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Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets.

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A passenger died and 30 other people were injured on a Singapore Airlines flight when the plane hit severe turbulence, prompting an emergency landing in Bangkok.

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Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides flying off mi

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Back in the early 20th century, food and cigarette companies would sometimes include collectible cards with their products. And that’s exactly what happened around 1910 when Wills’s Cigarettes included cards about the history of flying with their smokes.

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Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a flight feels like common sense. You wouldn’t be crazy for thinking your phone signal could interfere with an airplane’s navigation systems, potentially causing a disaster. However, the necessity of airplane mode is largely a myth, and there’s another reason airlines…

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A former US intelligence officer believes he may have found the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane. His team used a $9 million submersible that picked up a sonar image during a 100-day expedition.

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middle seat skitch
  • The middle seat has long been maligned as the worst seat on a plane.
  • A recent trip helped me realize there are actually benefits to the middle seat.
  • Aisle and window seats aren't all they are cracked up to be, either. 

Window or aisle?