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Researchers have pinpointed the forces generated by the flapping of bat wings, including an odd upside-down wing stroke that seems to help the furry fliers hover languidly
The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," and of Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket. It was the first successful launch from Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport being developed in the southern New Mexico desert.
The chief executive of JetBlue Airways Corp. apologized again Friday for his airline's shoddy performance during a Valentine's Day storm.
Britain's bumblebee population is under threat in a crisis that could wipe out entire species and have a devastating knock-on effect on agriculture, scientists say.
The 15 British military personnel held by Iran will leave Tehran at 0430 GMT on Thursday on a flight to London, airline officials said, ending a standoff that raised international tension and rattled financial markets.
A senior RAF officer asked fighter pilots whether they would consider suicide missions as a last resort to stop terrorists if their weapons had failed or they had run out of ammunition.
Pilots for 9/11 Truth, an international organization of pilots and aviation professionals, petitioned the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) via the Freedom of Information Act to obtain their 2002 report, animations and Flight Data Recorder FDR information. Read their conclusions...
Authorities quarantined an arriving US Airways flight for several hours Friday at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport after a passenger claimed he had smallpox, an airline spokesman said.
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Qantas has sacked the flight attendant at the centre of a mile-high sex scandal involving actor Ralph Fiennes
Qantas has sacked the flight attendant at the centre of a mile-high sex scandal involving actor Ralph Fiennes
New research has cracked the old puzzle of why bees and other insects are so good at flying, paving the way for aircraft just a few centimeters wide to be built.
From the article: "A US ship has located the "black box" flight recorders of the Indonesian plane that went missing on 1 January, the US embassy said. The USNS Mary Sears, which has been helping hunt for the missing Boeing 737, detected a distinctive signal from the boxes on the ocean floor. The Adam Air flight, which went missing halfway through its flight from Java to Sulawesi, had 102 people on board."
Flight attendants often deal with obnoxious passengers who won't listen to instructions by kicking them off the plane. But a Massachusetts couple think AirTran Airways went overboard by treating their crying 3-year-old daughter in much the same way.
Human spaceflight is expensive and, since the end of the Apollo programme in 1972, has yielded little or nothing in the way of science. Robotic missions, by contrast, have visited every planet in the solar system, many moons, several asteroids and even the odd comet. This week plans were unveiled to mitigate the disaster. Scientists from three cont
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Interactive graphic shows path taken by single-engine plane registered to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle that crashed into a building on East 72nd Street, New York City, Oct 11, 2006, killing Mr Lidle and his flight instructor.
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Northwest Airlines, facing a potentially devastating flight attendants' strike on Friday, is living up to its reputation as an unflinching, no-nonsense labor negotiator, experts said.









