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+ - BA to allow passengers to use IFE for entire flight-> 0

Submitted by clarkes1 on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @11:50AM

clarkes1 writes "British Airways is to allow passengers to watch and listen to in-flight entertainment from boarding through to landing, following an assessment of safety considerations."
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Comment: Video of the 727 crash (Score 5, Informative) 281

by clarkes1 on Monday April 30, 2012 @06:41AM (#39843275) Attached to: Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary

A video of the 727 crash can be seen here: http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/video-boeing-727-deliberately-crashed-in-desert-for-tv-371267/

+ - Top Gun 2 is on and will rock the F-35-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02, 2012 @05:39AM

An anonymous reader writes "Maverick is becoming an F-35 test pilot.It's true.Tom Burbage, the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme manager, showed up at a National Aeronautics Association luncheon today and dropped a bombshell of a Hollywood scoop. Sure, there was talk about schedules and budgets, partners and politics, software blocks and carrier hooks. But we'll get to that later."
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+ - VIDEO: Air France A380 hits CRJ while taxiing at J-> 0

Submitted by clarkes1 on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @04:46AM

clarkes1 writes "Extraordinary video images have emerged of an Air France Airbus A380 colliding with a Bombardier CRJ during taxiing at New York JFK."
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+ - 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's Flight-> 0

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PyroMosh

on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @12:18AM

PyroMosh writes "This Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the historic flight of Yuri Gagarin — Vostok 1. Although Colonel Gagarin died in a jet training accident in 1968, his legacy of ushering mankind into a new era lives on.

Yuri's Night celebrations are taking place all over the world tonight. Let's raise a vodka toast to the man who 50 years ago today became the first human in space!"
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+ - Korean Air unveils A380 flying duty-free shop -> 0

Submitted by clarkes1 on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @04:46AM

clarkes1 writes "Korean Air is to become the first airline in the world to offer a flying duty free shop when its first of 10 Airbus A380s enters service on 10 June. No this is not a late April Fools"
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+ - PHOTOS: Inside Russia's next generation airliner-> 0

Submitted by clarkes1 on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @05:35AM

clarkes1 writes "Russia's next generation airliner, the MS-21, created plenty of buzz at the Farnborough air show."
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PHOTOS: Inside Russia's next generation airliner->

by clarkes1 on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @05:34AM

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+ - New way to protect dignity during full body scans-> 0

Submitted by clarkes1 on Monday August 02, 2010 @08:51AM

clarkes1 writes "Travellers protect dignity during full body scanners with sticky rubber pasties, the next must have travel accessory"
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+ - Hubble accuracy surpassed by earthbound telescope-> 0

Submitted by randuev on Sunday August 01, 2010 @12:02PM

randuev writes "High-speed adaptive optics system helped Large Binocular Telescope (on earth) to beat accuracy of Hubble Telescope (space) observations.

"A special sensor detects atmospheric distortions in real time and controls the mirror to adjust its position to compensate, effectively canceling out the blurring. The mirror can make adjustments every one-thousandth of a second, with accuracy to better than ten nanometers (a nanometer is one millionth the size of a millimeter)."

Now, that's what I call real-time. This nifty trick multiplied Strehl ratio (optical quality) of LBT by about 80 times to unprecedented Rayleigh limit. Hope we'll see more space around us in higher resolution on Google Sky."
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+ - First Membrane Controlled by Light Developed 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01, 2010 @11:32AM

An anonymous reader writes "A new membrane developed at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics blocks gas from flowing through it when one color of light is shined on its surface, and permits gas to flow through when another color of light is used. It is the first time that scientists have developed a membrane that can be controlled in this way by light."

+ - BlackBerry Services To Be Halted In UAE-> 0

Submitted by WrongSizeGlass on Sunday August 01, 2010 @07:46AM

WrongSizeGlass writes "Bloomberg is reporting RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger, e-mail and Web browsing services will be suspended in the United Arab Emirates, the Middle East’s business hub, starting October 11th due to security concerns. RIM faces similar restrictions in India. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said in a statement on state-run Emirates News Agency. “In their current form, certain BlackBerry services allow users to act without any legal accountability, causing judicial, social and national security concerns for the U.A.E.,” it said. A senior Indian government official said, "Though RIM has been fully cooperating ever since the matter was taken up with it in 2008, reports of the company's move to set up a server in China forced us to look at it in a different way.""
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