Month: May 2026

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Chicago O’Hare International Airport

My first visit to Chicago O’Hare International Airport was to get a connecting flight as I as flying from Los Angeles to Boston. Being near the centre of the United States, Chicago O’Hare is a natural hub for many east-west flights. I think I was flying with American Airlines – a code-share partner of Qantas with whom I had flown to Los Angeles with from Sydney Australia.

The announcements by the flight crew right before landing at O’Hare were to help passengers get to their connecting flight, but it had me worried. We were going togate 52 and I needed to get to gate 148 within 10 minutes of landing! I hadn’t heard of an airport with gate numbers going that high before, the flight crew seemed confident I would be able to get to the connecting gate in time.

As it turned out, gate 148 was almost directly opposite gate 52 on the same concourse. I don’t know how that numbering system was worked out!

That was long time ago now – in the 90’s, and the terminals and gates have gone through numerous changes and upgrades since then.

Satellite image of O'Hare airport

Some statistics for Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

ICAO: KORD
Runways: 8 runways – the newest being over 55 years old
Rank: 6th busiest airport in the world
Terminals: 4 terminals, numbered 1, 2, 3 and 5.
Concourses: 9 concourses lettered B, C, E, F, G, H, K, L, M
Gates: There are 250 gates! Gates are now numbered with a their concourse letter and a gate number. ie: C31 is gate 31 on concourse “C” (Terminal 1)

The airport is very centrally located in Chicago, so to and from the airport does not take long (traffic permitting).

Chicago O’Hare has a great web site with all the information you’ll need whether you’re flying in, flying out, or transiting through. https://www.chicago-ohare-airport.com/map

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Harry Potter Exhibition

I watched Harry Potter ever since I was a young kid Mainly the first two movies then the third eventually. I read all of the books, and have watched most of the movies.

Hence I thought about going to a Harry Potter exhibition once and for all. Pottermore was a place that I could visit other potter fans. The reason it gains so much attention is that it creates.

What I love the most is the moving paintings and also the Quidditch parts of the exhibition. But I love the fact it feels just like you are in the potter universe. As a potter fan

Harry Potter: The Exhibition Is Coming To Sydney Olympic Park This May | URBAN LIST SYDNEY

It is located at Sydney Olympic Park which opened in May of 2026. Take a look and a sneak peak if you have not gone.

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Three Global 6500 jets to boost Australia’s maritime surveillance

The Australian Border Force (ABF), which comes under the Department of Home Affairs, has contracted Metrea Australia to provide fixed wing surveillance capability across Australia’s extensive border.

Australia’s borders are quite unique in that they are all coastal, with much of the 60,000km coastline being very remote. The Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (AEEZ) being surveilled is 8.2 million square kilometers, a very large area that can be difficult to patrol in real-time.

The new Bombardier Global 6500 aircraft will provide much needed distance, speed and endurance capability to the ABP. The 6500 has a 6,600-nm range and Mach 0.90 Mmo. Bombardier already supply Learjet and Challenger aircraft to the ABP, and also to countries like Canada, who recently ordered 6 Global 6500 aircraft fort heir RCAF.

Bombardier already has a maintenance facility in Melbourne and in Perth, so they are well equipped to service the aircraft as required.

A delivery date for the aircraft has not yet been announced, but it is expected to the second half of 2027.

Bombardier Global 6500 Specifications

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Gleaming the Cube (1989)

Director: Graeme Clifford

Starring: Christian Slater

Hello I am here to report about a little known film called Gleaming the Cube (1989). The whole movie is sort of a cold war skating thriller movie, which is about Slater’s half adopted brother named Vinh. Vinh works for a pharmaceutical only to learn that something dodgy is occurring in the Vietnamese Anti-Communist Relief Fund he is working on.

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Airshot’s Business

My goal is to start a business by volunteering for other people who have wat their property masters. However in this case there is another reason, to put out fires, or deliver food in remote areas, then in cases like these is to support people and the community. The reason that this community is so compromised is to encourage these anomalies, have occurred in so many ways.

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How Turkish Airlines Owned a Continent: The Africa Strategy Decoded

Key Topics to Pre-Enter:

  • Stat: “TK serves more African destinations than any other non-African airline.”
  • Map Focus: Isolate the African continent on your Flourish map. Describe the “fill-in” pattern.
  • Reasons: Diplomatic ties, cargo demand, limited competition, Istanbul’s perfect layover point.
  • Impact: TK has served more than 120 nations worldwide, and the continent of Africa is by far their best place of their services, especially in unstable regions.
    Call to Action: “Have you flown TK within Africa? Share your experience.”
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Sydney Airport’s Legacy

ICAO: YSSY

Sydney Airport is one of the very first airports to be built in the world. First established in 1919 as a intriguing superb legacy. The reason being is that a lot of it is

Triangular equations like equations like 30 percent of the field.

Sydney Airport - Wikipedia

The airport was renamed Kingsford-Smith Airport in 1936 after the famous Australian pilot Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. These days the airport markets itself as just SYD.

SYD built it’s third runway, completed in 1994, to accommodate more passengers and aircraft to accommodate the growing amount of tourists up to the 2000 Olympics. However there were mass scale protests that occupied most of the area. This led to a curfew that restricts flight operations to and from SYD from 6:00am until 11:00pm each day.

Our favourite plane-spotting location is “Sheps Mound”, a purpose built area near the control tower for people to park and watch aircraft come and go. I have HEAPS of photos on my Instagram from this location.

Other nearby plane-spotting locations are

  1. “The Beach”, which is on the southern side of the airport
  2. Near (or even in) IKEA on Princes Highway in Tempe
  3. The nearby Rydges Hotel for an elevated view
  4. The end of runway 07 when the rare occasions the wind blows from the west.