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Paragliding at Poo Poo Point

Issaquah, Washington. Pick your hike -- 2.5 miles or 4 miles -- but either way you must climb about 1,800 feet to reach this... more

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Squirrels can fly

With a little help obviously...

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Hooray for Flying Dogs!

Dogs are awesome. And the only thing more awesome than a dog is a flying dog. Yeah, yeah, so dogs can't really fly, but... more

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Remote control flying LAWNMOWER!

check this out - some guys in the states built a lawnmower that flies! it looks like it's basically a wing which is in the... more

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Inspired by Icarus?

Loic Jean Albert?

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United Kingdom Talk Tuesday 12th May 2009

Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs &... more

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Dominic Monaghan Doesn't Want To Read Your Mind

We ask Dominic Monaghan of X-Men Origins: Wolverine the most obvious question possible: What superpower would you like to have,... more

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Aircrafts to adopt 'silent flight', just like Owls

The European plane manufacturer Airbus, are studying was to construct aircrafts with silent flight patterns, as a means to reduce... more

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Eagle Cam!

Someone strapped a camera to an eagle and let it fly around and then made a video with some pretty music. Fly like an eagle!

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Hotelicopter: yes it's a hotel and a helicopter all rolled into one

Because nothing says I have an obscene amount of money like flying around the world in your hotel, that's actually a... more

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Flying car! Terrafugia makes first flight

The first 'plausible' "flying car/ drivable airplane" made its first official flight earlier this month, no... more

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Flying High? Pilot took Ecstasy before fatal flight

A pilot who crashed, killing himself and a 13-year-old boy whom he had offered a birthday treat flight, had taken Ecstasy, an... more

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Part 2 of Sir Richard Branson's Video Blog of his 8 Day Quest Around the World

Sir Richard Branson has also launched a global competition to find the best Richard ‘look-a-like’

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Sir Richard Branson Goes Around the World in 8 Days to Find His Ultimate 'Look-a-like'

Sir Richard Branson has launched a global competition to find the best Richard ‘look-a-like’, as part of Virgin... more

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Mobile phone calls in the air!!!

Ryanair, the cheapest, bestest, lucky if you have seatbelts let alone leg room airline, is now raising the bar and allowing (for a... more

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Pilot Error Probed in Deadly Plane Crash

Investigators finished gathering human remains at the site of last week's catastrophic plane crash outside Buffalo and turned... more

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Planes, Flying and Aviation

All About planes, flying, aviation. A growing database of planes and flying. Theory of flying and aviation explained.

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'Flying Car' Goes to Market

A Boston-area company plans to begin flight tests this year of a 2 seater airplane that moonlights as a car. The aptly named... more

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Baby chimp flies on commercial jet

A baby chimpanzee was a passenger on a recent commercial flight from Birmingham to Germany.

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In-flight confrontations can lead to terrorism charges

Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight to Denver in 2007 when her two children began to quarrel over the window shade and then spilled a Bloody Mary into her lap.

She spanked each of them on the thigh with three swats. It was a small incident, but one that in the heightened anxiety after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would eventually have enormous ramifications for Freeman and her children.

A flight attendant confronted Freeman, who responded by hurling a few profanities and throwing what remained of a can of tomato juice on the floor.

The incident aboard the Frontier flight ultimately led to Freeman's arrest and conviction for a federal felony defined as an act of terrorism under the Patriot Act, the controversial federal law enacted after the 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.

"I had no idea I was breaking the law," said Freeman, 40, who spent three months in jail before pleading guilty.

Freeman is one of at least 200 people on flights who have been convicted under the amended law. In most of the cases, there was no evidence that the passengers had attempted to hijack the airplane or physically attack any of the flight crew. Many have simply involved raised voices, foul language and drunken behavior.

Some security experts say the use of the law by airlines and their employees has run amok, criminalizing incidents that did not start out as a threat to public safety, much less an act of terrorism.

In one case, a couple was arrested after an argument with a flight attendant, who claimed the couple was engaged in "overt sexual activity" -- an FBI affidavit said the two were "embracing, kissing and acting in a manner that made other passengers uncomfortable."

"We have gone completely berserk on this issue," said Charles Slepian, a New York security consultant. "These are not threats to national security or threats to aircraft, but we use that as an excuse."

Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd defended the prosecutions, saying that they have helped improve airline security. He added that the department has only pursued prosecution "when the facts and circumstances of a particular case warrant such action."

Indeed, the law has given airlines new flexibility to clamp down on unruly behavior. But the intent of the Patriot Act provisions was to put terrorists in violation of the law before they could execute an actual takeover, said Nathan Sales, a law professor at George Mason University who helped write the Patriot Act when he served in the Justice Department.

But Sales acknowledged that in the fervor to protect the skies, the practical application of the law has strayed.

"A woman spanking her child is not as great a threat to aviation as members of Al Qaeda with box cutters. That much is clear," he said...Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight to Denver in 2007 when her two children began to quarrel over the window shade... more