Hello and welcome to episode 254 of Avtoc I am Ian Petchnick here as always with Jesner Benoels. How are you, Ian? We're back on a Wednesday.

We're back on a Wednesday. We've been very, very off schedule the last few weeks for a variety of reasons, but we're back on schedule and yeah, I feel right. How are you, sir?

I'm good. We're still a couple hours off from our normal

recording time because I'm off today and I'm not working so I can record before five.

What a day, but a feeling. What is this madness? I don't know but it's been a week already. Yeah, it's been a week already and it's shaping up to be quite the weekend

Should we start with what hasn't happened yet? I think just to get it out of the way with.

Last week we talked about Taylor Swift's anticipated flight and it's still going on.

So hopefully all of this is over and done with this weekend. I cannot wait for it to be over. My dearest hope is that it will introduce flight tracking and being an Av geek to a whole new segment of the population.

That is my stride Nicole, but I didn't know that I would still be talking about this. But I stand by what I said last week where I don't think the flight's going to go directly from Tokyo to Las Vegas. So I'm sticking by that and I just wanted to re-up my statements on that just

so that we can talk about it later on. And done.

Done.

Well, I mean, she could, you know, area 51 is probably the next nearby airport with capacity.

Could connect down on Janet, why not, right? If anyone can do it.

Why not? Why not? Let's not feed any conspiracy theories. The other thing that I wanted to bring up from last week is that so many of you sent in heartwarming and funny and earnest stories about how you became Avgeeks that I'm still

working through all of them and I haven't had a chance to really kind of edit them

down so that we can present them on the podcast quite yet.

So keep those coming and I'm working my way through them, I'm about two-thirds of the way through them,

so those that have come in so far. So please keep them coming. If you've got them, email us at

podcast at fr-24.com and we'll have those in the next couple episodes to

share with everyone. So thank you, thank you all so much.

Last week we said that it was entirely possible that we could get the preliminary report on

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 by the end of the week that didn't happen but it did happen at the beginning of this week.

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