Article about freight dogs in March issue of Men's Vogue

[Setpoint99]

The March 2008 issue of Men’s Vogue (yes, Men’s Vogue—on pp. 71, 74, 76, and 78), just released, has an article about freight dogs:

“Anything,
Anywhere,
Anytime”

“They haul rinos, auto
parts, and luxury
goods in jumbo jets
that date to the Nixon
administration. Meet
the ‘freight dogs’—
renegade airmen who keep the global
economy aloft.”

The article has a generally admiring tone, along the lines of:
those daring . . . men in their aging flying machines who wrestle their steeds as they lurch about the skies, loaded with the stuff of the international economy, keeping that just-in-time thing going, and routed though unsafe airports worldwide.

The article mentions several FD hangouts around the globe, some FD yarns, and quotes several FDs by name.

And no, there are not any fashion pix of FDs staring steely-eyed into space and lounging languidly about in the latest togs amid cargo pallets.

I checked the Men’s Vogue Website, but the article is not posted online. Guess you’ll have to buy the mag.

[FougaMagister]

Interesting. I'll try to find the magazine here in "Old Europe" :}. It never ceases to amaze me how many people have never even heard of cargo airlines - so the article will help to raise our profile a bit.

Funny though - I don't fly a Jumbo, but a more humble turboprop in which a Rhino would not quite fit! But we do get auto parts, and keep "the world on time". Oh, and while second-hand, our aircraft are more from the George Bush (Sr.) era! I guess we could nearly call them brand-new then ;)

Cheers :cool:

[Pil0tsGirl]

Setpoint's summary was right on---what a fun article!

Here are a couple of my favorite quotes:

"It's a culture that represents the last gasp of the ass-kicking, globe-trotting, hell-for-leather pilot worldview. Brutal labor relations, increasingly automated aircraft, and the dispiriting post-9/11 environment have torched whatever adventure and romance remain in aviation. But freight dogs never got that memo."

and

"So the dogs fly, usually at night, when the world's cargo moves, in odysseys taken up on a moment's notice — say, Frankfurt-Dubai-Nairobi-Entebbe-Lahore-Taipei-Hong Kong."

Here's the link to read the article on line:

http://www.mensvogue.com/business/blackbook/articles/2008/03/freight_dogs

I'm going out to buy a copy to give my freight dog when he gets home from his current "odyssey"! :)

[CR2]

Nice of them to mention PPRuNe...

[Buster Hyman]

I hope there's a picture of Ratty in an Armani suit, gazing longingly at his Tag Heur watch....and scratching his balls!:}

[fesmokie]

Oh it's sad reading that...How I miss Brysons. Those were some great fun days.:\:E

[dkaarma]

Or the luckier dog, the only cargo on a 747 freighter from Chicago to Tokyo, that was released from his cage to play Frisbee catch with the pilot in the cavernous, empty cargo hold and was later photographed, in an homage to freight dogdom, sitting at the captain's station, paws on the control yoke.

Anyone have that photo?