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Harris/Walz Boeing 737 Makes Debut As Presidential Race Heats Up

The Harris/Walz Boeing 737-800 made its debut at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport on Sept 1, 2024. Photo: Daniël Cronk

The 2024 US Presidential campaign is in full swing. Presidential and vice presidential candidates are criss-crossing the country to make their pitch to voters. This year, both vice presidential candidates…

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Boeing Starliner docked at the ISS. Astronaut Butch Wilmore reported odd noises coming from the spacecraft's speakers this past weekend. Image: NASA

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Boeing Starliner Making Weird Noises While Docked at ISS

The troubled spacecraft is back in the news for another odd reason. This time, its due to a series of weird noises coming from the speaker of the Boeing Starliner…

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Miami International Airport Highlights shoddy repair job as an accomplishment: Image: MIA Facebook page. Also includes a photo of a man wrapped in luggage wrap. Image: @onlyinDade

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What in the Weird Is Going On At Miami International Airport?

Long Lines, Failing Infrastructure, and Viral Stunts keep Miami International Airport Weird Miami International Airport has always been a unique airport. It features a host of international carriers has regularly…

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Lufthansa Is Your Best Bet To Fly on A 747 in 2024

The Boeing 747, affectionately called the Queen of the Skies, is an engineering masterpiece. With its distinctive hump that features a double decker cabin, four engines and graceful sweeping wings,…

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A Spirit Airlines Airbus A320neo waits at the gate | IMAGE: Spirit Airlines via Facebook

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Spirit Airlines Goes Classy With Business Class and more

This isn’t a joke. Spirit Airlines today unveiled a new fare structure, business class, and overall strategy as it looks to emerge from its failed merger attempt with JetBlue. The…

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REX resting at Wagga Wagga Airport. Image: Bidgee CC 2.0

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REX Australia Enters Administration, All 737 Flights Cancelled

Australia discount airline REX has entered voluntary administration. The airline flies a fleet of Boeing 737-800 aircraft for Austrialian domestic routes and Saab 340s on regional routes. All flights that…

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Southwest Airlines arrives at Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport. Image: Thomas Del Coroa

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Southwest Airlines Ditches Open Seating, Adds Red Eye Flights

Southwest Airlines announced today that they are ditching open seating in favor of assigned seats. In a press release, the airline stated, “After listening carefully to Customers and conducting extensive…

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Falcon-9 production floor at SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne, CA. Photo Credit: SpaceX

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Musk Says He’s Moving SpaceX to Texas Because of This Reason

SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk announced today that he is moving his companies’ headquarters from California to Texas. SpaceX was originally founded in 2002 by Musk with…

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Dude Perfect spent the day with the C-17 sqaudron at Altus AFB. Image: Dude Perfect Youtube Screengrab

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Dude Perfect Guys Drop Darts, Basketballs from C-17

Dude Perfect, one of the top YouTube group of creators with over 60M followers, has outdone itself with its latest video. The group is known for unique viral videos and…

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Emirates new safety video continues their focus on professionalism in the cabin. Image: Emirates

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Emirates Safety Video Keeps Focus On Safety

Over the past decade, airline safety presentations have mostly moved from live demonstrations to video. As a ploy to make people pay attention to the videos, airlines have introduced more…

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Image of Boeing Sonic Cruiser. Image: Boeing

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Sonic Cruiser: The Ultimate Paper Airplane

The Boeing Sonic Cruiser, a concept aircraft that never left the drawing board, has been the subject of much speculation in the aviation industry. Proposed in the early 2000s, this…

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A single engine Cessna barely survived turning around in a box canyon in Colorado on July 4th. Image: Jason Dunn, Facebook.

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Cessna Barely Avoids Canyon After Failed Ridge Crossing

Ok, we’ll admit it, the photo might look like click-bait. But I don’t know any other way to describe this video than miraculous. The pilot and passengers in the Cessna…

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Harris/Walz Boeing 737 Makes Debut As Presidential Race Heats Up

Boeing Starliner Making Weird Noises While Docked at ISS

What in the Weird Is Going On At Miami International Airport?

Lufthansa Is Your Best Bet To Fly on A 747 in 2024

Spirit Airlines Goes Classy With Business Class and more

REX Australia Enters Administration, All 737 Flights Cancelled

Southwest Airlines Ditches Open Seating, Adds Red Eye Flights

Musk Says He’s Moving SpaceX to Texas Because of This Reason

Dude Perfect Guys Drop Darts, Basketballs from C-17

Emirates Safety Video Keeps Focus On Safety

Sonic Cruiser: The Ultimate Paper Airplane

Cessna Barely Avoids Canyon After Failed Ridge Crossing

AvGeekery Goes Flying to Refuel the Thunderbirds!

American Airlines Prohibits Crew from Ejecting Travelers Over Attire, Odor

Delta Airbus A350 Snaps Off Tail Of CRJ-900 at Atlanta Airport