FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geoffrey-arend/subscribe From the Dean of air cargo journalists off the cuff, right to the heart of the air cargo business. It's the past, present and future in conversations with Geoffrey Arend, Award Winning Editor & Publisher of Air Cargo News Flying Typers since 1975 .Geoffrey is the original Air Cargo News .Our publication was in business publishing monthly eight years before a publication of the same name, now owned by the German DVZ Group appeared in the UK during 1983.
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Here I am between James Brooks the Long Island artist who in 1940-42 painted a huge mural titled, “Flight” affixed on Belgian Linen on the upper walls of The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport and Laurance Rockefeller who put up the money to save the mural after he learned it was painted out of sight (read
When Building 260 originally appeared in 1962 at Idlewild Airport Cargo (today JFK) in New York the place heralded a new era for air shippers with all the bells and whistles to advance air cargo to an unheard of new plateau. When that very same building empty and unused for decades bit the dust and was removed a whil
The man who has been the singular Pied Piper of local air cargo clubs, trade associations like AfA and IATA, CNS and now FIATA, and seems to always be there for everybody else, Air Forwarders Association’s Brandon Fried is pictured in an endearing moment at home with Rhodes, the grandson blessing delivered to Brandon
Dear Hearts & Gentle People Here are a group of people that everyone should know about when the question is asked ,”where in the world does air cargo reach out and help others asking for nothing in return?”. This recent snapshot includes some folks serving on the board of Cargo Human Care (CHC). They are (from left) Dr
Getting stuck at the airport is often an interminable experience. It’s enough to pass through the welter of airport security, losing shoes and sometimes dignity to an impassive TSA crew, only to find oneself with few options for food aside from boiled-in-a-bag offal or questionable, plastic-entombed sandwiches. The cul
Welcome and Happy New Year from your friends at Flying Typers. Today we close the chapter on this rather extended year end break in the action and beginning of the New Year of 2025. Let’s in the spirit of the New Year party season recall a great gathering on several New Years Day occasions over the years as we travel