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Helen Collins knew her 81-year-old husband slumped next to her in the small Cessna was dead. She also knew the plane was fast running out of fuel, and even someone who knew how to fly would be in trouble. She last flew 30 years ago, a few take-offs and landings at her husband’s urging just in case she ever had to take the controls. (via Woman, 80, lands plane after husband collapses: ‘Gas gauge shows nothing’ - chicagotribune.com) should people these old even have a driver’s license?!

Helen Collins knew her 81-year-old husband slumped next to her in the small Cessna was dead. She also knew the plane was fast running out of fuel, and even someone who knew how to fly would be in trouble. She last flew 30 years ago, a few take-offs and landings at her husband’s urging just in case she ever had to take the controls. (via Woman, 80, lands plane after husband collapses: ‘Gas gauge shows nothing’ - chicagotribune.com)

should people these old even have a driver’s license?!

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Minis (the tiny little liquor bottles) happen to fit into your TSA quart sized baggie and are perfectly legal to take through security. A bottle of OJ on the far side of the line and you’re in screwdriver heaven. Although, please be discrete as the US still has insane open container laws.
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Which brings me to my story: Not long after I figured out this loophole, I tossed my baggie full of minis in the x-ray bin and the TSA screener looked at them and gave me a broad grin and said, “Now there’s a man ‘at knows how to fly.” To which I could only grin and nod in agreement. (via The Economist, The Atlantic)

But if you follow the rules, this tip should allow you to mix your aeroplane drinks just how you like them (even in coach!) and save a few dollars, too. Until 2005, bizarre laws made South Carolina the world capital of miniature liquor bottles. In 2012, thanks to Mr Fallows’s tip and the TSA’s three-ounce rule, aircraft might take the title. Prost!

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newsweek: latimes: New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable? The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many. Photo: The X-47B drone. Credit: Chad Slattery, Northrop Grumman Today in things Hollywood totally predicted but for whatever reason those with money and power have chosen to completely ignore. “not accountable” - but that’s the whole point! it’s like a Privateer of the skies, except paid for by the taxpayer :)

newsweek:

latimes:

New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable? The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many.

Photo: The X-47B drone. Credit: Chad Slattery, Northrop Grumman

Today in things Hollywood totally predicted but for whatever reason those with money and power have chosen to completely ignore.

“not accountable” - but that’s the whole point! it’s like a Privateer of the skies, except paid for by the taxpayer :)

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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