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Topic: Ask the Pilot

The “Ask the Pilot” travel column was written by airline pilot and author Patrick Smith from 2002 until 2012. The entire “Ask the Pilot” archives can be viewed here.

Firemen enter the plane carrying Ann Romney after the plane made an emergency landing in Denver on Friday. (AP/Romney for President)

Travelers line up at a TSA checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport. (Reuters/Danny Moloshok)

(Patrick Smith)

A smiley-face balloon floats over Revere Beach in Revere, Mass. (AP)

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-61301p1.html'>Xavier Marchant</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Beware the "office" romance

(Patrick Smith)

(Patrick Smith)

(Salon)

(Jason Reed / Reuters)

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Where are the books?

A tree-shaded hideaway at LaGuardia's Marine Air Terminal. (Patrick Smith)

Escape to "hidden airport"

The northern lights above the mountains.

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=83012428'>graph</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Graffiti on a wall in Dakar, Senegal, before the 2008 U.S. presidential election. (Patrick Smith)

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=49644028'>Monika Wisniewska</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-722383p1.html'>B Calkins</a> and <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-342916p1.html'>antipathique</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

(Salon)

Alec Baldwin on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC screen shot)

What Alec Baldwin doesn't know about air travel

(News 4 Jax screen shot)

Hüsker Dü (Daniel Corrigan)

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-83826p1.html'>Maksym Bondarchuk</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

(Wikipedia)

The Octavio Frias de Oliveira bridge, Sao Paulo, Brazil, from room 1017 of the Grand Hyatt. (Patrick Smith)

New York's Belle Harbor neighborhood, after the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 on Nov. 12, 2001. (AP/New York Police Department)

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