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America calls British aircraft carrier a toy

Emmanuel Adelakun @ogbenishyna44 (1744) 30 Mar

America always take jabs at the United Nations, and even when the UK decided to send a warship to the middle east, the USA decided to ridicule them by calling their aircraft carrier a toy. Trump should understand that even their...

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Airline flew passengers luggages while passengers remain stranded

Emmanuel Adelakun @ogbenishyna44 (1744) 17 Jun

This is one of the funniest news I have read recently. It happened in Nigeria that an airline flew some passengers luggages to their destination where their owners remained stranded at the airport. Could this be a deliberate thing...

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Toilets in planes

Always smiling @allknowing (153529) • India 17 Feb 25

I have travelled a lot by plane and my worst experience is to use those toilets in planes The space is tiny and the door unpredictable. Once I got trapped inside as I could not open the door I had to bang it several times...

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Why was I Spared?

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 8 Feb 25

The plane was descending to the airport tarmac in San Francisco. I saw another plane close to ours, taking off. We were too close together. I saw the wing tip out of the window, it looked like it would hit the wingtip of our...

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Having a Lazy Sunday Afternoon

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 2 Apr 23

Son2 and GF went home this morning before lunch. I spent part of the morning doing the annual maintenance and services on the lawn mower. Later in the morning, K mowed the small patch of our backyard that has grass. I worked for...

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Book Review David Graham Down To A Sunless Sea

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 4 Dec 18

(1981) Fawcett Crest - Spoiler alerts David Graham (Pen Name of Robert Hale), using a title drawn from the poem Kublai Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, gives the world one of its best anti-nuclear novels since Neville Shute’s...

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Why Blame Wild Horses

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 28 Sep 18

A strange saying I hear a lot is Wild Horses couldn't make me do it. It usually involves someone saying they won't do something they either fear or dislike intensely. Someone afraid of flying to the point of never wanting to...

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The Night Flight

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 12 May 17

The Night Flight - Against the vast field of twinkling stars, the airplane wings its way across the sky. Looking down out of the airliner, the passengers cannot see much below save for a twinkling light here and a twinkling...

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Ruling the Sky

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 17 Oct 16

Ruling the Sky - I was having some pleasant chats here on the website with Mill Otter, @PGNtwo. We were going into it about life on the airfield and above it back in "the old days." Our pal, @PGNtwo, used to be a flight...

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Another Nice Dream

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 14 Oct 16

Another Nice Dream - Used to be that I thought only little kids and royalty had dreams, but now I know better. In fact, I can call those dreams up on command. The other day, it was "my oil well." Today it is my little...

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Is it or isn't?

Reine25 @Lucky15 (37391) • Philippines 1 Jul 16

There.is this "joke" that goes like this, "paalala sa mga pasaherong Pilipino, ang kumot ay hindi inuuwi".(reminders to all Filipino passengers, the blanket is not to be taken home). Do you or have you taken home something from...

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Is it a good idea to convert old airplanes into hostels or hotels?

Shavkat @Shavkat (141905) • Philippines 18 Jun 16

In this modern world that we live in, things change too fast. Coping up is the way to fit in. There is also a comfortable place to stay while traveling. I wanted to experience to stay in an aircraft that is being turned into...

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What Happened to the Egyptian Aircraft?

abollegala @abollegala (92) • Sri Lanka 23 May 16

Does anybody suspect that the missing Egyptian aircraft was shot?

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Ill fated aircraft

Yanzalong @yanzalong (19091) • Indonesia 13 Apr 16

Do you still remember a Russian commercial aircraft, which crashed into a mountain in West Java? No one survived and it took a long time to find the rubble and the victims. The mountain is actually a beautiful one. Not as scary as...

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Vertical Aircraft

Chloe Flanagan @puddleglum (1380) • United States 7 Mar 16

The United States military has revealed plans to build an aircraft capable of taking off vertically. "Isn't that called a helicopter?" you might ask. (That was my initial query.) But this craft will be unmanned, faster than a...

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Movie clichés used in dozens of movies – The passenger lands the plane

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 8 Sep 15

A passenger jet is in trouble. All the flight crew are dead or unconscious. A passenger who has knowledge of planes ends up landing everyone safely. The passenger either a/. flew a completely different aircraft, (i.e., a hot air...

It could have been another plane crash

Belle_of_the_Ball @Belle_of_the_Ball (896) • Philippines 16 Jan 13

Have you heard about what happened to BOEING Dreamliner,recently? I read over the internet that it made an emergency landing.According All Nippon Airlines,the aircraft did an emergency landing after receiving the message saying...

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I have read that personal aircraft would be more common way to travel

hotsummer @hotsummer (13919) • Philippines 23 Dec 12

So I am surprised that Drone which is more like a small airplane that is much lighter. I think it is just like a very small plane for one or two person. I have read online that because of the popularity of smartphone that has GPS...

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The slightest technical issue with an aircraft seems to cause tremendous concern

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 15 Nov 12

Considering the vast number of aircraft taking to the air each day, the number of accidents is very small. Of course any crash is a serious matter and nobody wishes to be involved with one, but the safety record is quite...

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The route of a plane and time differences

maximax8 @maximax8 (31042) • United Kingdom 19 Sep 12

Colombia is a Spanish speaking country so I went to it from England via Spain. So is Argentina a Spanish speaking country so again I went there from England changing planes in Spain. On the planes I looked at the route mat. A lot...

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