A research study conducted by Hotelscheap.org found the Ten Must-Have Travel Apps, and FlightAware was ranked as the 3rd best Travel App. See the ranked list in a nicely wrapped Infographic here: http://new-york.hotelscheap.org/top-ten-travel-apps (new-york.hotelscheap.org) 기타...
This 747 is sitting in a boneyard in Mojave, CA awaiting scrapping. On May 23rd, 2012 the area experienced extreme winds of 70+ miles per hour due to a low pressure zone. Without the weight of its engines, the slightly tail heavy 747 tries to take to the skies one last time. The next day the plane was found to have also rotated about 45 degrees from its original position. (www.youtube.com) 기타...
SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger commercial spaceship owned by Virgin Galactic, has been cleared by the Federal Aviation Administration to begin test flights beyond the atmosphere. Spaceship builder Scaled Composites received an experimental launch permit from the FAA on May 23. (news.discovery.com) 기타...
Sit back,Relax and Listen to the Tunes of Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey. The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner was the first fully pressurized airliner (www.youtube.com) 기타...
Alaska Airlines on Thursday unveiled its new "Aztec Plane," a Bombardier Q400 turboprop painted in the colors of the San Diego State University Aztecs. The 76-seat aircraft, which will fly for Alaska Airlines regional affiliate Horizon Air, is the ninth to be painted for a university located in an Alaska Airlines market. (www.aircraftpilots.com) 기타...
Singapore Airline's (SIA) newest budget airline, Scoot, has named its first two aircraft following a successful Facebook campaign. With some 10,000 submissions, Mr Campbell said: "The response was fantastic, and yielded a huge variety of potential names." (news.asiaone.com) 기타...
Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed "severe storm sentinels" above stormy skies to help researchers and forecasters uncover information about hurricane formation and intensity changes. (www.aircraftpilots.com) 기타...
May 30, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A 747 airliner clipped the tail of a regional jet at O'Hare International Airport this afternoon causing some damage to the aircraft. (abclocal.go.com) 기타...
A man released from jail on Memorial Day wound up boarding a plane without a ticket on Tuesday, San Diego Harbor Police said. United Airlines flight 6323 was bound for Los Angeles from San Diego International Airport when flight attendants counted an extra passenger aboard the plane. (overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com) 기타...
Verne Troyer Multitalented actor Verne Troyer has laughed off reports he was trapped in an airplane toilet for 20 minutes because he could not reach the door handle. (www.starpulse.com) 기타...
But if you did, here’s what you’d learn: That almost every step the agency has taken to protect us from airborne terrorists has either been ineffective or wasteful, or both. And that they’ve got the data to prove it. One Freedom to Travel member, who also happens to be a tenured mathematics professor, applied something called Bayes Rule and the concept of Base Rate Fallacy to the TSA’s behavior-detection methods. Stay with me, here. It revealed that even if TSA’s current screening practices were… (www.elliott.org) 기타...
The first commercial mission to the International Space Station ended Thursday with the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashing down after a flight the company's founder declared a "grand slam." The Dragon drifted beneath parachutes to the surface of the Pacific Ocean, about 560 miles off Baja California, on Thursday morning. It hit the water about a mile from its target. (www.cnn.com) 기타...
