Web Week

Airside TV: This locally produced site bills itself as the "world's first aviation-based free-to-air streaming video television channel on the web." If you're into planes - sorry, aircraft - it's definitely worth checking out. As well as featuring a programme of streaming videos, the site includes an aircraft for sale section, live airport web cams, industry news, time zones and global weather as seen from satellites. Viewers are also invited to submit their own flying-related video clips, and "Hard landings at Wellington Airport" by Airside TV's co-creator Paul Brennan sets the standard. Watching the airliners and light aircraft battling Wellington's notorious turbulence and strong crosswinds is quite hair-raising.

Brief American English-British English Glossary: Like Britain, New Zealand may be divided from the United States by a common language, but this A-Z glossary, which translates US English into the Queen's English, might help to close the gap. Most understand that when an American asks for the "check" he or she means the bill, but did you know that in some states a tadpole is known as a pollywog or that the American word for rawlplug is mollybolt? However there is no mention of the silly Stateside habit of calling a main course an entree.

Links:


airside tv

Brief American English-British English Dictionary