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Patrick Smith is an airline pilot who writes the popular Ask the Pilot column for Salon.

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

Smoke in the cabin? Just open the window

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

Behind the underwear bomb

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(Patrick Smith)

Letter from Mumbai

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

Revere Beach reveries

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(<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

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(Patrick Smith)

The things I carry

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(Patrick Smith)

Mexico City does it right

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(Salon)

Curious fliers want to know

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(Jason Reed / Reuters)

Defeated by TSA

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(<span about='http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcl/40868783/' xmlns:cc='http://creativecommons.org/ns#'><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcl/with/40868783/' rel='cc:attributionURL' target='_blank'>DannyMcL</a> / <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/' rel='license' target='_blank'>CC BY 3.0</a></span>)

Where are the books?

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

Escape to “hidden airport”

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The northern lights above the mountains.

Who needs UFOs?

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

You wouldn’t believe how long my flight was!

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

Out of Africa

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

The FAA gets it right — almost

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(<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>)

What do cupcakes and lightsabers have in common?

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(Salon)

Hand over the fork, sir!

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

What Alec Baldwin doesn’t know about air travel

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(News 4 Jax screen shot)

Sometimes a purse is just a purse

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Hüsker Dü (Daniel Corrigan)

Me and Hüsker Dü

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

When the holidays are spent aloft

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(Wikipedia)

Trapped!

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

Are pilot layovers full of intrigue?

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

10 years and counting

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