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FAA Orders Inspections on 737s With Long Flight Life

PHOENIX -- The airliner whose roof ripped open 34,000 feet over Arizona has had a busy 15-year life: taking off and touching down more than seven times a day, on average, and possibly developing microscopic cracks in its aluminum skin each time. Federal aviation officials were preparing to issue an order Tuesday that...

Chinese J-20 Stealth Fighter Takes First Test Flight [VIDEO]

The Chinese J-20 stealth fighter has taken its first test flight out of the southwestern city of Chengdu, The Associated Press reports. The J-20 is being pegged as a possible rival to the U.S. F-22 Raptor, the only stealth fighter aircraft currently in use, yet skeptics maintain that the J-20 is roughly eight years from...

Arianna Huffington in Airplane Blackberry Dispute

Media mogul Arianna Huffington experienced some pre-flight turbulence when she "defied" a United Airlines request for travelers to shut down all electronic devices, leading one incredulous male passenger "to get up from his seat in protest of her continued chatting and texting," the New York Post reported. A testy...

Woman Gets Naked on Delta Flight From Chicago to New York

(Nov. 29) -- Here's one way to get a flight attendant to give you some extra blankets, even if you're not in first class. A coach passenger on a flight from Chicago to New York stripped naked, forcing flight attendants to cover her in a blanket and restrain her until the plane landed at John F. Kennedy International...

Veterans and Volunteers Rebuild Classic War Planes

(Nov. 11) -- In a dilapidated hangar in a faraway corner of Brooklyn, N.Y., veterans -- some of whom served before the age of jet propulsion -- assemble model airplanes. Very big model airplanes. The Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, dubbed HARP by its members, is a program that allows former servicemen and...

Background on airplanes

A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed and the shape of the wings.

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