air travel week
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This Air Travel Map From 1929 Is Absolutely Stunning
The marvels of modern technology mean you can hop online and check the progress — in realtime — of any flight as it crosses the country. But as convenient as that is, there’s still something to be said for what air travellers had at their disposal at the dawn of the jet age.
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A Brief History Of Airspace Design
Think Sydney rush hour is bad? Try doing it half-blindfolded with nothing but a radio and a few blinking lights to show you the way. That’s how pilots navigate the invisible highways in the sky, and there’s a beautiful design that makes it all work. It only took about a hundred years to come up…
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Experimental Airport Acoustics Make Travellers Want To Shop More
In an interesting but somewhat obviously biased New Statesman article, the marketing team at audio-engineering firm Biamp have collected a few interesting examples of how architectural acoustics and urban-scale soundscape design affect mood. They mention, for example, the stressful effects of sustained noise on blood pressure, as well as a reported 15 per cent drop…