Rightshoring

If Offshore development or offshoring is something the world is coming to grips with there are more.

Rightshoring or bestshoring is described as the process of selecting the right combination of farshoring, nearshoring, inshoring, offshoring, sameshoring, and homeshoring.

I wouldn't be surprised if one day we all go sailing and blame it on all this shoring business.

The return of the fly by...

Just a few days ago I wrote about this incident when I saw a Air New Zealand flight cross my flight mid air. Recently I got this mail of a Lufthansa and a United flying next to each other. Due to the telephoto distortion, the Jumbo 747 being 3 times larger than the 757 and being behind it, gives this fantastic optical illusion that they are flying inches from each other when they are actually 225 metres apart and about to land at SFO!!!

The photo was taken by Ben Wang an Airline photographer (Ben Wang's homepage). Apparently the photo is copyrighted. I tried to get the link of the photo from Ben Wang's website, but he has posted lots of hotos and there is no search feature. So, here is the link from another blog 757-747 telephoto distortion

The website Airlines.net has several other photographs of planes landing and taking off with one photo that has 5 flights in one shot!!

Mid air Mandarin

An AA flight from London to Chicago had instructions inside the toilet/lavatory/rest room in English and Mandarin (or may be Kanji (?)/Japanese).

I wonder how long it will be before we see one in Hindi.

I remember having a discussion about an year ago, with some friends, about how long it will be before we see exchange rates for Indian Rupee being displayed in the big digital display outside the currency exchange bureaus at airports and other touristy destinations. I don't know the conclusion of the discussion but my guess is 3 years.

Bravo Zulu...

On a UA flight to San Francisco while still waiting to be taxied and to take off I was shuffling the channels on the on-board radio. I found that UA uses channel 9 (I think) for the passengers to be able to hear the conversations between the cockpit and the air traffic control. So I got hooked on to it during the entire trip. Here are some interesting conversations at London, San Francisco or at the stopover.

1) The pilot says, "this is Air XX flight no. ##"...the ATC responds, "so what do you want me to do?"

2) The pilot - this is flight xxx when can I take off...the ATC - I have no idea where you are and how far you are from the tarmac?

Fly by...

On a flight from London to Chicago, four hours into the flight when we were somewhere over the Atlantic I noticed an Air Newzealand plane in mid air. It was flying in the opposite direction and at a much higher altitude. Appearing like a tiny paper folded plane it wizzed over at great speed.

I don't know about you, but this was the first time I have seen something like this when mid-way into the journey.

After a long wait

If you have been to my profile you would have noticed that it has taken me a long time to post something here. So I have decided I will start with "musings", something that I notice in my day-to-day life which I find strange, intriguing, a first experience, a novelty.

This could be from things around me or things I notice in whatever I'm reading. I will try to post each one separately, but more importantly, I hope I will come across something everyday. And hopefully, this will at least make me write blogs that are more than just musings.