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Hollywood actress Brooke Shields and comedian James Belushi were involved in a plane crash at the end of last week, it has just emerged. The stars were flying together to attend a private function at the Hearst Castle estate. They landed safely, but the pilot forgot to secure the brakes, which made the plane slide in... |
7 October 2009
05:10 GMT |
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The Black Eyed Peas are putting themselves up for an auction that will benefit the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Australia. The bid will also offer one fan the chance to fly with the bandmembers, listen to BEP music and, at the same time, watch them set two world records, as the eBay listing informs... |
28 September 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Virgin America Airlines has joined forces with CW for a brand-new reality show that will go into production soon, with a premiere date set tentatively for 2010. The new televised series will take viewers many miles up and then to various exotic locations as they “tag along” female flight attendants, learn... |
25 September 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Pamela Anderson has been part of more than one PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) campaign, the former “Baywatch” bombshell often lending her voice, face and body to the organization for a good cause. This time, with the Cruelty Doesn’t Fly campaign, things aren’t any different... |
10 September 2009
08:43 GMT |
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Luggage mishaps are known to happen on airplanes, be it at the airport, or because of the way the packages are stored and transported. Either way, the flight company eventually owns up to them and finds some form of compensation for the respective passenger. This did not happen to Canadian singer Dave Carroll, who ha... |
24 July 2009
15:31 GMT |
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The UK is the hardest hit territory by the swine flu epidemics, which has made it clear to two of the biggest airlines that steps must be taken to prevent people with the virus from traveling to other parts of the world, or for those to enter the country. Thus, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have announced that ... |
21 July 2009
15:31 GMT |
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LL Cool J might not be the person you’d expect to be quarantined with for three whole hours but, for the passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to St. Louis, Missouri, it was a dream come true. The rapper was en route to see a ball game when the pilot was forced to do an emergency landing in Kansas City, after... |
16 July 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Whenever a celebrity gets into some sort of trouble on a plane, news of it is bound to transpire in the media. Just think the Ralph Fiennes scandal of a couple of years back or the most recent incident involving Joel Madden, who was reportedly asked to cover up his many tattoos before embarking. Now, it’s Sharo... |
8 July 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Several US and European airline companies have gone on board what is labeled the “fat discrimination” bandwagon, with United Airlines being the latest to adopt the so-called fat tax, which has overweight and obese passengers pay for two tickets instead of just one. According to several reports, the tax is... |
11 May 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Paramount Digital Entertainment has announced the release of Top Gun, a new game for iPhone and iPod touch. Immediately available for download from the iTunes App Store, Top Gun places players at the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, where instructors Maverick and Iceman will help them compete to become the ... |
8 May 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden was forced to cover up the many tattoos on his arms before boarding a plane in London the other day. Within hours, word of this got out in the media, and British Airways, the company with which Madden flew, issued a statement saying that the employee to enforce such a regulation woul... |
28 April 2009
08:24 GMT |
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Frequent travelers know that one of the biggest annoyances they have to face each time they land is jet lag. Until not long ago, it was believed that jet lag was nothing more than just an upsetting occurrence that no one could do anything about, other than bear with it until it went away. Since research has shown tha... |
7 April 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Having a comfortable flight can often depend on such an apparently insignificant thing as being offered the option of choosing between tens of movies, shows or music tracks. Enter in-flight entertainment systems, which offer customers a wide range of choices. They also expose the same customers to the danger of losin... |
23 March 2009
08:11 GMT |
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When one of the highest paid models of the moment, stunner Bar Refaeli, was chosen as the “IT girl” for the Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated, fans were ecstatic. However, when Sports Illustrated teamed up with Southwest Airlines and plastered Bar’s body on a plane, customers of the carrier wer... |
5 March 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Denver resident Mike Wilson was a passenger on Continental Airline’s flight 737 in route to Houston, Texas, Saturday evening. At one point, the plane skidded off the runway crashing into a ravine and immediately catching fire. Wilson escaped the flames and used his iPhone to post details and pictures as he was ... |
23 December 2008
04:40 GMT |
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Perhaps the most famous aerospace corporation, Boeing, has come up with a new craft supposed to be able to stay aloft, depending on the altitude, from about ten days to nearly a whole month. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) will be powered by a patented hydrogen fuel system and will have a wide range of applications... |
27 November 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Since 1973, special airplanes dubbed “Vomit comets” (easy to figure out why) or, more nicely and officially, “Weightless wonders” help science by providing zero gravitation environments identical to those inside spacecraft. This is achieved via a special flight cycle comprised of abrupt 45°... |
12 November 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Yesterday, authorities from Madera disclosed a statement associating the two bone remains found earlier with the person of James Stephen Fossett. They were discovered last week, about half a mile (800 meters) from the place his plane crashed 14 months ago, in Sierra Nevada, California. A hiker who walked off the reg... |
4 November 2008
10:40 GMT |
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It's Britney mania taken to a whole new level! Have a look at this nice compilation put together by one of my favorite gossip sites out there, and you'll see what I mean. If media attention was what Britney was after, then she sure got what she asked for - and then some. Saying that she is the talk of the d... |
10 January 2008
06:07 GMT |
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When technology advances made humans to attempt flying during the 19th century, motorized flight proved impossible as the engines of those times were too heavy. The German engineer Otto Lilienthal tackled the issue differently: he first decided to perfect the art of gliding through air, achieving the required ascenda... |
5 January 2008
05:48 GMT |
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New stuff under the sun for Boeing! Gizmag reports that the giant company will have five P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine test planes finalized by March 2009, with the actual production process expected to begin starting in 2013.The plane is said to be no less than a hundred and twenty nine feet long aircraft with a 117 ... |
10 November 2007
08:20 GMT |
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two billionaires who own the super giant Google, agreed to pay $1.3 million to NASA in order to allow them to land on an airport located near the company's headquarters. It seems like the two parts first planned to keep the agreement in secret but, after the Internet users spotted... |
13 September 2007
06:57 GMT |
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? Nope, it's a bird-plane!What is a bird-plane, you say? It's a futuristic plane concept created by a small research team, that will fly just like a bird. It will arch its broad wings up and then flap them down in one continuous, fluid motion. No turbines or prop... |
21 April 2007
03:44 GMT |
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