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...also a café on board, flat-screen TVs, free wi-fi and a viewing platform on the left wing. Jumbo Hostel's 25 rooms are shared, as are the bathrooms in the corridors, but there is one private room with an en suite bathroom available in the cockpit. Beds start at $45 per night. Arlanda Airport, Stockholm...
...Pilot's Pen This illuminated pen was originally intended for pilots who need to jot down notes in a dark cockpit. But when designer and pilot Robert Cullinan put the product on Amazon.com "just to see what would happen," the raves and orders took off - from theater critics, night nurses and anyone wanting to avoid the wrath of a sleeping plane mate. Two LED lights, powered by one AAA battery (which lasts up to 20 hours), are fitted inside the cone of the Pilot's Pen, so the light is close to your writing surface and casts an even glow...
...radical idea is to teach novices to fly a modern jet airliner in a little over a year. Unlike the traditional route to the cockpit, this course places limited emphasis on flying real planes; instead it focuses on training in simulators and teamwork. "Each person finds different things difficult," Stanley says of the challenge of handling the switches, knobs and screens in front of him and the responsibility for a hundred lives behind. "For some it will be memory, for others it will be handling skill. I had never driven a car, so motor skills - handling skills - were not very...
...began striking Afghan targets with 500-lb. bombs guided to their prey by a new targeting pod slung under the plane's belly. Known as the Sniper, the pod sends long-range, high-resolution video--it can tell whether an Afghan on the ground is armed--right into the cockpit. Such weapons systems allow the U.S. military to rain steel on the Taliban from on high, even when troops aren't in the area. The Pentagon doesn't release statistics of the insurgents killed, but the military regards air strikes as the smart strategy in Afghanistan...
...prowess, at least according to his Aunt Lilly, lies in a substance the precocious Olympic champion has consumed for years: the mouth-watering yellow yams she still cooks for him at Miss Lilly's Bar and Shop in Trelawny parish, deep in the hilly heartland of Jamaica known as Cockpit Country. "You can count on that," Lilly Bolt, 56, told TIME by telephone from the patio of her restaurant, where Usain also likes to dance to roots reggae music. And Bolt's performance-enhancing yams should not be confused with any kind of drug: "I don't even use fertilizer...