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Transportation: Air Travel
How Southwest Keeps Making Money In A Brutal Airline Industry
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Danielle SchlangerIt seems as though the airline industry is in a perpetual state of crisis.
TSA Expands Presence at Foreign Airports
• New York TimesAn ocean away from the United States, travelers flying out of the international airport here on the west coast of Ireland are confronting one of the newest lines of defense in the war on terrorism: the United States border.
Stranded American student 'sneaks' home, walks across U.S. border
• KSL News Radio Salt LakeSan Diego State graduate Kavon Iraniha, 27, spent the past year studying international law in Costa Rica. He was not allowed to board a flight home to San Diego this past Tuesday after being told he was on the U.S. government's "No Fly List."
TSA Continues to Forbid Recording of Checkpoints as Congresswoman Publishes Scathing Report
• Photography Is Not a CrimeIn clear contradiction of its own policy, the Transportation Security Administration continues to forbid travelers from using cameras at checkpoints. Meanwhile, a U.S. Congresswoman published a scathing report on how the agency responsible for scr
Watch This Wingsuit Flyer Set A New World Record By Jumping Off A 4 Mile High Himalayan Mountain
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Kim BhasinRussian basejumping superstar Valery Rozov has set a new world record by jumping off the top of Shivling, a 21,000-foot tall mountain in the Indian Himalayas, reports The Telegraph.
All 153 on board plane that crashed in Nigeria confirmed dead
• http://www.rt.comA passenger plane has crashed into a two-story building in a densely-populated neighborhood of Lagos, Nigeria.
Amelia Earhart: New evidence tells of her last days on a Pacific atoll (+video)
• Christian Science MonitorNew information gives a clearer picture of what happened 75 years ago to Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan, where they came down and how they likely survived – for a while, at least – as castaways on a remote island.
Would You Ride This Pencil-Shaped Capsule To Space?
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleThe amateur rocketeers at Copenhagen Suborbitals are getting closer and closer to orbit, testing a new bi-liquid fuel combination for a hand-built, donation-funded, non-profit rocket.
Priest Removed Due To Sex Abuse Allegations Now Works For TSA
• CBS NewsThe CBS 3 I-Team has learned that a Catholic priest who was removed from the ministry over sex abuse allegations now holds a sensitive security post at Philadelphia International Airport.
A 40 Mpg Personal Plane Attracts Crowd of Investors
• Bloomberg TVSynergy, a 40 Mpg personal airplane project, is attracting thousands of dollars in investment on the popular crowd-funding website, Kickstarter. Approximately half-way to its stated target investment goal of $65,000, the project's developer claims th
Senate Wants To Increase Airport Rape Fees For T.S.A. Budget Shortfall
• http://govtslaves.info, Erik WassonThe Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday moved forward with legislation to increase airline passenger security fees, beating back a GOP attempt to keep them at current levels.
EU appeals to China to join global emissions talks
• http://www.businessweek.com, By JOE McDONALDA European envoy held out a possible compromise in a dispute with China over emissions charges on airlines.
SpaceX In Orbit – Successful Launch of Falcon 9 Rocket
• http://www.wired.com, By Jason PaurThe second time’s the charm for SpaceX.
May 21, 1927: Lucky Lindy Flies His Way Into the Celebrity Ranks
• http://www.wired.com, By Tony Long1927: Charles Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget airfield outside of Paris, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight and becoming an instant international celebrity.
Why Shutting Airports Is Not the Best Way to Halt a Global Flu Pandemic
• http://www.technologyreview.com, kfcIn a deadly flu outbreak, shutting airports should reduce the spread of the disease. But networks scientists have discovered a better approach that's just as effective.
Police nab airline pilot with loaded gun in luggage
• ReutersAn airline pilot was arrested Friday morning at Buffalo Niagara International Airport after security screeners discovered a loaded revolver in his baggage. Brett Dieter, 52, of Barbersville, Virginia, arrived at the upstate New York airport Friday
The Rocket Factory: SpaceX Builds Them From Top to Bottom
• http://www.wired.com, By Jason PaurThe commercial space race is about to begin.
Spy drone could have almost brought down a plane in Colorado
• http://rt.comAn airline pilot came close to crashing his plane near Denver, Colorado this week after encountering a mysterious object in the sky thought to be an unmanned drone aircraft.
Henry Kissinger gets groped by TSA agents in New York
• http://rt.comWinning a Nobel Prize might earn you a few perks and even a handshake from a world leader or two, but former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger learned the hard way this week that, no matter who you are, you're never excused from a TSA pat-down.
Engineer Details Plans to Build a Real, Burj-Dubai-Sized Starship Enterprise in 20 Years
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleThe year 2245 is just too distant — we should build and commission a real USS Enterprise right now, cracking the champagne across her hull within 20 years, according to an enterprising engineer.
'More Invasive Searches' at Airports, I Kid You Not
• Lew Rockwell blogAh, but there’s a message for us in Di’s prattle: “Consequently the flying public is going to have to tolerate more invasive searches, she said.” More invasive? Really, Di? Just how much more invasive can they be? “‘The American public has not been t
TSA Toddler Terror: Family Marched Off Plane; 18-Month-Old On No Fly List
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve WatsonTSA agents at Fort Lauderdale Airport ordered a family to get off a plane they had already boarded, saying that their eighteen-month-old child was on a no fly list as a terror suspect.
JetBlue: 'Computer glitch' led to baby's removal from flight
• CNN (video)JetBlue Airways said "a computer glitch" as the reason behind the removal of an 18-month-old girl from a flight leaving Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday night. The toddler and her parents were asked to get off the plane after they had just boarded the flig
Shuttle Rocket Booster Maker to Launch Private Space Taxi by 2015
• http://www.space.com, by Denise ChowThe aerospace company that built the solid rocket boosters for NASA's space shuttle fleet announced plans today (May 9) to develop its own private launch system — a spaceship and rocket — to fly astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit.
‘No sign of survivors’ at Sukhoi SuperJet-100 wreck site
• http://rt.comRescuers south of Indonesia’s Jakarta have discovered several bodies at the crash site of a Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100, which dropped off the radar during a demonstration flight on Wednesday.
Russia’s Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Jakarta, hijack not ruled out
• http://rt.comRussia’s latest civil airliner carrying 44 passengers has disappeared from the radars during a demonstrative flight in the Indonesian capital.
After Americans become outraged with TSA, CIA announces airplane bombing thwarted
• http://rt.comAmerican officials say they uncovered an al-Qaeda-made bomb that could have successfully passed through TSA’s security checkpoints
Border checks on drugs and guns 'dropped' at Heathrow
• The GuardianChances of there being a false flag op at the London Olympics now seems certain.
The Jets of the Future
• popsci.com, By Andrew Rosenblum and Rose PastoreHow NASA and aircraft engineers intend to shape the future of air travel
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