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Family Kicked Off Plane for Too Many Kids – Tried to Fit Six People in Three Seats

The holiday travel plans for a Charlotte family were derailed by U.S. Airways employees who objected to their attempt to fit six people in three seats on a crowded plane to Chicago right before Christmas.

Fake astronauts return to real Earth after fake trip to fake Mars

520 days after being locked inside a fake spaceship in a Moscow car park, a six-man team of volunteer astronauts is about to emerge back on planet Earth. The year and a half of isolation, dubbed Mars500 and run by the European Space Agency (ESA), was designed to see how real s …

Skydiving Sex? Bakersfield Couple Starts A New Mile High Club

The Mile High Club has just been one-upped.

Airline Pilots Allowed to Dodge Security Screening

  Federal authorities are tacitly acknowledging that, despite their best efforts, it’s impossible to keep domestic aircraft safe from all evildoers.

Bin Laden Raid May Have Exposed US Stealth Helicopter | AVIATION WEEK

A previously undisclosed, classified stealth helicopter apparently was part of the U.S. task force that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1. The exact type of helicopter is unknown but it appears to be a highly modified version of an H-60 Blackhawk.

Investigators find black box from unsolved Air France crash | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 01.05.2011

Remember the Air France flight that mysteriously disappeared after departing Brazil in 2009?

NASA Considers Shooting Space Junk With Lasers

The growing cloud of space junk surrounding the Earth is a hazard to spaceflight, and will only get worse as large pieces of debris collide and fragment.

Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest

Aaron Tobey claims in a civil rights lawsuit (.pdf) that in December he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he began removing his clothing to display on his chest a magic-marker pro …

A Pilot's Guide: Paphos, Cyprus

Cyprus, the birthplace of Greek Goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite, is the third largest island in the Mediterranean. Rich in history, the earliest known human activity on the island dates back to around the 10th millennium BC.

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Airplane-Leasing Orders Take Off

As the aerospace industry gathers Monday for its biggest annual trade show, jet makers are striking an upbeat tone amid global economic uncertainty.

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