News Senate Wants To Increase Airport Rape Fees For T.S.A. Budget Shortfall
05-23-2012
•
http://govtslaves.info, Erik Wasson
The 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.
•
•
News EU appeals to China to join global emissions talks
05-23-2012
•
http://www.businessweek.com, By JOE McDONALD
A European envoy held out a possible compromise in a dispute with China over emissions charges on airlines.
•
•
News SpaceX In Orbit – Successful Launch of Falcon 9 Rocket
05-22-2012
•
http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
The second time’s the charm for SpaceX.
•
•
News May 21, 1927: Lucky Lindy Flies His Way Into the Celebrity Ranks
05-21-2012
•
http://www.wired.com, By Tony Long
1927: Charles Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget airfield outside of Paris, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight and becoming an instant international celebrity.
•
•
News Why Shutting Airports Is Not the Best Way to Halt a Global Flu Pandemic
05-19-2012
•
http://www.technologyreview.com, kfc
In 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.
•
•
News Police nab airline pilot with loaded gun in luggage
05-18-2012
•
Reuters
An 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
•
•
News The Rocket Factory: SpaceX Builds Them From Top to Bottom
05-18-2012
•
http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
The commercial space race is about to begin.
•
•
News Spy drone could have almost brought down a plane in Colorado
05-18-2012
•
http://rt.com
An 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.
•
•
News Henry Kissinger gets groped by TSA agents in New York
05-16-2012
•
http://rt.com
Winning 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.
1
•
•
•
News Engineer Details Plans to Build a Real, Burj-Dubai-Sized Starship Enterprise in 20 Years
05-15-2012
•
http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
The 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.
•
•
News 'More Invasive Searches' at Airports, I Kid You Not
05-14-2012
•
Lew Rockwell blog
Ah, 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
1
•
•
•
News TSA Toddler Terror: Family Marched Off Plane; 18-Month-Old On No Fly List
05-11-2012
•
http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
TSA 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.
•
•
News JetBlue: 'Computer glitch' led to baby's removal from flight
05-11-2012
•
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
•
•
News Shuttle Rocket Booster Maker to Launch Private Space Taxi by 2015
05-10-2012
•
http://www.space.com, by Denise Chow
The 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.
•
•
News ‘No sign of survivors’ at Sukhoi SuperJet-100 wreck site
05-10-2012
•
http://rt.com
Rescuers 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.
•
•
News Russia’s Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Jakarta, hijack not ruled out
05-09-2012
•
http://rt.com
Russia’s latest civil airliner carrying 44 passengers has disappeared from the radars during a demonstrative flight in the Indonesian capital.
•
•
News After Americans become outraged with TSA, CIA announces airplane bombing thwarted
05-09-2012
•
http://rt.com
American officials say they uncovered an al-Qaeda-made bomb that could have successfully passed through TSA’s security checkpoints
•
•
Headlines: After Americans become outraged with TSA, CIA announces airplane bombing thwarted -- Russia’s Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Jakarta, hijack not ruled out -- ‘No sign of survivors’ at Sukhoi SuperJet-100 wreck site -- Shuttle Rocket Booster Maker to Launch Private Space Taxi by 2015 -- JetBlue: 'Computer glitch' led to baby's removal from flight -- TSA Toddler Terror: Family Marched Off Plane; 18-Month-Old On No Fly List -- 'More Invasive Searches' at Airports, I Kid You Not -- Engineer Details Plans to Build a Real, Burj-Dubai-Sized Starship Enterprise in 20 Years -- Henry Kissinger gets groped by TSA agents in New York -- Spy drone could have almost brought down a plane in Colorado -- The Rocket Factory: SpaceX Builds Them From Top to Bottom -- Police nab airline pilot with loaded gun in luggage -- Why Shutting Airports Is Not the Best Way to Halt a Global Flu Pandemic -- May 21, 1927: Lucky Lindy Flies His Way Into the Celebrity Ranks -- SpaceX In Orbit – Successful Launch of Falcon 9 Rocket -- EU appeals to China to join global emissions talks -- Senate Wants To Increase Airport Rape Fees For T.S.A. Budget Shortfall --