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FAA bill would force the agency to craft 'real world' rules for airplane evacuations
NPR· 4 days agoThe agency's current evacuation standards date back to the 1960s. In order for an airplane to be...
Airline meals used to be plentiful, luxurious. Here’s what happened
Napa Valley Register· 3 days agoIf you took an American Airlines flight in the 1960s, you’d be wined and dined from the Coach-class...
Being Nick Kristof
New York Times· 4 days agoThere aren’t many journalists who can claim to have had more of an impact on the world than Nicholas D. Kristof. In 1997, one of his dispatches for The...
HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Humboldt County Teacher Who Flew Before the Wright Brothers, and the Forgotten...
Lost Coast Outpost· 7 days agoVierra at Fruitland in San Diego County. Montgomery was killed while flying this craft on Oct. 31, 1911. One day, in about the year 1920, when I was attending the Marshall School in Eureka, ...
How the Airstream Hit the Open Road
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoIn the late 1920s, an ambitious young Stanford grad named Wally Byam found himself in booming Los Angeles, far from the rural Oregon of his youth, where...
Commercial jet maker Airbus is staying humble even as Boeing flounders. There's a reason for that
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 6 days agoAirbus CEO Guillaume Faury presents the European aerospace giant full year results, Feb. 15, 2024 in Blagnac, near Toulouse, southwestern France. In the latest round of their decades-long battle ...