Unfrozen interviews Mark Vanhoenacker, a commercial airline pilot and author of Imagine a City and Skyfaring. A regular contributor to the New York Times and the Financial Times, he was trained as a historian and started in business before beginning flight training in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world.
Show Notes
Intro/Outro: “Flying,” by The Beatles
Discussed:
- Calvino’s Invisible Cities
- Holiday Inn and Suites, Pittsfield, Mass.
- Empire State Plaza, Albany
- John Hancock Tower, 200 Clarendon, Boston
- James C Scott – Seeing Like a State
Aerotropolises, and/or airport terminals and fringes we like:
- The Circle, Zurich
- The Squaire, Frankfurt
- The Jewel, Changi, Singapore
- Harmondsworth Moor, Hillingdon, London – home of a barn built in 1426, which has a view of the Heathrow control tower
- AeroCity, Delhi
- Virgin Clubhouse, Heathrow
- Schiphol, Amsterdam
- Kastrup, Copenhagen
- Arlanda, Stockholm
- Vancouver
Ways to make aviation fuel green, The Economist, 17 August 2022
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