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+5 +1Fistfight between two female flight attendants forces pilot to make emergency landing
A Delta flight that departed from Los Angeles and was bound for Minneapolis had to make an emergency landing in Salt Lake City after a fight broke out between two flight attendants.
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+21 +1Paper Airplane Designs
Paper airplane designs (video and diagrams) on Alex's paper airplanes. Learn how to make a paper airplane step by step that flies awesomely.
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+29 +1Boeing will halve jumbo jet production
The world's biggest plane maker Boeing says it will cut production of its 747-8 jumbo jet in half and take a charge of $569m (£397m).
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+37 +1Turbulence injures 21 on Air Canada flight
Twenty-one passengers — including three children — on an Air Canada flight from China have been taken to a Calgary hospital after turbulence caused multiple injuries Wednesday.
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0 +1Bird Bounces Off Plane As It's Landing
Cue the cartoon sounds.
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+17 +1A Plane Crashed In 1977 Filled With 6 Tonnes Of Super Strong Pot. Here's What Happened When Climbers Found It…
The crew over at Outside Magazine just posted up this clip from climbing film Valley Uprising. It’s an amazing tale of a plane that crashed in Yosemite National Park in 1977. It was flying from Colombia and was rammed to the rafters with six tonnes of super strong weed. Unsurprisingly, it was quickly raided by local climbers who thought they’d died and gone to ganja heaven.
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+23 +1America's Iconic War Machine
The most feared bomber plane of the 20th Century is still going strong after 60 years in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. How has it lasted so long?
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+16 +1Malaysia hunts owners of Boeing 747s left at airport
Airport authority places debt-recovery ads demanding fees from bankrupt airlines
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+37 +1I Live in an Airplane
Bruce Campbell lives in an airplane. Yes, an actual jet. The Portland-based aeronautics enthusiast makes his home in a converted Boeing 727 that was once used as a Greek aircraft until the mid-1960s and now resides in a forest near Portland.
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+40 +1Airbus wants to build 'shipping container' cabins that detach from planes
Airbus could be set to create the next-generation of planes after filing a patent featuring detachable cabins. The proposal would see passengers "board" the cabin and take their seats, before it is lifted like a shipping container onto the back of the plane. It is then fixed into place and the plane operates as normal.
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+37 +1The Disturbing Truth About How Airplanes Are Maintained Today
In the last decade, most of the big U.S. airlines have shifted major maintenance work to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China, where few mechanics are F.A.A. certified and inspections have no teeth.
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+23 +1In 1972, Two U.S Representatives Boarded a Plane and Disappeared. What Happened?
For 40-plus years, the fate of Hale Boggs and Nick Begich has been unknown. One dogged journalist is trying to change that. By Rick Anderson.
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+25 +1ISIS bomb likely brought down Russian plane, U.S. says
Days after authorities dismissed claims that ISIS brought down a Russian passenger jet, a U.S. intelligence analysis now suggests that the terror group or its affiliates planted a bomb on the plane. And British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond said his government believes there is a "significant possibility" the plane was brought down by an explosive device. Also, a Middle East source briefed on intelligence matters also said it appears likely a bomb was...
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+27 +1What Brought Down the Russian Metrojet Flight Over Egypt?
A malfunction or malice — and at who's hand? By Jeff Wise.
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+31 +1How the Cold War Vulcan bomber flew again
The Vulcan bomber was one of the most innovative British aircraft of the Cold War period. How did a team get one of these complex giants back into the air?
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+45 +1Airbus 'mezzanine' patent has passengers stacked on top of each other
Cramped seating arrangements on economy flights could get significantly worse if Airbus' latest design ever becomes a reality. A patent filed by the plane manufacturer envisions stacking passengers on top of one another -- a bit like blocks in a game of Tetris. "In modern means of transport, in particular in aircraft, it is very important from an economic point of view to make optimum use of the available space in a passenger cabin,"...
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+19 +1Time-lapse film shows how a Boeing Dreamliner is built
To coincide with the delivery of the latest Boeing Dreamliner jet to British Airways, the plane maker releases a time-lapse film of how it was built.
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+17 +1Blame an FAA Blunder for the Lack of Electric Airplanes
An FAA rule has inadvertently banned the development of electric airplanes in a category that makes it easier and cheaper for manufacturers to design simple, fun-to-fly aircraft.
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+25 +1Where airplanes go to die: Walking around a 747 graveyard
I was close enough to stick my hand inside the jet engine, or sit on the giant landing gear.
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+20 +1What It’s Like to Fly - And Stall - In the Icon A5 Plane
This amazing little aircraft is as fun on the water as it is in the air, and its spin-resistant design makes it safer during a stall.
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