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Cephalon Comes Out with Nuvigil, the First Drug for Jet Lag

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

Safety Concerns over In-Flight Entertainment Systems

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

Customers’ Outrage over Photo of Model Bar Refaeli on Plane

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

iPhone User the First to Tweet Live from a Plane Crash Scene

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

Boeing Crafts to Stay in the Air for a Month

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

A Cheaper Version of Zero-G Flights

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

Bone Remains Are Fossett's

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

The Britney Disease Leaves No Survivors

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

How to Fly Without Engines

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

Boeing Drops Orion for Poseidon!

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

Google Pays $1.3 Million for a NASA Airport

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

Mobile Wing Plane Flies Like a Bird

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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