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on March 26, 2010
Planes are beautiful, and widebodies are just gorgeous. Widebody aircraft are defined as aircraft with two aisles between seating. The first widebody airliner was the Boeing 747, which entered service...
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on April 25, 2008
I'm Batman
A new form of air-based combat support is about to hit the ground running, so to speak. The Gryphon Attack Glider, at only 30 pounds, can carry up to 100 pounds of munitions, and can ...
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on April 24, 2008
Que Twilight Zone theme...
There was a huge sighting of "mysterious" lights over Phoenix, Arizona Monday night. It was largely publicized with no real explanation as to what it really was....
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on September 18, 2007
On a lighter note, Jack Hanna and a Flamingo (yes, you read that correctly) were trapped in a airport turnstile. Hanna attempted to squeeze the square crate carrying the flamingo through a round turns...
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on July 10, 2007
This is not quite aviation news, but I wanted to share this with you.
Kent Couch, a 47-year-old gas station owner, flew 193 miles from his home. However, he did not do it in an airplane. How? In a la...
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on January 12, 2007
Incredible as it sounds, the recent increases to fares for the London Underground has made it cheaper per mile for passengers to fly first class than to take the subway.
According to the Travel Daily...
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on December 28, 2006
... Who can tell?
This is a sadly funny story from Aero-News.Net that probably beats whatever happened to your bags during DIA's last little snowstorm:
The FBI remains baffled as to how and why l...
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on December 6, 2006
American Airlines Flight 1053 bound for Dallas/Fort Worth from Washington Reagan National Airport was forced to make an emergency landing in Nashville after passengers reported smelling matches.
The ...
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on November 29, 2006
Jeff Harrell of The Shape of Days blog offers up two humorous stories that he doubts are true, but are fun nonetheless. Both allegedly occurred near LAX in the 1990s.
The first one goes like this: Bac...
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on November 26, 2006
Chabua, India: An Indian Air Force duo, neither of them pilots, have set an Indian national record by flying 3,700 km in the longest-ever expedition of powered hang gliding. The previous Indian record...
