GOING M.I.A. - NEW IPHONE APP - NEW PANACA JANE GEAR

Dear friends and fans of Chicken Wings! We have a few bigger announcements for you today:

GOING M.I.A.

In a few days, Mike will leave for a fire contract in Mexico, and I will leave for a long trip through Southeast Asia. We will both be back by around April 18th. During the following weeks our comic updates will be irregular. We will try to post a strip every week, but we probably might not always make it on time. During this period, our European Online Shop will be completely shut down. If you think about ordering something, please do so before Thursday this week! Our American Online Shop will stay fully operational!

Due to technical problems with our website, we won't be able to blog while we're away. When we've got something to say, we will do that through our forum. We will launch the highly overdue remake and update of our website very soon after we return! So, all you people asking for RSS feeds etc., you won't have to wait much longer!

NEW IPHONE APP

We have just launched our newest iPhone app! It is the first half of our latest book turned into an easy read on your iPhone. Browse, flip through, bookmark and enjoy our strips wherever you go! Includes the encyclopedia and the option to email your favorite strips to friends. You can find it, as well as our previous apps (free sample comic strips and the great game "ChickenWhack") through the page of our iPhone app partner Patoing.

NEW PANACA JANE GEAR

We have also just added new great products of Panaca Jane, Mike's firefighting helicopter nose art turned outdoor fashion brand, to our American Online Shop. You can get the classic t-shirts with a more outdoor-vintage looking distressed look and more of an off-white color on the logo. We now also offer longsleeve shirts and beanies! Check it out!!

Flight Simulators

I was at the HAI Helicopter convention in Houston last week. This is where the strip was invented 2 years ago and last year we gave it to TAP during this time so they have something helicopter specific for the show.
There are many strips being conceived at the helicopter show with so many pilots getting together at a place that sells beer as you can imagine. For me, the best place to hang out is always the hotel lobby next to the convention hall. That's where everybody meets to make plans for the evening. Some of the time you find yourself checking your watch and the evening is already over.
Always reminds me of the strip where Chuck comes back from his CFI refresher course..... (see 31/03/2009 "did you learn a lot?")

Chuck goes to Australia!

Check this out guys!

We were talking in the forum about how many languages Chuck already speaks since we just added "Russian" to the numerous languages you can already find Chicken Wings in all over the globe. Well, as it often happens in the forum, the messing-around commences and the suggestion was made to translate Chicken Wings into "Australian". Well......our buddy (excuse me, "mate") Gibbo from the forum stepped up to the plate and I just had to put this on the front page!
And does anybody else see the humor in the fact that we picked a strip with Chuck and Julio in the snow?

Let's get involved tomorrow !

Hi Everybody!

Before you write us an angry letter accusing us for working AGAINST the AOPA, I want you to know this strip was not intended as a call to pilots get together and help the AOPA!

We were merely poking fun at human nature where most of us agree something is a good idea but only a few of us actually get off the couch to do something. Case and point: We all know the benefits of a good diet and excercise but you can clearly see not everybody actually gets up and runs a mile. ;-)

We are doing our part, among other things, by poking fun at hopefully the right places. It's one thing we know how to do.
HOWEVER!! If anybody out there ever needs our comics and cartoons to underline a point he or she is making, please write us. We will help anybody who is out there fighting the good fight! In the past we have often licensed strips and cartoons for pilots who were fighting local noise complainers and we have been invloved in lots of similar projects (helping airports stay open, brings GA awareness, support our youth, you name it...). The offer still stands!
Get in touch with us! We love input!

The end of the Space Shuttle

I heard an interview with Buzz Aldrin the other day, where he philosophized about the future of space exploration. Very interesting! Among many other things, he mentioned that in his opinion the focus should be more on unmanned space travel with robots and all that instead of shooting people up there. You don't have to worry about one leg of the trip, it just makes more sense to not put people into harms way, and also it's much cheaper.
Well, maybe that's one reason why NASA decided to end the shuttle missions. Somehow I feel a bit sad about that though. Well, there's still the Russians to shoot people up! Although that raises some questions, like, can you redeem frequent flyer miles from the Shuttle on Soyuz rockets? Or what happens to the scientists on the ISS, if the Russians decided to end their program too?

An administrative notice about our forum:
If you sign up as a new member, you now have to wait for manual approval by an admin before you can start posting! We're sorry about this inconvenience, but it seems we always have to increase our security measures to hold those goshdarn spammers at bay. After all, we want our forum to be a comfortable place to hang out.

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