Plane Tales

You are sitting in your airliner and the handsome, pretty or in a non-binary sense cute, elegant, lovely or in a non exclusive way charming, fine, interesting or personable flight attendant is standing in front of you to demonstrate the safety features of your aircraft. Hopefully if you enjoy the airline pilot guy enough to be listening to this you might have more than just a passing interest in what safety equipment there is onboard the average big, well equipped, airliner. Most airlines show the gender-specific pronouns that are typically used to refer to people in the way they identify   Door Arming controls   Girt Bar system that can be found on older style aircraft   Steph beside 'her' emergency exit   Slide use in theory and in practice   Disobeying safety instructions can lead to increased danger and possible loss of life   The early days of air travel   Jack Grant, an Australian, who invented the modern inflatable slide and won the Cumberland trophy     Aircraft safety equipment Ha