Robot unveiled in Japan today will go on sale for £900,000
Kuratas can be controlled by motion sensor technology in the one-man cockpit or through any phone with a 3G connection
As well as auto targeting your enemy it is easy for those looking for sweet vengeance – the robot’s heavy artillery fires 6,000 bullet per minute when the pilot smiles
A Japanese electronics company has unveiled a 13ft super-robot which can be [...]
Airline officials are trying to figure out if there is anything to be done after a Georgia congressman urinated into a cup on a flight from Washington to Atlanta on Thursday night.
Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop, flying from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Hartsfield Airport on Delta Flight 1717, got up to go to the bathroom after the mandatory half-hour when passengers must stay seated, but found the lavatories on [...]
Two men who allegedly tried to hijack a plane in China were beaten to death by passengers and crew, state media said today.
The men were part of a six-strong gang, aged 20 to 36, who attempted to hijack a Tianjin Airlines flight bound for Urumqi last Friday.
Minutes after the flight carrying 101 people took off from Hetian, southwest Xinjiang, three men in the front and three in the back stood up and [...]
By Troy Anderson
At a time of skyrocketing federal debt, declining morality and growing spiritual apathy and apostasy, New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg – known as a “modern-day Nostradamus” – says America may face cataclysmic collapse in the not-too distant future.
In his new book, Implosion: Can America Recover from its Economic & Spiritual Challenges in Time? (Tyndale House Publishers), Rosenberg explores the question a growing number of politicians, academics, authors [...]
The captain in charge of the Air France jet which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 may have been with a woman when the plane ran into trouble, it has emerged.
Captain Marc Dubois took more than a minute to return to the cockpit of Air France flight 447 after his co-pilots lost control of the plane during a severe thunderstorm.
What delayed the captain has never been revealed, but two [...]
The sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse has landed safely in Madrid this morning – and now the plane waits to make another trip, this time across the Mediterranean.
Pilot Andre Borschberg successfully landed in the sunny capital of Madrid at 7.30am BST, following a 24-hour trip from Payerne in western Switzerland.
While this may not be setting any speed records anytime soon, the plane did not need a drop of fuel to get [...]
For a new documentary, the Discovery Channel took a Boeing 727 to a remote part of the Mexican desert and had it crash to examine what exactly happens in an emergency situation.
It didn’t go well for the plane.
According to The Daily Mail, the fuselage of the 727 actually broke in two. The cockpit and front seats actually folded under the back half.
The plane, which was thankfully full of crash dummies, was being controlled remotely to make for a fairly [...]
Daily Mail
April 25, 2012
The former head of the Transportation Security Administration has once again lambasted the country’s airport security system.
Kip Hawley, who was head of the TSA from 2005-2009, says he understands why the public is ‘fed-up’ with the agency, because lengthy security checks and a laundry list of banned items do little to stop terrorists and need to be streamlined.
He argues passengers should be allowed to carry blades, small [...]
The former head of the Transportation Security Administration has once again lambasted the country’s airport security system.
Kip Hawley, who was head of the TSA from 2005-2009, says he understands why the public is ‘fed-up’ with the agency, because lengthy security checks and a laundry list of banned items do little to stop terrorists and need to be streamlined.
He argues passengers should be allowed to carry blades, small weapons and liquids [...]
Confused Jetstar pilots forgot to lower the wheels and had to abort a landing in Singapore just 150 metres above the ground, after the captain became distracted by his mobile phone, an investigation has found.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau report on the May 27, 2010 incident on Flight JQ57, from Darwin to Singapore, reconstructed a scene of cockpit chaos.
The captain, of more than 13,000 hours flying experience, was distracted by [...]
The ‘brain’ will take 12 years to build
It will feature thousands of three-dimensional images built around a semi-circular ‘cockpit’
The human brain’s power could rival any machine. And now scientists are trying to build one using the world’s most powerful computer.
It is intended to combine all the information so far uncovered about its mysterious workings – and replicate them on a screen, right down to the level of individual cells and [...]
Airport security in America is broken. I should know. For 3½ years—from my confirmation in July 2005 to President Barack Obama’s inauguration in January 2009—I served as the head of the Transportation Security Administration.
You know the TSA. We’re the ones who make you take off your shoes before padding through a metal detector in your socks (hopefully without holes in them). We’re the ones who make you throw out your [...]
National Post
March 28, 2012
A JetBlue pilot who had a mid-air meltdown and rammed the cockpit doors during a rant about al-Qaeda managed to break through plastic restraint ties used to handcuff him, it was revealed today.
JetBlue 191 flight from New York to Las Vegas, Nevada, was diverted to Amarillo, Texas, for an emergency landing Tuesday morning after the pilot, identified as Clayton Osbon, suddenly began screaming about terror threats and [...]
LAS VEGAS (CBS Las Vegas/AP) — A JetBlue captain who had to be restrained aboard a flight has been suspended after Tuesday’s incident.
“(Clayton Osbon) has been suspended pending a further investigation,” JetBlue spokeswoman Tamara Young told CBS Las Vegas.
Passengers aboard an early morning flight from New York bound for Las Vegas first noticed something wrong when the plane’s top pilot, Clayton Osbon, came out of the cockpit, didn’t close the door [...]
A JetBlue flight captain had to be tackled by passengers today after he ran up and down a packed flight screaming about “terrorism” and “al Qaeda” in a terrifying mid-air outburst.
“Say your prayers!” the crazed pilot screamed as he ran up and down the aisle, a passenger told The Post.
“Someone next to me said he was saying something about bombs,” recounted the passenger, Tiffany Lee, a 26-year-old Las Vegas resident.
The [...]
Unruly pilot identified as Clayton Osbon, 49, who has been a JetBlue captain for 12 years
Captain screamed ‘Iraq, al-Qaeda, terrorism, we’re all going down’ after coming out of the toilet telling passengers ‘say your prayers, say your prayers’
Passengers looked on in horror as the married captain tried to break into the cockpit after being locked out
Flight attendant urged passengers to restrain the increasingly erratic captain
Four passengers, including a retired NYPD [...]
There may be light at the end of the tunnel for flyers wanting to use their personal electronic devices in the air.
The U.S. government is taking a tentative step toward making it easier for airlines to allow passengers to use tablets, e-readers and music players during takeoffs and landings.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is considering ways that airlines, aircraft manufacturers, consumer electronics makers, and flight attendant unions can come [...]
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A disturbance on-board an American Airlines flight scares passengers and lands a man in police custody.
Flight 2401 left Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport bound for Los Angeles. Passenger Lori Barber said about 15 minutes into the flight a man charged past her, demanding to see the pilot.
Barber told NewsRadio 1080 KRLD the man was hard to miss.
“Well he was wearing two pairs of glasses, one with a red [...]
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