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	<title>Alexandra Highcrest Magazine &#187; Flights of Fancy</title>
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	<description>I used to work in fashion, then I took an arrow to the knee.</description>
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		<title>Money, Morality and SWA</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2009/12/12/money-morality-and-swa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paddy O'Conure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kyla Ebbert is the sort of woman who would never rate media attention unless she was involved in a serious crime or tragedy but she made national news in the US by committing a questionable fashion crime. In the summer of 2007 Miss Ebbert, a 23-year-old college student and Hooters waitress, boarded a Southwest Airlines flight at San Diego, destined for Tuscon. A Southwest flight attendant asked her to change her outfit – a mini-skirt, a sweater over a tank top and heels – or get off the plane. The attendant believed the skimpy outfit might offend other passengers. Kyla fought back and was allowed to remain on board after, she claimed, being lectured on proper dress. Southwest later explained its treatment of Miss Ebbert in a letter to her mother (huh?), saying it could remove any passenger “whose clothing is lewd, obscene or patently offensive” to ensure the comfort of children and “adults with heightened sensitivities.” Not surprisingly Kyla said she was judged unfairly and humiliated, but perhaps not too humiliated. Southwest later apologized to Ebbert and launched a fare sale that included “miniskirt prices,” and in typical American fashion Kyla parlayed her clash with the fashion police into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Not So Red Baron</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2009/10/31/the-not-so-red-baron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paddy O'Conure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget today’s anemic, vanilla sex teenage vampires, and campy zombies, this time of year my memory conjures up Snoopy and his ongoing battle with the Red Baron, popularized in the Peanuts comic strip and in the TV special It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Snoopy’s nemesis was inspired by the Red Baron of history, WWI German ace Manfred von Richthofen. Richthofen flew an assortment of aircraft during his career but is most commonly associated with a red Fokker Dr.I. In fact most of the triplanes he flew were not all red, and he only scored 19 of his 80 victories in the aircraft. At best Richthofen was the partially-red Baron, unless you think of the blood he spilled. Snoopy never did vanquish his nemesis, he was usually the vanquished, but Richthofen was shot down and killed just after 11 a.m. on 21 April 1918, while flying over Morlancourt Ridge, near the Somme River. The Baron had been pursuing (at very low altitude) a Sopwith Camel piloted by novice Canadian pilot Lieutenant Wilfrid “Wop” May of No. 209 Squadron, Royal Air Force. In turn, Richthofen was spotted and briefly attacked by another Camel piloted by friend (and flight Commander) of May’s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Godiva&#8217;s Kittyhawk Connection</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2009/09/25/lady-godivas-kittyhawk-connection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paddy O'Conure</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nose art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Legend Most of us have heard the legend of Lady Godiva’s ride, naked, through the streets of Coventry. According to the earliest surviving source for the legend, the Chronica of Roger of Wendover (d. 1237), Godiva pleaded with her husband Leofric, the “grim” Earl of Mercer and Lord of Coventry, to relieve the heavy tax burden he had imposed on the citizens of Coventry. Leofric, weary of her persistent pleading, said he would grant her request if she rode naked through Coventry. The rest of the story is not documented but it is said that Countess Godiva’s compassion for the people of Coventry was so great that she overcame her horror of exposing herself to the public and agreed to her husband’s challenge. She ordered the citizenry to remain indoors and keep their windows and doors barred during her ride. She loosened her hair just before the ride so her tresses could act as a cloak, then she rode through the silent streets unseen by the people, who had obeyed her command out of respect for the Countess. One man (there’s always one) called Tom was unable to resist the temptation to peep at the Lady (hence the term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff, a Vietnam War Crusader</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2009/08/14/stuff-a-vietnam-war-crusader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paddy O'Conure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since pilots started painting pictures of women on their airplanes they&#8217;ve been inspired by the great pin-up artists of their times. World War II era nose art painters for instance regularly copied the work of Alberto Vargas and George Petty. Playboy was the best-known girlie magazine of the 1960s. Playboy pin-ups and &#8220;Bunny&#8221; imagery graced many US military aircraft flying in the skies over Vietnam such as Stuff, the Vought F-8E Crusader presented here. If you appreciate the art and aesthetic of aeronautical design you recognize that the Crusader is a beauty. She was designed to do one thing, shoot down enemy planes, and she has been described by aviation historians as the US Navy&#8217;s last pure gun fighter. The aircraft that eventually replaced the F-8 were big, multi-role designs able to carry as heavy a weapons load as a WW II bomber. US Navy fighters that followed the F-8 were capable but they lacked her elegant lines; the era of the beautiful navy fighter ended with the Crusader. Sources: a Russian aviation journal, History of Aircraft Nose Art, WW I to Today]]></description>
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		<title>Jinkin Josie</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2009/07/11/jinkin-josie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paddy O'Conure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jinkin Josie is a Republic EF-105F Wild Weasel. Wild Weasels are aircraft modified and equipped to attack enemy surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites. Josie was flown by Captain Vern Harris and Captain Kim Pepperell of the 357th Tactical Fighter Squadron over North Vietnam in 1968. Compare Jinkin Josie&#8217;s nose art to Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s, Josie&#8217;s rather risqué no? Source: Wild Weasel. The SAM Suppression Story]]></description>
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		<title>Kate Moss is Virgin Birthday Girl</title>
		<link>http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2009/07/05/kate-moss-is-virgin-birthday-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Highcrest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boeing 747]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Moss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pamela Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Richard Branson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virgin Atlantic celebrated its 25th birthday on 22nd June and Sir Richard Branson invited Kate Moss to the party. Moss, dressed in a red playsuit and Yves Saint Laurent Tribute platform heels, emulated the Virgin Atlantic flying girls, painted in the style of the Alberto Vargas pin-ups of the 1940s on the noses of the fleet&#8217;s liners. Airplanes had been decorated with female imagery long before Branson or Moss were born and by military standards Virgin&#8217;s nose art is quite tame, but it&#8217;s good to see the tradition being kept alive. Moss tottered in the footsteps of Pamela Anderson, who modeled as Virgin&#8217;s birthday girl in June 2005. Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s current advertising campaign has been criticized for being sexist (more on this to come) but we at AHM like to give credit where it&#8217;s due. We applaud Sir Richard for using celebrity women such as Kate and Pamela as models for Virgin&#8217;s birthday celebrations. Branson could&#8217;ve whistled up any one of a number of rail-thin teenage models to work these gigs but instead he&#8217;s featured adult women with real women&#8217;s bodies. After the photo shoot Moss, Branson, and a handful of other celebs boarded the Boeing 747 Birthday Girl and [...]]]></description>
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