Flying Planes With An iPhone
I guess all that time spent playing Cube Runner could prove useful after all. An associate professor of aeronautics and her students at MIT have developed a system for controlling small unmanned aerial...
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iPhone Suddenly Smokes, Glows Devilishly Red On Australian Flight
After all these years of people telling us that planes are going to start dropping from the sky like dead birds if we don’t turn off our smartphones during takeoff, it looks like the real threat might...
View ArticlePenguins Take Flight
Delta Flight 486 from Atlanta to New York on March 8th had two very special guests flying in First Class. Pete and Penny, penguins from Sea World, surprised their fellow passengers as they waddled up...
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Cause For Australian iPhone Explosion Revealed
All sorts of strange things can happen when a plane takes off. Maybe it’s happened to you: an ink pen bursts from the pressure changes and gets ink all over your stuff; an empty water bottle expands on...
View ArticleHP ElitePad Chosen to Fly on Emirates Airlines
HP and Emirates Airlines announced today that HP’s new Windows 8 tablet, the ElitePad 900, has been chosed at the “primary interface” for the airline’s flight crews. As part of Emirates’ new...
View ArticlePython On Plane Wing Is Your WTF Story Of The Day [Video]
I promise not to make any stupid “Snakes on a Plane” jokes. A Python was spotted on the wing of a Quantas Airways plane during a two-hour flight from Cairns, Australia to Papua New Guinea. According to...
View ArticleMaine B-52 Crash Remembered by Survivor, Rescuer
On January 24, 1963, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber training flight carrying a crew of nine crashed into Elephant Mountain in Maine. There were only two survivors of the crash, the pilot, Lt. Col. Dan...
View ArticleTeri Hatcher Wants A “Desperate Housewives” Movie
Teri Hatcher is well aware that there have been rumors of a “Desperate Housewives” movie for a while now, and the actress says she’s totally down for it. “I love the fans of the show so much, and they...
View ArticleBoeing 747 May Get 86′d in the Years to Come
The Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet has been hailed as a double-decker revolution in air travel that shrank the globe by the Associated Press, yet even Arsenio Hall seems able to offer one as a (seemingly...
View ArticleSkydiver Planes Collide; Everyone Jumps to Safety
It was supposed to be an exciting weekend until everything went terrifyingly wrong in a split second for two planes, each full of excited skydivers. CNN reports that those two planes endured a mid-air...
View Article‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Remembered 5 Years On
USAirways Flight 1549 landed into the Hudson River five years ago after being struck by birds. Images of passengers exiting the plane are still reminiscent today. Fortunately, the quick-thinking...
View ArticleAmelia Earhart Situation For Flight 370
International attention focusing on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has led to collective concern that the most recent occurrence could be another unsolved global mystery, similar to...
View ArticleNo-Fly List Declared Unconstitutional By Federal Judge
It’s nearly thirteen years since the 9/11 attacks and the no-fly list is now considered a way of life. Or at least it was, until a federal judge’s recent ruling. After 13 people sued the government...
View ArticleGrounded F-35 Fleet Cleared to Fly
After an engine fire in June grounded the entire U.S. military fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets, Navy and Air Force officials have approved a limited flight clearance to run engine...
View ArticleSelfies Contributed to Fatal Plane Crash, Says NTSB
In May of last year, two men were killed when their Cessna 150 crashed in a field outside Denver, Colorado. Now, the National Transportation Safety Board has issued its official report – and the agency...
View ArticleFlying Planes With An iPhone
I guess all that time spent playing Cube Runner could prove useful after all. An associate professor of aeronautics and her students at MIT have developed a system for controlling small unmanned aerial...
View ArticleClik here to view.
iPhone Suddenly Smokes, Glows Devilishly Red On Australian Flight
After all these years of people telling us that planes are going to start dropping from the sky like dead birds if we don’t turn off our smartphones during takeoff, it looks like the real threat might...
View ArticlePenguins Take Flight
Delta Flight 486 from Atlanta to New York on March 8th had two very special guests flying in First Class. Pete and Penny, penguins from Sea World, surprised their fellow passengers as they waddled up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cause For Australian iPhone Explosion Revealed
All sorts of strange things can happen when a plane takes off. Maybe it’s happened to you: an ink pen bursts from the pressure changes and gets ink all over your stuff; an empty water bottle expands on...
View ArticleHP ElitePad Chosen to Fly on Emirates Airlines
HP and Emirates Airlines announced today that HP’s new Windows 8 tablet, the ElitePad 900, has been chosed at the “primary interface” for the airline’s flight crews. As part of Emirates’ new...
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