I live in a suburb of Washington, D.C., and heavy rush hour traffic is a common source of complaint around here.
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<p>Some true gratitude on Thanksgiving.</p>
Here's some interesting video taken by a passenger aboard the Quantas A380 that had a Trent 900 engine blow shortly after taking off on a flight from Singapore to Sydney on November 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Pv9u_yHwIAnd later, the landing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EimwaGXr6p0&f...
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<p>That's what Earth will be.</p>
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NASA's modest solar sail demonstrator launches on a Minotaur 4 rocket.
We're over the North Atlantic, a few hours from landing in New York.
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John Cunningham's wartime nickname concealed a vital military secret—the invention of airborne radar.
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Stories from the shuttle astronauts, in their own words.
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<p>And it flies without wings.</p>
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Today's New York Times dining section features the Perfect Roast Timer, by Kikkerland in SoHo. Florence Fabricant writes "Just when I thought the chicken should be ready...the legs of the timer whipped straight up from horizontal to vertical."In case there is any doubt that the Perfect Roast Timer...
It's been a long, long time since my first solo flight in an airplane and I still remember the mixed emotions of excitement and fear.
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Walter Soplata, a carpenter who saved numerous World War II aircraft and engines from the cutting torch and amassed a legendary collection on his Ohio property, died on Friday, November 5, at age 87. His son, Wally, wrote about his father in the November 2007 issue of Air & Space. Today, he wri...
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The famed Douglas aircraft reigned supreme as a civilian and military transport
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Eyeglasses for the aging astronaut
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Newsreels brought the excitement of aviation to millions of moviegoers in the 1930s. Now read the lost scripts.
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<p>Remember this shot?</p>
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A Boeing C-17 Globemaster treats Long Beach, California, to a spectacular flyover
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