Oprah chats with Virgin
No, Oprah is not turning into Jerry Springer, rather, she?s helping Virgin America celebrate the launch of in-flight internet access
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Wheel Falls off Plane as it Lands - Incident Caught on Video
The title pretty much says it all. The video says it even better!
You're not supposed to be operating electronic equipment during take off and landing, but people do anyway. Just check out the amount of take off and landing videos on You Tube. When this video was
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Landing With A Bang!
Caught on camera: A SouthWest Airlines Boeing landing at Houston Airport has had a tyre burst on landing and catch alight
Last night a SouthWest Airlines Boeing 737 plane?s tyre blew on landing and then caught fire. The difference with this emergency was that the
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Sucked in Japan Airlines!
JAL outdoes US Airways in the ?Look what we can suck into our engines without injuring any passengers? game?
Yesterday
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Turbulence for Qantas
The aviation industry is suffering during this economic climate and Qantas has been hit hard
For
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Up in the Air
It?s all happening in the skies at the moment with airlines being awarded, new flights heading in and out of the country as well as new carriers coming in
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Airline of the Year Awards: Move over Singapore Airlines!
The Skytrax Airline of the Year Award winners have just been announced and Singapore Airlines has been toppled from the number one spot
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Tiger Airways to Fly into Sydney
Budget airlines Tiger Airways has announced it will begin flying Australia?s busiest route, Sydney to Melbourne
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Emirates Pulls A380 out of New York Service
The carrier with the largest number of A380 orders made the surprise announcement yesterday
*Two
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Once Upon a Time, When Qantas was Australia Asia Airlines
In 1990 Qantas had to repaint some of its fleet with different branding under the carrier name of Australia Asia Airlines. PopSci got to the bottom of why
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New Zealand Flights to Become Domestic?
Trans-Tasman flights could be getting a whole lost easier soon
Canadians can hop in and out of
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Video: NASA Drops A Helicopter From Midair to Test New Anti-Crash Tech
No stranger to rough landings, NASA just engineered a crash of its own design to
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QANTAS kills off its final 747-300
The introduction of the A380 means the old workhorse no longer has a place on the QANTAS roster
The
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Southwest?s Boeing 737 With Blowhole
The airlines famous for painting a whale on the side of one of its Boeing 737s has taken the idea one step too far? Also: Air France to receive next A380
Southwest Airlines, one of the biggest airlines in the United States (mainly a domestic carrier using Boeing 737
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Singapore Airlines to introduce Airbus A330 on Australian routes
The buzz about the A380 is over. Now it?s all about the A330-300 and its new cabin
OK, the
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Heathrow to Debut Futuristic Travel Pods
See the video of Heathrow's futuristic travel pods here!
Heathrow, the UK?s main international
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American Airlines Solves Their Global Financial Crisis Woes With One Ticket
Airlines may be losing money quicker than Hollywood stars lose weight, but American Airlines has found a solution? charge $42 million for a ticket - seriously!
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Qantas A330 Hits Severe Turbulence Over Malaysia
A Qantas Airbus A330-300 on route from Hong Kong to Perth hit severe turbulence over Malaysia, injuring seven
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Krispy Kremes on Air Asia, Qantas Gets Fourth A380
We don?t know which bit of news is tastier! OK, that was a terrible pun
Malaysian based
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Tiger Airways to Fly into Sydney
Budget airlines Tiger Airways has announced it will begin flying Australia?s busiest route, Sydney to Melbourne
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To locate underground threats, Lockheed scans subterranean gravity signatures
Having had limited success catching America's enemies by "smoking them out of their holes," Lockheed Martin and the DoD are turning to an airborne sensor-based platform to map the subterranean world and
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Video: Virgin's VSS enterprise makes its first crewed test flight
Virgin Galactic just released some nice video of its latest SpaceShipTwo (aka VSS Enterprise) test flight, the first with the spacecraft's two-pilot flight crew aboard.
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U.S. Air Force wants drones that can sense other airplanes' intent
Future airplane flocks would require a trained corps of pilots who intimately know their aircraft and their partners' flying habits. Drone flocks would be a different task, however. Drones are not as smart as pilots, and cannot tell what other aircraft will do. But the military would like to
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Sikorsky X2 prototype breaks rotorcraft speed record with 415 kph flight
We were quite impressed with the Sikorsky X2 prototype when we featured it last year as a Best of What's New pick, but it's looking even better these days. The super-fast, dual-rotor helicopter is still in the prototype stage, but has already broken the
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Flight attendant meltdown recreated by Hong Kong TV station
Who needs cover shots and voiceover when you can digitally re-create the moment? That's what staff at a Hong Kong TV station must have thought when they heard about the US flight attendant who made a hasty exit from his aircraft following an incident with a passenger this week.
Steven Slater,
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Google is Flying a Quadcopter Surveillance Robot, Says Drone Maker
There's no question that the future of warfare, espionage, and clandestine operations is moving rapidly toward reliance on drone aircraft. But should citizens grow restless when this technology moves into the private sector? A German drone maker claims Google is
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Denmark's Non-Profit Rocket is Ready to Launch Next Week
The world's first volunteer-built, not-for-profit passenger rocket funded purely by donations and sponsorships is preparing for launch next week, ticking off a milestone in human spaceflight history. The Danish
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Boeing Delays Dreamliner Again
It's been eight months since Boeing's 787 Dreamliner first took to the skies. Back then, Japan's ANA was expecting to have their first 787 roll into the hanger by the close of 2010. Now, thanks to a delay in production of the plane's Rolls-Royce engines,
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Video: Yale's Grab Lab Demonstrates an Unmanned Helicopter With a Grabbing Hand
Researchers at Yale's Grab Lab aren't about to let the nuances of rotary-wing flight restrict what unmanned aerial vehicles can do. A team there has developed a hand-like modular grasping and manipulation platform that can be fitted to the bellies of UAVs to provide them
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Video: Electric Version of Tiniest Manned Plane Ever Takes to the Skies
An ultralight kit plane designed in the 1970s has become the first four-engined electric plane to take to the skies. Weighing in around 175 kilograms -- including the pilot -- the
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