<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Part of wing breaks off, cracks window in flight : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/travel/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>Part of wing breaks off, cracks window in flight : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/travel/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Part of wing breaks off, cracks window in flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A chunk of a US Airways wing separated during a flight from Orlando to Philadelphia and cracked a passenger's window.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55420/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55420/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Frozen boy survives flight on plane wing]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/36714/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/36714/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight or Flight?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did you ever wonder about your own &quot;fight or flight&quot; response?  Here's is a young man discovering that his response is most definitely &quot;fight.&quot;  How would your primitive brain respond?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22165/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22165/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The West Wing, Obama, and Plagiarism]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;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.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/52489/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/52489/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Jet man ready for cross-Channel flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Swiss daredevil's bid to cross the English Channel propelled by a jet-powered wing strapped to his back moved a step closer with a successful 36km test flight over Switzerland.(with video of flight over Alps)]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/73581/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/73581/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Passengers fume as sleepy crew delays flight ]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16848/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16848/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>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 airports about 3000m above sea level and two airports below sea level), bonus airports and various rules such as if a plane crashes and which planes could be used in the race.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11143/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11143/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Curry blows up on BA flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21091/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21091/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[On a Wing and a Prayer: Amazing Story of The Gimli Glider]]></title><description><![CDATA[On 23 July 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 ran completely out of fuel at 41,000 feet, about halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton (due to a misunderstanding of the metric system). The amazing story of how the powerless plane made a successful emergency landing at an abandoned airbase in Gimli, and the Captain with balls of steel.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/70717/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/70717/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Wing Morphing Of The Swift Could Inspire New Aircraft Designs]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/18437/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/18437/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Flight of the Conchords Videos:Starting with&quot;&quot;Business Time&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flight of the Conchords. (has anybody got HBO? I record them all, call)]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25624/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25624/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Flight Attendant Embellishes ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A flight attendant obviously wanted to liven things up a bit for the crew and passengers.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42239/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42239/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Earth Flight Simulator]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34017/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34017/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Accused Of Fondling Girl On Flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48419/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48419/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Lapse Flight Patterns Over North America Taken from Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[This time lapse image shows air traffic flight patterns over N. America from space.<br/><br/>(I'm not sure of its authenticity since the popular &quot;power grid&quot; photo turned out to be a fake).]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27014/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27014/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazing Paper Airplane Flight Over NYC]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45820/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45820/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay-themed flight to feature drag queens, flight-crew cabaret]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before that full flight, the crew put on pink feather boas and sang for its couple hundreds passengers, she said. &quot;Even the pilot was wearing fairy wings and got into it,&quot; Williams said.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36075/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36075/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Virgin Atlantic Space Flight Demo]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>See also: <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/1448/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/science/l/1448/1/</a></div> <br/>(BBC news coverage posted by mrnelson)]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/30825/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/30825/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Jet wing flight over the English Channel a success!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I would LOVE to do this, if I wasn't so financially challenged... or so chicken.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/77793/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/77793/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Swing Wing 1960s commercial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Great commercial for an awful toy from the 1960s called the Swing Wing. It's a beanie with a pendulum.<br/><br/>(props to Boing Boing)]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/30458/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/30458/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses Pay For Troops' Flight Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45110/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45110/1/</guid><category>travel</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>