Delta CEO gives up airplane seat to mom

(CNN) -- Jessie Frank had spent the entire day trying to get home. When a man in a collared shirt and tie placed her carry-on luggage in an overhead compartment and pointed her in the direction of her seat, she didn't give it a second thought. She assumed he must have been an off-duty pilot. "As the plane descended into Atlanta, the flight attendant announced that there was a special guest on board," wrote Frank, in a letter to Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson. "He was… (www.cnn.com) 更多...

When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site

The Electronic Frontier Foundation published an article on the Flightprep patent abuses. The EFF runs a [https://w2.eff.org/patent/wp.php patent busting project] where they fund legal defenses against bogus patents. Huge organization with tons of cash...you do not want these guys against you. (www.eff.org) 更多...

Woman sends message to Wall St -- by plane

KIRKWOOD, Mo. -- A Kirkwood, Mo., mom was so fed up with what's going on in Washington and on Wall Street, that she decided to send a message -- by plane. Lucy Nobbe paid to have a banner made and flown over lower Manhattan on Tuesday. The banner said: "Thanks for the downgrade, you should all be fired." (www.usatoday.com) 更多...

Passenger forced to stand for seven hours on U.S. Airways

A passenger had to stand during a seven-hour flight after a morbidly obese man sitting next to him made it impossible to get into his seat. Arthur Berkowitz said his 400lb neighbour on US Airways Flight 901 from Anchorage to Philadelphia spilled over into his personal space. He was not able to sit in his seat, could not move elsewhere in the aircraft because it was full and was therefore forced to stand up. (www.dailymail.co.uk) 更多...

New study proves just how worthless TSA airport body scanners really are

‟In laboratory tests with a real machine, we were able to conceal guns, knives, and explosive simulants in such a way that they were not visible to the scanner operator,” the report reads. ‟We also studied the cyberphysical security of the machine and were able to show how an attacker could subvert the operator console software so that it would be possible to conceal all types of contraband.” (www.dailydot.com) 更多...

What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max?

Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty. (www.nytimes.com) 更多...

Day in the United States Airspace

Animation of all flight movements tracked by FlightAware during a 24-hour period. (flightaware.com) 更多...

Man wears 70 items of clothing at airport to avoid baggage charge

A man took to putting on 70 items of clothing to avoid an extra baggage charge at an airport. The unidentified passenger turned up at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China, described as looking like a 'sumo wrestler'. According to Guangzhou Daily, the man's luggage exceeded the weight limit. He did not want to pay the extra baggage costs, and thus took out and wore more than 60 shirts and nine pairs of jeans. (www.digitalspy.com) 更多...

(Video) Aircraft refueling in Congo

Show this to FBOs that complain when you don't have single point refueling. (www.youtube.com) 更多...

(VID) First rule of touch & goes - make sure you raise the flaps and not the gear!

Beechcraft Bonanza doing touch & gos at Yao airport in Japan. Look like they did a gear-up during the roll-out. (www.youtube.com) 更多...