After the second crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 plane in less than five months, Boeing and the FAA refuse to ground the aircraft in the United States – despite the fact that both aircraft crashed within minutes of takeoff and under identical circumstances. For those that grounded the plane, the reason was simple…
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Boy survives sub-zero temperatures and near-zero oxygen after hitching a five-hour flight in the wheel well of airplane.
It’s a rare event and even rarer if the person attempting it survives. The FAA says that since 1947, there have been around 100 people known to have stowed away in wheel wells of an airplane. Most of them died. But this week a 16-year-old boy survived a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii hidden…
Deliveries by unmanned aircraft (UAV’s or drones) – a reality in the making or head in the clouds idea?
When 60 Minutes broke the well-timed Cyber Monday story that Amazon intended to offer product deliveries with a 30-minute turnaround time using automated flying drones, people wondered, can this be true? Could drones be used to make personal deliveries to our homes? In short, yes, it can, and will be done – and the FAA…