Planes

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• Fighting the Taliban from half a world away (Congressman "in on a few kills")

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  These drones are no bees, but they can sting, and one of their operators is a local congressman who says they are integral to the war effort in Afghanistan and Iraq. U.S. Rep. Chris Carney, also known as Navy Reserve Cmdr. Chris Carney, is one of the militarys remote operators of unmanned Predator, Reaper and Global ...
  48 minutes ago

• Airbus and Boeing pin hopes on Middle East airlines

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 541
  DUBAI—Middle East airlines will lead the global aviation industry out of its worst downturn in years, the worlds top plane makers said Monday on the second day of a Dubai Airshow that produced few read more
  3 hours ago

• Picture of the day

  
  The World's Best Ever:design, fashion, art, music, photography, lifestyle, — Authority: 547
  dmitryjakovlev [IMG: http://www.theworldsbestever.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/picture-of-the-day1.jpg]
  4 hours ago

• John Hughes Top Ten Films ~ From ‘Sixteen Candles’ to ‘Vacation’

  
  MovieSet Behind the Scenes blog — Authority: 135
  Part of MovieSet’s Remembering John Hughes special series Top Ten John Hughes Film Everyone loves at least one John Hughes movie! It’s a fact I looked it up. With John Hughes you can pretty much re-arrange his classic films in any order because fans celebrate his entire catalog. I happen to love ...
  5 hours ago

• Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin About Hero Plane! [Feuds]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  Unflappable (except by geese!) hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger is not sitting idly by while fancy writer William Langewiesche (pron. "Lain-guh-wees-chay-guevara") offers up his trashy "scientific theories" about Sullys famous crashed plane. Everyone listen, Sully is saying something confrontationa l! In an ...
  12 hours ago

• airbattle

  
  Fyrebug Make Your Own Game! — Authority: 175
  Down the enemy plane
  15 hours ago

• Ethiopian Airlines tired of waiting for Dreamliner, orders jets from Airbus

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 541
  Airbus SAS won an order from Ethiopian Airlines for 12 of its upcoming A350 aircraft in a deal valued at about $2.8 billion at list price, bringing its total orders for the plane to 505. read more
  1 day ago

• Dirt bike backflipping over hovering helicopter

  
  Cave Views — Authority: 442
  Travis Pastrana (top) of the US performs an FMX backflip on his dirt bike over a hovering 43-foot (13-metre) helicopter (below) in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Pastrana has performed other stunts around the world, including jumping out of a plane with no parachute and jumping off his motorbike into the Grand ...
  1 day ago

• Don’t fly high: 7 reasons to lose the booze

  
  elliott.org — Authority: 583
  Don’t drink and fly.Words to live by, not just if you’re a pilot, but if you’re a passenger.Sandra Langer explains why: On a recent trip from Amsterdam to New York, she watched a good number of her fellow passengers get hammered. “Red-faced men blocked the aisles, puked in the bathroom and groped...
  1 day ago

• Osprey’s in Afghanistan

  
  Bring the heat, Bring the Stupid — Authority: 461
  Well. It looks like the first squadron deployment of MV-22B Ospreys to Afghanistan has begun.I’m ambivalent about the whole Osprey program. I’m willing to stipulate that it is a very impressive aircraft. But is it the right aircraft for the Marines? What say you?H/T: Theo Spark  Posted in Afghanistan, ARMY ...
  2 days ago

• Thanksgiving Travel Tips

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 562
  Do your plan on traveling this Thanksgiving? Think you’re prepared? Well here are a few tips and hints, for the “just in case” of traveling on this holiday. First up, a few tips if you are traveling by car. #1. Fill up the night before, and save money. Even with gas prices dropping just in time for holiday ...
  2 days ago

• The Convenience of a Private Jet

  
  Becoming Who You Want To Be — Authority: 151
  Are you looking for an amazing way to travel on your next vacation? Are you going somewhere with your family or even a weekend away with the girls? Even if its just a small business trip for a meeting, here is a better way to travel: Private Jets! Post Excerpt from: BecomingWhoYouWantToBe . Click "read article" to ...
  2 days ago

• Ferry going down off coast of Japan

  
  Cave Views — Authority: 442
  Above a photographer documents the sinking of the commercial ferry Ariake off the coast of Kumano, Japan. Passengers and crew were rescued by the coast guard. Below shows the ferry from another angle. Vehicles, containers and other items aboard the ferry were believed to have been toppled by rough waves hitting it ...
  3 days ago

• Make Your Own Sky King

  
  Best Celebrity Scoop — Authority: 149
  We’ve all made a paper airplane, usually we have two choices. The long jet, or the short stunt plane. Neither flies all that great. What if you could combine the two for a snub nosed paper airplane that actually flies GREAT! That’s just what Takuo Toda of Japan did in 2009. His invention was recognized by ...
  3 days ago

• Helicopter Protection Enters New Era

  
  Defense Tech — Authority: 590
  This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. The Defense Department is kicking off a program to design, build and demonstrate prototypes of the Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System (JATAS) to protect U.S. Navy and Marine Corps helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft from dumb and smart ...
  3 days ago

• How to Fix Your Golf Swing

  
  Golf Tips — Authority: 128
  Iit’s your hamstrings and your low back, most likely. PGA pro, Golf Magazine type golf swing., we are going to explore the connection between your hammies, your low back Let’s start with your hamstrings. The function of the hamstrings in your body is pretty complex. First off, your hamstrings help stabilize your ...
  3 days ago

• Friday Musical Interlude - November 13, 2009

  
  Nonsensible Shoes — Authority: 431
  I remember when the song Paper Planes by M.I.A. came out last year, thinking that song sounds so familiar. Of course that always sets off an alarm bell for me as far as an artist sampling another artist. Whether legally sampled or not (and Im sure it was legal), it just seems less than a full effort nowadays.The ...
  3 days ago

• Raising the gas tax

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  This is long overdue. Members of the Texas Senate’s Transportation Committee said Tuesday that an increase in the 20-cents-per-gallon state fuel tax may be necessary to overcome a drastic shortage of money for new roads. “We are in the critical position in this state where we are growing and will need more ...
  3 days ago

• West U bans texting while driving

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  The West University Place City Council voted on Monday night to ban texting while driving . Drivers who text behind the wheel in within the city’s limits have one week to stop before the council votes unanimously again to ban the practice. [...] The ban also applies to Web browsing and accessing sites like ...
  3 days ago

• Passenger numbers nosedive at Glasgow Prestwick Airport

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 559
  By Shaun Milne PASSENGER numbers have nose-dived at one of Scotland’s best known low-cost airports. Glasgow Prestwick Airport said the number of people travelling through the Ayrshire hub are down 28 per cent year on year. The plunge – to 152,000 passengers – was dismissed as being “in line with recent ...
  3 days ago

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