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Jon Bon Jovi Rescues Woman on Nashville Bridge | Giga Gears
American singer-songwriter Jon Bon Jovi and a member of the crew from a video shoot he was working on talked a woman away from the ledge of a bridge earlier this week. The New Jersey singer was shooting a video in Nashville on Tuesday when he spotted a woman over the safety rail on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge.
“Fire Claims Second $2 Million Hispano-Suiza in Monterey This Year | Giga Gears”
You don’t often hear about disasters befalling the annual luxury gathering that is the Monterey Car Week. However, this year catastrophe struck when a priceless Ford Ghia Probe 1 Concept Car went up in flames leaving the event and now a second multi-million-dollar motor has been destroyed in a fire following the meet.
Stronger Storms’ Lightning Strikes Pose Threat to Airports and Airbases
While flying planes are hardened to withstand lightning strikes, airports are typically a cluster of free-standing structures on a flat, open plot of land. The ongoing increase in lightning strikes caused by climate change is a direct danger to facilities and people on the ground. The adage that “lightning never…
Delta Planes Crash on Atlanta Runway, Tail Ripped Off Regional Jet
Airports might seem like organized chaos at times, but believe it or not there’s a careful choreography going on to bring aircraft in to land and send others into the skies safely. Sometimes, it doesn’t all go to plan and this week disaster struck when two Delta aircraft collided on the tarmac at Atlanta’s…
“Boeing Starliner: A Timeline of Issues | Giga Gears”
The Boeing Starliner finally plopped down in the New Mexico desert last week after spending three months in orbit. The beleaguered spacecraft suffered technical problems during its rendezvous with the International Space Station. It drastically prolonged the eight-day mission as engineers raced to identify the issue…