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1953: After several high-profile crashes of de Havilland Comet airliners go unsolved, Australian researcher David Warren invents a device to record cockpit noise and instruments during flight. During the first half of aviation’s history, crashes rarely came with any answers. Even if an eyewitness saw an airplane crash, little was known ...

2005: Steve Fossett completes the first nonstop, unrefueled, solo airplane flight around the world. Fossett — who enjoyed well-earned reputations as a sailor, aviator and adventurer — set 116 records in five sports. As of June 2007, 60 of them still stood. Among his accomplishments, Fossett set circumnavigation records in a ...

1949: After 94 hours, 1 minute of flying time, a Boeing B-50 named Lucky Lady II lands at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, completing the first ever nonstop, around-the-world trip by an airplane. The flight covered 23,452 miles, averaging a ground speed of 249 miles per hour. The modified bomber required air-to-air ...

Resorts World at Sentosa and Tiger Airways Singapore today announced plans for a chartered aircraft dedicated to flying overseas guests to Resorts World Sentosa. Yet to be named, the private flight service, operated by Tiger Airways, will have an aircraft operating as a dedicated charter service for Resorts World ...

The Americans may still go to the moon before the ChineseWHEN America’s space agency, NASA, announced its spending plans in February, some people worried that its cancellation of the Constellation moon programme had ended any hopes of Americans returning to the Earth’s rocky satellite. The next footprints on the lunar ...

Kevin Smith — portly star of the Silent Bob films — is not happy about being called a “safety risk” by Southwest Airlines. The Cop Out director — who also helmed comedy Mallrats and Clerks — took to his Twitter account this weekend to inform his over 1.6 million followers ...

Lindsay Lohan has missed out on an opportunity to pocket $150,000 because she was too busy shopping to arrive on time for a flight to Europe. Lohan won’t attend tonight’s famous Vienna Opera Ball as the guest of rich businessman Richard Lugner because she missed her flight out the country, ...

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Singapore Airlines says SQ11 successfully completed an experiment on eco-friendly flight, achieving fuel savings of more than 10 tonnes and a reduction in carbon emissions of more than 33 tonnes. The Boeing 747-400, which departed Los Angeles on Jan 31, arrived in Singapore early this morning via Tokyo. Read ...

Hundreds of passengers were stuck at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) Friday with no information of flight schedules as air services were once again disrupted due to dense fog engulfing the capital. Passengers at the IGIA had a harrowing time as no prior information was provided to them by the airlines ...

When music-loving Mumbaikars gathered for what they thought would be an evening of soulful music by acclaimed sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, they were in for a surprise. The maestro was there, but his delicate teakwood instrument was damaged, courtesy flight handlers at Air India. Amjad Ali Khan turned up ...

1908: French aviator Henry Farman makes the first official flight of 1 kilometer around a predetermined closed course. He wins a huge monetary prize. When Farman first flew an airplane in 1907, it was a time when simply being a pilot meant you had a good chance of setting records. Within ...

1942: British physicist Stephen Hawking is born. Hawking was born in Oxford, where his parents moved to escape the German Blitz on London. His website notes, in an interesting historical aside, that his birth came on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. Though naturally predisposed to mathematics, young Hawking switched to physics, ...

Comedienne Joan Rivers missed a flight from Costa Rica to Los Angeles on Sunday after she was “held hostage” by airport security before boarding a flight to Newark, New Jersey. The sharp-tongued pundit ran into troubled when officials questioned the authenticity of her passport. The 76-year-old is listed as Joan ...

US officials on Sunday toughened security measures for all US-bound airline passengers, and warned those travelling from or via 14 "terror linked" nations will undergo mandatory enhanced screening. The new measures came in the wake of the botched Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines

An attempt to down an airliner, apparently inspired by al-Qaeda, thankfully failsEYEWITNESSES on the Northwest Airlines flight 253 between Amsterdam and Detroit on Christmas day spoke of a loud bang, a struggle and smoke and screams shortly before the plane touched down at its destination. It emerged that the chaotic ...

President Barack Obama, who is on vacation in Hawaii, was "actively monitoring" the situation with a Delta flight on which a man reportedly set off firecrackers, the White House said on Friday. A man reportedly set off firecrackers on Delta Flight 253 that was carrying 278 passengers ...

1903: Orville Wright successfully makes a flight in a heavier-than-air machine that takes off from level ground under its own power and is controlled during flight. He flies the first airplane. If it seems there are a few caveats to the Wright brothers’ achievement 106 years ago, it’s because there had ...

Bummer city: After two televison seasons and two albums of quirky musical comedy, the Flight of the Conchords guys are calling it quits. "We won't be returning for a 3rd season," wrote the duo on ...

Virgin Galactic’s spaceship makes its first appearanceIN THE 1960s Pan Am, an American airline, set up a waiting list for people hoping to fly to the moon. Such was the interest that 80,000 people signed up. In the end, Pan Am died before the space dream did. So when a ...