flying
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Evacuation Slide Mysteriously Falls Off Of A Boeing Plane In Flight And Lands In Family’s Yard
If you’re keeping a running list of all the things that could potentially go wrong with Boeing’s planes, you can add “mysteriously ejects its own emergency inflatable evacuation slide” to the list, as a Milton, Massachusetts, family discovered yesterday afternoon.
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Hyundai’s Now Trying To Make Flying Cars Happen
Hyundai Motor Group, which primarily makes cars, has announced that they hired a former NASA administrator to lead a new division to “provide innovate and smart mobility solutions never seen or thought of before.” Truly, machines that fly are a new idea.
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It’s About To Get Much More Difficult To Fly DJI Drones Into Planes
Last year, when a Robinson R22 crashed outside of Charleston, South Carolina, the student pilot and instructor in the helicopter said they lost control of the aircraft as they tried to avoid a DJI Phantom quadcopter. The incident could have been one of the first drone-caused aircraft crashes in the U.S.
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Airlines Will Offer New Gender Options Beyond ‘Male’ And ‘Female’ For Non-Binary Flyers
Many U.S. airlines say they’re in the process of updating their booking systems in order to allow for non-binary customers to use pronouns other than “male” or “female.”