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We learned back in February that Virgin Australia would be trialling the Samsung Galaxy Tab as an in-flight entertainment option, and that only business class passengers would be in the first round of testing. But it turns out the trial is even more restricted than that: it’s only running for a single week. Fortunately, there’s better news ahead.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has released a list of all the organisations in the US that are allowed to fly drones. There are 61 of them, and while it includes the players you’d expect, there are also a lot of random ones that somehow made it.
We’ve all felt tired to the point of being loopy, but most of the time we’re not in the cockpit of a 767, confusing a planet for another plane and sending ours into a nosedive.
OH MY GOD THERE’S A BOMB ON THE PLANE. That’s what one passenger on board thought when he saw a mobile phone being charged inside the aeroplane bathroom. The plane, headed for America, had to make an emergency landing in Dublin, Ireland, to deal with the “bomb”.
I’m no engineer, but I know this: If personal electronics could bring down a plane, Al Qaeda would just assign a group of followers to send simultaneous text messages from the next flight out of Jerusalem. Update: Or… don’t. Just don’t.
You’re looking at the Internet Bird Man, who captivated the web’s attention for dozens of hours and divided us between sceptics and the faithful. It was a hoax! It turns out he even made up his name.