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A chunk of a US Airways wing separated during a flight from Orlando to Philadelphia and cracked a passenger's window. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago tags flight plane wing window cracked in flight flying us airways 757 ahhhhh |
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At the end of the 1,300km journey, rescuers at Vnukova airport were initially unable to take off his coat and shoes because his arms and legs were so badly frozen. Crazy kid. picked by misswinkle 10 months ago 4 comments edit related share weird |
"Obama did not plagiarize his whole campaign from Jimmy Smits fictional campaign on The West Wing. No, no, The West Wing plagiarized Obama's campaign from the future." picked by gammerus 4 months ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
Did you ever wonder about your own "fight or flight" response? Here's is a young man discovering that his response is most definitely "fight." How would your primitive brain respond? picked by ogri2003 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share webvideo |
Passengers on a British Airways flight from New Delhi to London faced a 13-hour delay as the pilot felt he was too sleepy after a noisy night in a New Delhi hotel. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share travel |
Flight Simulator geeks are flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and bonuses. All teams were given the rules 24 hours in advance of the start of the race (10a EST on Friday). The rules include route requirements (such as two a... read full post picked by dfelteau 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share games |
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British Airways has banned cabin crew from microwaving their own food after a curry exploded at 35,000 ft (10,668 metres), causing around $US40,000 ($48,790) of damage to an aircraft. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 5 comments edit related share travel |
A swift adapts the shape of its wings to the immediate task at hand: folding them back to chase insects, or stretching them out to sleep in flight. Ten Dutch and Swedish scientists, based in Wageningen, Groningen, Delft, Leiden, and Lund, have shown how 'wing morphing' makes swifts such versatile flyers. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
Flight of the Conchords. (has anybody got HBO? I record them all, call) picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share humor |
A flight attendant obviously wanted to liven things up a bit for the crew and passengers. picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago 7 comments edit related share plime.com |
Google appear to have added a hidden feature to the latest version of Google Earth... A flight simulator! There are two aircraft to choose from in this version... The F16 and the SR22. picked by bunmaster 10 months ago 0 comments edit related share internet |
Great commercial for an awful toy from the 1960s called the Swing Wing. It's a beanie with a pendulum. 1 comments edit related share weird(props to Boing Boing) picked by Bornbad 11 months ago |
This time lapse image shows air traffic flight patterns over N. America from space. 5 comments edit related share photography(I'm not sure of its authenticity since the popular "power grid" photo turned out to be a fake). picked by ogri2003 12 months ago |
A Pearl Harbor-based sailor was arrested on suspicion of molesting a 13-year-old girl on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Hawaii to Arizona. picked by muppet 6 months ago 2 comments edit related share crime |
This guy launches a paper airplane off the 30th floor of a building in the financial district of New York City. The flight it goes on without crashing is pretty amazing. picked by misswinkle 6 months ago 8 comments edit related share webvideo |
Before that full flight, the crew put on pink feather boas and sang for its couple hundreds passengers, she said. "Even the pilot was wearing fairy wings and got into it," Williams said. picked by misswinkle 10 months ago 3 comments edit related share business |
Amazing flight demo! I hope I live long enough to do something like this. Richard Branson (Virgin) is just the guy to do it too. 0 comments edit related share technologySee also: (BBC news coverage posted by mrnelson) picked by ogri2003 11 months ago |
Spc. Heather Davey put a $587 plane ticket on her credit card so she could go home for the holidays, figuring she would worry later about how to pay for it. The 34-year-old mother of two has one less worry now. picked by mandolinorange 7 months ago 2 comments edit related share g.r.i.n. |
Goggles lets you be the pilot and fly a plane over the Google Maps of various cities. The plane can also shoot although nothing is actually destroyed. picked by arrch8 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share games |
A 14-year-old boy was forced to stand for nearly two hours on a Ryanair flight from Italy to Britain recently despite having a cast on one of his legs. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next to male passengers they didn't know. picked by super 12 months ago 1 comments edit related share world |