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Flying can be a nerve-racking experience. As if dealing with long lines and TSA agents with a penchant for inappropriate touching aren't bad enough, you also get to quietly wonder if yours is the plane that will malfunction in some horrific manner.
Politics Buzz Well that was nice of him! Here's Mitt Romney showering the press with Baked Lays and Sun Chips.
TV Buzz Alec Baldwin brilliantly defends his airplane incident on Weekend Update.
An FBC-1 “Flying Leopard” fighter jet crashed during an air show in southwestern China on late Friday morning, injuring one pilot and leaving another pilot unaccounted for. You can see the pilot eject at 0:32 before the plane goes up in flames. (via.)
I suppose anything’s worth a shot these days to get people to tune into network television.
A random sorority sister gives a pretty thorough tour of The Donald’s 757, fully-loaded with Rolls Royce engines, seat belts plated in 24-karat gold, and a 57-inch plasma screen with surround sound. She avoids showing the gas tank, though, since the plane is obviously fueled by impoverished children’s souls.
I don't know what's more frightening: Sharing a flight with that unwanted, winged passenger or witnessing a resurgence of Samuel L. Jackson references across the Web.
Culture Buzz Robert Vietze of Vermont was taken into custody by Port Authority officers at JFK airport in New York yesterday after he nearly got into a mid-flight fight with the father of an 11-year-old girl. Why was the father so upset? We'll let the New York Post set the scene.
Malaysia Airlines recently banned babies from flying first class. This is the next logical step.
Movie Buzz There is apparently a “Jive” setting in the language section of DVD players. The subtitles magically transform translated jive back to original jive. That's some “Inception” level technology right there. I can dig it.
Culture Buzz Inspired by Andrew Sullivan’s airplane window picture series, here's a very large collection of awesome pictures taken out of airplane windows. I need to go on a vacation.
Once someone yells “Throw them all into first,” we have an uprising on our hands. A very fluffy, low impact uprising, but an uprising nonetheless.
The guy on the right entered an airplane's bathroom mid-flight and emerged as the guy on the left. Air Canada was not amused.
If you take all the jokes out of Airplane!, you end up with a 14 minute melodrama that's actually not half bad. It's not the same without Shirley though.
In honor of the 30th anniversary of Airplane!, here's a behind the scenes look at the making of one of the movie's most popular scenes, “Jive Talk”.
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A 20-year-old Romanian looking for work hid in the wheel well of a jet in Vienna and survived a 90-minute flight to London, police said Wednesday.
There is some pretty advanced aerodynamics happening here that I can't even begin to understand.
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Just as Congress and President Obama signed a bill ending the production of F-22 fighter jets, Lockheed Martin announced their new jet today, the F 35 Joint Strike Fighter.