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- Cinematographer, Producer, Director, & PhotographerMotion Pictures and Film | Greater New York City Area, USSummaryJoe Corrigan is an accomplished producer, cinematographer, photographer and production manager with experience working on 6 continents. His work has been used in print, video, and electronic media by clients such as, Discovery Asia, Sony BMG, The London Financial Times and Boeing. Joe is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian and is interested in full-time, freelance, and contract work.Specialties: Cinematography, production management, video and film production, photography, editing, post production, HD and 4K workflow, contract negotiation, technical management.Experience
- Jun 2011 - PresentOwner and Manager / Flight AdventureBuilder, Engineer, Owner, and Operator at Flight Adventure. Flight Adventure, located in Sydney, Australia, obtained a 747 cockpit from a retired aircraft and refitted and re-engineered as a full training simulator.
- May 2005 - PresentManaging Director / Omega PicturesProduces and oversees the production of various programming. Streamlines marketing video assets and related media. Specialises in Cinema, 4k and full HD utilising the Varicam and RED. Clients include: Discovery Asia, The Lifestyle Channel, Euro RSCG Worldwide, and Sony BMG.
- Jun 2007 - Jul 2008Production Manager / CSEG & Arena of Verona OperaManaged various aspects of the production process; including international contract negotiations and translation, logistics management and organisation of personnel.
- Dec 2002 - Mar 2005Production Assistant / Nine Network AustraliaWorked on numerous live and pre-recorded television shows including the “Today” show, “A Current Affair”, and “This Is Your Life” as well as live sporting events including Australian Football League and National Rugby League matches.
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2009 - 2009Bond UniversityMasters of Creative Arts in Film and TV Production
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2005 - 2007Bond UniversityBachelor of Arts in Film, Psychology
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2004 - 2004Istituto Italiano (The Italian Institue - Florence)Advanced Italian
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Interests:Travel, Aviation, Art, Opera, Technology, Photography
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The dust has turned red and the lakes to salt. This is the final earthly frontier. This is Australia. (Taken with instagram)
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- A quick 747 flight
Qantas are flying one of their 747-400’s (VH-OJD) on Domestic services connecting Sydney with Perth. I had the opportunity to fly on the service today - which I might add was great. Full international quality product in all classes was the star of the show.
First officer doing a walk around before flight. American Boeing 777 in a snowstorm at O’Hare.- Riding the rails
When we think of the premium travel experience we tend to think primarily of air travel. Some may also think travel by sea, frankly i couldn’t think of anything worse - see “Costa Concordia” and “Titanic”.
When it comes to travel of any vast distance, granted, there is only one option. That said, for shorter hops it almost seems non sensical to devote half a day (which air travel inevitably ends up costing you) for the sake of a couple of hundred miles. Enter high speed train travel; a fast, efficient, green (if you are that way inclined) and decidedly luxurious way to travel. I’m not talking about luxury rail experiences such as the Orient Express. As wonderful as they may be, you aren’t going to pop over to Milan from Paris on the Orient Express for a day trip or a meeting.
For this particular trip I needed to travel between Milan in Italy and Brig in Switzerland and took the Swiss Railways pendolino up past Lago Maggiore and Domodossola, then under the alps via the Simplon Tunnel. My geeky side had wanted to go under the simple tunnel for some time,
The Simplon was the words longest tunnel from 1906 until 1982 as well as being part of the namesake of the Venice Simplon Orient Express.
No security, no check in, no arriving an hour or two before departure, no taxi fare as the station is right in town, no checked bags, no lost bags - the list goes on, and while on the surface the fare can seem quite a lot. Aside from that, being able to enjoy a 3 course meal for around 37 euros with full silver service in the dining car certainly does ass a lot of value to the experience.
On top of that, the thrill of seeing the ground whizz past at 300 kph is a thrill in itself.
Big headwinds are forcing westbound transatlantic 757s to make unscheduled fuel stops.
Via Autopia: High Winds Forcing Pitstops On Transatlantic Flights
As I found flying from CDG to IAD on a UA757 last month:
To avoid flying with too many empty seats, cash-strapped airlines are now relying on narrow-body aircraft on routes that would not fill up a larger plane.
Though out of production for several years, the 757 has a range of more than 4,500 miles, and is cheap enough to operate that carriers can justify routes that wouldn’t fill the larger 767 or Airbus A330.
The problem? While the 757’s range is admirable for narrowbody medium-haul aircraft, colossal La Nina headwinds facing westbound flights are pushing a significant percentage of flights beyond IFR fuel minimums.
Such flights are forced to divert for fuel - United’s stop of choice is CYYR: Goose Bay, Canada - a Canadian Air Force Base with regional commercial traffic.
Per the WSJ: Nonstop Flights Stop for Fuel
[In December 2011], United said, its 169-seat 757s had to stop 43 times to refuel out of nearly 1,100 flights headed to the U.S. A year earlier, there were only 12 unscheduled stops on roughly the same volume of 757 flights.
In further coverage, the WSJ notes that the FAA approved engineering for installation of auxiliary fuel tanks into the cargo bays of most B75s. Though the investment in such a mod seems unlikely:
Gordon Bethune, a former Boeing executive who went on to become Continental’s chief executive and retired in 2004, said Wednesday that the airline talked to Boeing about installing extra fuel tanks in the bellies of the aircraft.
“But you give up a lot of luggage space and it’s not economical,” he said. “And it’s fairly complicated.”
Until operators using the 757 on max-range routes make modifications, change aircraft, or the winds die, be wary when booking flights with close connections to westbound transatlantic flights.
- Here Comes the Boeing 747-8I
For a good few months, the new Boeing 747, the 747-8 has been serving cargo airlines.
Now the first passenger variant has been made for the launch customer: the German airline, Lufthansa.
In case you were wondering, How to get down from The Upper Deck!
747-8I’s New Escape Slides
The new 747-8I with the new Air Cruisers door 1 and upper deck escape slides deployed. The upper deck slides are a new unique patented design that features the arch tubes. Traditional slides use many large cross tubes and tension straps on the bottom of the slide to give it beam strength. Beam strength prevents the slide from buckling under the load of evacuating passengers. In this case the slide needs to hold several thousand pounds and not buckle. This slide is over 45-feet long.larger version: 747-8I_s_New_Escape_Slides_res.jpg
(source: anonymous Boeing employee)
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- Sure do! “@SouthwestAir: Building the 737-800...we luv that new plane smell! Don't you? http://t.co/7dwtQEXx”
- Some goodies in here. “@KLM: The Air France-KLM Group’s summer schedule. http://t.co/ZuaViR15”
- Video: Tex Johnson barrel rolls the 707 prototype in 1955. Amazing stuff. http://t.co/5tnfkLIo
- Kingfisher Airlines in its final hours. Another bankruptcy for oneworld bringing the total to 4. http://t.co/7vFWqz4c
- This will be great to see! “@chriskaranja: Today @kenyaairways starts Freighter operations with a B747F. More details at 1300hrs.”
- How great is inflight wifi by @Gogo ? If anyone wants to know where I am you can track my flight here! http://t.co/cZouaZVX
- “@Deltalina: Just wanted to say thank you to @Southwestair CEO Gary Kelly for flying 1st class on @Delta back home to Dallas on Mon #Luvit "
- “@AviationViews: Space shuttle's carrier aircraft makes final flight - DVICE http://t.co/RDwZ3P8T”
- Photo: lufthansa: http://t.co/t7riB3PO
- Some of my intercontinental flying to date. http://t.co/g7Wsybr6
- Ever wondered how much a jet airliner costs? Well here is the latest price list! Enjoy. http://t.co/v4rBO1dA
