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PHOTOS: 10 Things To Pack That Will Save You Money

SmarterTravel | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Airport Security, Travel, Airport, Airplane, Slideexpand, Travel Advice, Travel Tips, Travel Blogs, Packing Tips, Luggage, Packing, Travel News
SmarterTravel

The right travel gear can help you keep costs down while seeing the world.

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Cuban Artist Duo Los Carpinteros Presents New Works at Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires

VernissageTV | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Art News, Cuban, Airplane, Alan Faena, Contemporary Art, Artists, Los Carpinteros, Interview, Faena, Video, Arts News
VernissageTV

The Faena Arts Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina currently presents a solo exhibition of the collective Los Carpinteros. Los Carpinteros (The Carpente...

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Torture In The Air: A Traveler's Rant

Tom Alderman | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Air Travel, Banckruptcy, Overhead-Bins, Lost Bags, Kristin Chenoweth, Steerage, Greyhound Bus First-Class, Friendly Skies, Airplane, American Airlines, Lavatories. Flight Deck, Pilots, Tray Tables, Flight Attendants, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Tom Alderman

Many of us have a genuine anxiety about flying. It's not so much that the plane will fall out of the sky -- although to some of us it's always a possibility -- it's more about the entire truly tortuous air travel experience.

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Which Fictional Movie Universe Do You Most Want To Live In?

Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Video, The Hobbit, The Avengers, Avatar, Marvel, Airplane, Lord of the Rings, Twilight, Harry Potter, Twitter Poll, Alien, Movies, Jurassic Park, Entertainment News

Inspired by a recent Reddit thread, we here at HuffPost Entertainment would love to know what fictional movie universe you would most want to live in....

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WATCH: Lab-Made Lightning Triggers Major Explosions

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Video, Aircraft, Lightning Airplanes, Lightning Planes, Man-Made Lightning, Airplane, Aerospace Engineering, Lightning, Engineering, Artificial Lightning, Science News

In ancient times, people thought the gods made lightning. Nowadays, scientists in Wales make lightning in a lab--and it's 10 times more powerful than ...

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Fighter Jets Scrambled After Plane Loses Contact

AP | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Plane, Airplane, Travel News, Travel, Air Travel, San Francisco, Jets, Travel News

SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal authorities say fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a small plane that had lost contact with traffic controllers over Ca...

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How Panic Doomed Air France Flight 447

Jeff Wise | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Air France 447, Airplane Crash, Airplane, Air France Flight 447, Air France, France, Brazil, Slidepollajax, Disaster, Travel Blogs, Pilots, Popular Mechanics, Travel News
Jeff Wise

How, in the age of satellite navigation and instantaneous global communication, could a state-of-the art airliner simply vanish?

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WATCH: Cop Car Stops Plane Filled With Stolen Electronics

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Cop Car, Stolen Goods, Plane, Video, Jalopnik, Cop Car Airplane, Crime, Brazil, Cop Car Plane, Airplane, World News

Well, you don't see this everyday (unless you have an unhealthy daily addiction to action movies). Jalopnik uncovered amazing video of a cop car in...

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Grieving On A Jet Plane: Tips For Traveling For Funerals And Other Unhappy Occasions

Jen Pollack Bianco | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Day of the Dead, Grief, Travel, Grieving, Day-of-the-Dead, Death & Dying, Airplane, Travel News
Jen Pollack Bianco

The five stages of grief -- which I have learned can happen all at the same time -- make it hard to function sometimes, so travel can be more difficult than usual. Grief is a complex and inconvenient emotion.

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Ride On First 787 Dreamliner Sells For Over $31K On eBay

Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Boeing, Global Pulse, Dreamliner, Boeing 787, Ana, Airplane, Video, Travel News

One seriously dedicated flier has snagged two seats on the inaugural flight of ANA's 787 Dreamliner for a cool $31,500. The unnamed traveler won th...

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Weekend Recommendations -- September 15-18

Girl at a Bar | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sarah Silverman, Lobster Festival, Airplane!, Moby, Hollywood Bowl, Surfer Blood, Joy Division, Don Henley, La Around Town, We Barbarians, Peter Hook and the Light, Lucinda Williams, Los Angeles News
Girl at a Bar

Labor Day has come and gone, but fall doesn't officially begin until Friday, September 23rd. So before we welcome in the cool autumn breezes, here's to one last weekend of sizzling summer celebrations.

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Midair Crash Survivor Landed Plane At Near Stall

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Midair Crash, Cessna, Survivor, Scott Veal, Anchorage, Airplane, Kristen Sprague, Alaska, Plane Crash, Ntsb, Kenai, Travel News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The survivor of a midair collision in Alaska last week that killed her boyfriend, who was piloting the other plane, managed ...

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Air Passenger Arrested For Not Turning Off Phone

AP | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Global Pulse, Southwest Airlines, Turn Off Phone, Cell Phone, Airplane, Travel News

PHOENIX -- El Paso, Texas, police arrested a Southwest Airlines passenger on a flight from Phoenix after he refused to turn off his cell phone. South...

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Andrew Burmon

INFOGRAPHIC: How To Board A Plane

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: This vs That, Physics, Airplane, Global Pulse, Continental, Delta, Infographics, Tv, Air Travel, Airlines, Jason Steffen, How to Board a Plane, Travel News

Where millions and millions of passengers saw yet another unpleasant step in the process of air travel, particle physicist Jason Steffen saw a solvabl...

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WATCH: Man Sees His House Getting Burglarized During Airplane Fly-Over

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Arkansas, Video, Dumb Crime, Arkansas Crime, Fly-Over, Airplane, Burglary Witness, Fly Over Burglary, Man Sees House Getting Burglarized During Fly-Over, Steven Lynn, Crime News

They say someone up there is watching -- and sometimes that someone is you. Steven Lynn was on his first small airplane ride when he thought it wou...

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TSA Catches Smugglers With Birds, Snakes And A Turtle (PHOTO)

Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Plane, Tsa, Video, Airport, Snakes, Airplane, Lax, Global Pulse, Birds, Airports, Miami, Flying, Snakes on a Plane, Travel News

TSA agents at Los Angeles International Airport discovered two birds while patting down a passenger planning to board a China-bound flight last week, ...

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iPads Help United Create Paperless Cockpits

Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Apple, United Airlines, Computers, Airplane, Pilot, Airlines, Flying, Ipad, Travel News

As popular as the iPad has become with travelers, it seems it may be more popular with airlines. United Airlines has announced that it will be givi...

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"The French Connection"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Stamford Advocate, Transatlantic, Gps, French, Humor, Atlantic, Airplane, Paris, France, English, Language, Airport, Cadenet, Boomer, Marseille, Wine, Stamford, New England, Luberon, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

Excusez-moi, s'il vous plait. I should say I'll always have Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, where I recently spent eight minutes (huit minutes) sprinting from one airplane (l'avion) to another.

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GE Surveys Future Of Flight And The World's Most Popular Airports

AOL Travel News | Posted 11.08.2011

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Airbus Trounces Boeing At Paris Air Show

AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Airasia, Boeing, a320, France, Airplane, Tom Enders, United States, Boeing 737, Europe, Tony Fernandes, Indigo, Airbus, Airline, Business News

LE BOURGET, France — Airbus is trouncing Boeing in the race to be the world's biggest planemaker, claiming over $72 billion dollars worth of ord...

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Pennsylvania Man Demolished Basement Wall To Remove Airplane Project

The Patriot-News | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Allen Township, Video, Weird News, Weird Pennsylvania, Airplane Kit, Airplane, Dan Reeves, Weird News News

Dan Reeves and his airplane are getting close to the wild blue yonder. Reeves got his pilot’s license a year ago, and Wednesday he hauled th...

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Cops: Drunk Man Opened Fire At Airplane

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Shooting, Phoenix, Randon Reid, Airplane, Slidepollajax, Deer Valley Airport, Mugshot, Dumb Criminals, Arizona, Driving Under the Influence, Weird Arizona, Weird Crime, Weird News News

This suspect gives new meaning to the term "flight risk." Police in Arizona have locked up a man who allegedly shot an airplane while it was parked...

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Man Who Tried To Barge Into Airplane Cockpit Denied Bail

AP | By TERRY COLLINS | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Rageh Almoraissi, Yemen, James Larson, California, Rageh Al-Murisi, Elise Becker, Osama Bin Laden Death, San-Francisco-International-Airport, Airplane, Paul Howard, American Airlines, New York, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Allahu Akbar, Larry-Wright, Cockpit, American Airlines Flight 1561, Vallejo, Elizabeth Falk, Airlines, San Francisco, Vallejo California, Los Angeles News

SAN FRANCISCO -- A Yemen native who disrupted a San Francisco-bound flight was portrayed by prosecutors Tuesday as a dangerous and erratic passenger w...

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Cargo Handler Sentenced To Life For JFK Bomb Plot

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jfk Bomb Plot Trinidad, Jfk Bomb Plotter, Travel, Jfk Bomb Plot, Ny News, Terrorism, Airplane, Travel News, New York News

NEW YORK — An aging former cargo handler was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for hatching a plot to make John F. Kennedy International Airpo...

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I'll Have the Can, Hold the Cups

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airplane Travel, Plastic Waste, Airplanes, Recycling, Corporate Responsibility Report, Southwest Airlines, Plastic-Waste, Paper-Waste, Waste, Delta Air Lines, Plastic, Delta Airlines, Plastic Cups, Northwest Airlines, Flight Attendant, Plastic Pollution, Corporate Sustainability, US Airways, United Airlines, Airplane, Plastic Bottles, Delta Northwest, Napkins, Airline Industry, Paper Napkins, Delta Northwest Merger, Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability, Plastics, Paper Waste, In-Flight, Soda Cups, Corporate Responsibility Reports, Plastic-Pollution, Reuse, In Flight, Airlines, Green News
Jennifer Schwab

Tell the flight attendants you want just the can, no napkin, next time you need a shot of carbonated caffeine while in the air. Why use so many plastic cups, and what happens to them when the plane lands?

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