On this episode of Avtoc,

Airspace Journalist John Walton joins us for a wide-ranging discussion

about aircraft and airlines new and old.

And we speak with Joe Duval, the chief test pilot at Honeywell Aerospace,

about what it's like to fly a 757 with an engine attached to the fuselage

and some of the other interesting projects he's working on.

Hello and welcome to a very special episode 31 of AvTock.

I am Ian Petchnick here as always with Jason Robinowitz and, well I guess sometimes because it's not your first time on the show John Walton

Welcome gentlemen from Central France

So Jason you I don't know how you manage this but you wandered your way from New York to

John's house in Central France and I assume you're both enjoying yourselves mightily

well I sit here and record in Chicago.

So A I'm jealous and B thanks for making the time.

Yeah the struggle is real right now.

I just put my glass of wine down but I got here I left Friday afternoon got here

Saturday afternoon I guess after almost 20 full hours of travel but miraculously

I made it to France without one pickup.

There was no strike by the airline, there was no strike by air traffic control, no strike

by the trains for the most part, and here I am, knee-deep in cheese, bread and wine.

And the reason why you can hear some outside noises, including possibly a chicken, is that my house is under one of the entrances to the French version of the

Machantlet Loop which is the low-altitude high-speed training zone and yet I have not

seen one low-altitude high-speed airplane go by. So if you hear a plane noise that's

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