" Posted November 20, 2008 A classified CIA report suggests that the agency lied to Congress and withheld information from the Justice Department concerning a clandestine...
Amazingly, a pilot in the UK who lost his sight while flying a light aircraft was able to be safely guided back to earth by the Royal Air Force. The sudden blindness was caused by a stroke."A pilot who lost his sight...
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A small plane carrying a British family has crashed on the east coast of Ireland, killing everyone on board. The plane is thought to have gone down on Saturday in a remote area, but rescuers were unable to fund it...
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Moments before take-off a pilot is taken from his cockpit and marched away by police to be breathalysed. Passengers watch on clutching their duty-free goods a little closer. From Heathrow to San Francisco is long...
Just three years ago, 25-year-old Jessica Cox had never been in a small airplane and certainly never imagined one day piloting one. That all changed on October 10th, 2008 when Jessica not only piloted the aircraft,...
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"Two US fighter planes were scrambled and ordered to shoot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) over the English countryside during the Cold War, according to secret files made public yesterday."
That is the last update on the Brazilian plans to hit a zero deforestation target by 2015. Brazil has been moving aggressively against illegal Amazon destruction, now part of the technology that will be used was...
Capitalizing on the runaway success of reality series America's Next Top Model, the CW network has ordered up a pilot for Operation Fabulous which will star two of ANTM's personalities, Jay Manuel and J...
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John "Songbird" McCain and his followers are in feigned huff about "character". Whilst John McCain may indeed be a character, he is more than lacking in character.His "heroic" time as a prisoner of war speaks...
I just found this story about the Blink 182 drummer and another musician getting injured in that recent airplane accident. I was unaware that 4 people were killed. There was a loud noise. I wonder if it was terrorists?"Four people were recently killed in a...
"China's Shenzhou VII space capsule has returned to Earth after a successful mission orbiting the planet. The spacecraft touched down in the Mongolian desert to rapturous applause from mission control in Beijing....
" Regulars here may remember Yves Rossy, the Swiss airline pilot who has turned himself into the world's first human jet. I spent the day with him today at Calais as he prepared to strap on his wings...
A man is going to attempt to fly across the English Channel today using a single jet-propelled wing. If he is sucesful, he will set a world record for the flight. If you're there to witness this sight in the UK or in...
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