We had a typical full English fry-up at our hotel dining room on a recent visit to London. Q: Can you identify what some of the ingredients are called in both English and American languages?

A: Bangers (sausages), sunny-sides (fried eggs), mushies (mushrooms), black pudding (blood sausage) and grilled tomatoes. The calorie-loaded breakfast also included baked beans (choose your own nickname), but no bubble and squeak (broiled leftover vegetables) this time.

View of beautiful landscape with Sky Tower dominating scene.

Elvis would say, “Thank ya, thank ya ver’ much!”

Southwest Airlines just started a once-a-day non-stop service between Boston MA and Nashville TN. For the local airport, Metropolitan Nashville (BNA), it’s currently the only major airline non-stop between the two cities.

Southwest's other non-stop routes from Boston Logan (BOS) include Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall (BWI), Chicago Midway (MDW), Denver, Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX) and Lambert St. Louis (STL).

This could be the entire future flight attendant speech you’ll hear after you’re in your seat:

“Welcome aboard your New York to London flight. Please secure your seat belt. (pause) We’ll be landing in London in a few minutes.”

According to dailymail.co.uk, a future supersonic passenger aircraft will fly between London to New York in less than one hour. The experimental X-51A Waverider is designed to accelerate to as much as five times the speed of sound.

A prototype experimental Waverider was recently launched from a B52 bomber ten miles above the Pacific Ocean in its latest test. If successful, within just a few years, you’ll be able to fly anywhere in the world within an hour.

Of course, that doesn’t include the hours caught in jammed auto traffic on the way to the airport, and then standing in line to be molested by security agents.