can measure cabin pressures in commercial airlines. Here are some of the pressures I have measured on some recent trips.

  • 7228 ft. Airbus 320
  • 6913 ft. Airbus 320
  • 6850 ft. CRJ700
  • 5200 ft. CRJ700
  • 5200 ft. CRJ200
  • 4000 ft. CRJ200
  • 3652 ft. CRJ200
  • 6168 ft. Airbus 330
  • 7136 ft. Folkker 100
  • 3832 ft. 767-400
  • 6526 ft. MD88
  • 6135 ft. MD88

There is a pic of my senior management team from 3 continents, 7 countries with operational responsibilities in at least 12 countries.

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John McKinney said…
Is that the Steven Udvar museum in Dulles?
12:56 PM
Charles said…
The picture of the team was taken in front of the actual Apollo 12 space capsule at the Hampton Air and Space Museum in Hampton VA. The museum was very nice. We had dinner there.
4:00 PM
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