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...Continent. Cedric, an 18-year-old Swiss student, smokes dope regularly with his friends on trains, in the streets and parks of Geneva, even during high school recess. "The teachers know about it but don't say anything," he says. In Marseilles two months ago, 20 crewmen on the aircraft carrier Foch had consumed cannabis so flagrantly on board that a military court had to punish them but handed out only suspended sentences. Judging by the fragrant smoke wafting around the ship, the crewmen estimated that two-thirds of their shipmates were equally guilty...
...alone. The airline let me accompany her onto the plane and get her settled in her seat. I had scanned the flight crew for signs of fatigue or drunkenness, introduced myself to the flight attendants and inspected the wings to make sure they were attached to the aircraft before my daughter looked up at me and said, "Mom, get off the plane...
...airline partnerships, Swissair has been selling non-core assets in hopes of lightening its debt load. Swissair ended its 10% stake in Austrian Airlines and sold its hotel division Swiss?tel to the Raffles group for $247 million. Corti said he expects to raise a further $1 billion by selling aircraft and leasing them back. But he also noted that the debt had fallen just slightly, so it was still around $4.4 billion at the end of June (its equity in December was only about $720 million...
...Some of what US Airways wants to do, like exchanging larger aircraft for smaller regional jets, makes sense - except that that move comes about a decade too late. While United and Delta were spending millions in the 90?s on integrating regional jets into their operations, US Airways was twiddling its thumbs. Now, just after pilots' unions at those two master carriers have walked away with industry-leading contracts, US Airways is telling its pilots to hunch over and fly smaller planes at less pay. Hardly an enticing offer - for the pilots or their unions - and hardly a promising...
...craft has a 247-foot wingspan and solar panels that power the 14 propellers that keep it aloft, and Tuesday it traveled higher (96,500 feet) than any other non-rocket-powered plane. The possible uses are twofold. NASA hopes that this test will help it to design aircraft that can fly in the thin Martian atmosphere. And some entrepreneurial sorts think that eventually a network of these high-flying birds could serve as low-cost alternatives to communications satellites...