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Friday, April 27, 2007 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

The strange underworld of airliner porn, and the geeks who make it happen.
By Patrick Smith

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  • Thursday, April 26, 2007 08:56 PM

    That Air Canada 747 Patrick mentions...

    ...might have gone to even more exotic places than he mentioned. Though I'm not by any means a planespotter, I remember in 1991 taking a Garuda (Indonesia) flight from Jakarta to Paris (I *think* it was Paris), by way of Dubai (great duty-free there!) as a refueling stop. The Garuda was a 747-100 that was leased to them by Air Canada (including a Canadian flight crew), but I remember that the seats had the Sabena (Belgium) logo woven into them.

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