{"id":218,"date":"2008-02-26T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:23","slug":"ethiopian-airs-aviaticus-solaris-empyrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/ethiopian-airs-aviaticus-solaris-empyrus.html","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Air&#8217;s Aviaticus Solaris Empyrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Ethiopia-Airlines-Aviaticus-Solaris-Empyrus.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 360px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/9\/98\/Ethiopia-Airlines-Aviaticus-Solaris-Empyrus.jpg\/446px-Ethiopia-Airlines-Aviaticus-Solaris-Empyrus.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On November 9th, 1970, Janett Schusky was flying on an Ethiopian Airlines &#8216;fanjet&#8217; plane (Probably a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airliners.net\/photo\/Ethiopian-Airlines\/Boeing-720-060B\/1065583\/M\/\">Boeing 720<\/a>) when it collided with a natural feature:  the Equator. Impacting this line, 90\u00b0 off the rotational axis of the planet Earth, caused damage to neither passengers nor craft, but Schusky&#8217;s survival entitled her to the title &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Ethiopia-Airlines-Aviaticus-Solaris-Empyrus.jpg\">Aviaticus Solaris Empyrus<\/a>&#8220;, seemingly a jumble of important-sounding Latin words that may translate to something along the lines of &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Flyer to the Heaven of the Sun<\/span>.&#8221;  Ethiopia&#8217;s famine and troubles during the 80s and 90s may make it seem backward and aboriginal, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethiopianairlines.com\/corporate\/companyhistory.aspx\">they&#8217;ve been operating an airline<\/a> as long as many European countries.   Unlike last week&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/neptune-rex-endorses-twa.html\"> TWA certificate<\/a>, which promotes air travel as a worldly benefit, Air Ethiopia&#8217;s certificate here seems to promote Ethiopia&#8217;s connection to the rest of the world, despite having to cross the Equator to get there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-3340805541499093179?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 9th, 1970, Janett Schusky was flying on an Ethiopian Airlines &#8216;fanjet&#8217; plane (Probably a Boeing 720) when it collided with a natural feature: the Equator. Impacting this line, 90\u00b0 off the rotational axis of the planet Earth, caused damage to neither passengers nor craft, but Schusky&#8217;s survival entitled her to the title &#8220;Aviaticus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[387,131,423,452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}