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Giant Paper Airplane, Amish Buggy Theft, and Broken Planes: Beyond Cars Roundup | Giga Gears
Paper airplanes are wonderful. Few things made a boring middle school math class go by like crafting the perfect paper bird and hurling it at the head of your best buddy across the room. I always found there was one problem with paper airplanes: they’re just two damn small. Well, it seems someone else thought the same…
Air Travel Updates: Unveiling the Current Situation | Giga Gears
It’s been a rough month when it comes to air transportation. Since the start of the new year, we’ve seen everything from door plugs blowing off at 16,000 feet and airplanes colliding on runways to cracked windshields and people getting stuck in bathrooms. Lest we forget a flight I was on had a five-hour delay for…
Suspect Arrested for Selling Fake Engine Parts to Airlines | Giga Gears
If there’s one place you really, really don’t want to experience any engine problems, it’s when you’re more than 30,000 feet in the air and strapped inside a glorified cigar tube. So it was a big deal when it came out that a London-based company was accused of selling counterfeit engine parts to airlines. Now, the…
Commercial Flight Avoids Collision with Private Jet
A private jet and a Airbus A320 commercial aircraft got a little too close for comfort in the skies above southern Florida last weekend.