Hovercrafts Aren't Real, Right? Wrong!
(urlesque.com) - Do you have an extra $13,000 burning a hole in your hovercraft-less pockets? If so, then this totally real, totally functional hovercraft might be just the thing for you.
What Supersonic Looks Like
(news.yahoo.com) - The breaking of the sound barrier is not just an audible phenomenon. As a new picture from the U.S. military shows, Mach 1 can be quite visual.
This widely circulated new photo shows a Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft participating in an exercise in the Gulf of Alaska June 22, 2009 More...
B-2 Blue Angels
(flickr.com) - The Blue Angels found a way to be even more awesome that they already are.
Stealth bomber photographed breaking sound barrier
(telegraph.co.uk) - A stealth bomber is frozen in time as it breaks the sound barrier during a test flight above the Californian desert.
Pet Airways, the Airline for Pets, Aims to Take Off in July
(blogs.wsj.com) - The outfit is charging an introductory rate of $149 — one-way — for any size pet to travel between any of the cities the company will serve: New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. In the future, the average one-way ticket will cost around $250 for an average-sized pet, Binder said.
Texas Woman Breaks Neck, Back In Airplane Turbulence
(abcnews.go.com) - A woman who was paralyzed after disobeying warnings to remain in her seat during a turbulent flight over Texas has suffered the same type of catastrophic injuries as the late Christopher Reeve, according to her doctor.
United gets strict on 'seatmates of size'
(msnbc.msn.com) - Effective today, United Airlines has a new official policy that affects “seatmates of size” and those passengers seated near them.
The airline’s policy — posted on United's Web site — states that if a passenger cannot fit into a single seat, buckle their seatbelt with an additional seatbelt extension, or put More...
Terrafugia's flying car makes maiden voyage | Cutting Edge - CNET News
(news.cnet.com) - Terrafugia describes its Transition vehicle as a "roadable aircraft" and is pitching it in part as giving private pilots an easy travel alternative when bad weather makes flying a bad idea, or simply to avoid having to take a separate car to the airport. Also, in the eyes of the More...
U.S. OKs record $2.1 billion arms sale to India
(news.yahoo.com) - President Barack Obama's administration has cleared a $2.1 billion sale to India of eight Boeing Co P-8I maritime patrol aircraft, the largest U.S. arms transfer to India to date.
Travel Tip - Don't Pretent to be an Air Marchall to board a closed flight
(miamiherald.com) - Carrying a ''Fisher Island Chief of Police'' badge and claiming he was a U.S. air marshal, Mark Rimkufski convinced Miami airline employees to allow him on a flight after the gate had closed, police said.
The ruse landed him in jail, Miami-Dade police said, when he was confronted -- by real air marshals on the plane.
Plane crash in NY - 50 dead
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Intense heat is keeping investigators from the wreckage of an aircraft that crashed in New York state, killing 50 people in the early hours of Friday.
World's first flying car will be hitting the roads (or not) next year
(dailymail.co.uk) - It's been a pipe dream for 30 years but now the world's first fully available flying car is set to hit the roads next year.
