Word: inflight
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...Forget cosmetic changes like increased seat width?in the quest for more inflight space, why not do away with three-quarters of the passengers altogether? That seems to be the philosophy of Eos Airlines (eosairlines.com), the latest carrier on the North Atlantic route. Departing from London Stanstead, Eos's converted Boeing 757 aircraft carry just 48 passengers on the flight to New York (standard 757s hold over 200). These pampered few will dine on nouvelle cuisine and watch first-run movies on personal DVD players, while recumbent on fully flat, 78-inch-long beds. The bed is the centerpiece...
...enough of lame inflight entertainment? The AV340 video and music player from French firm Archos might just be the answer to mile-high boredom. Its 40-GB hard disk can easily store 30 feature films to watch on its 9.7-cm color screen, and still leave room for a few thousand MP3 tracks. All this in a package that weighs just 0.35 kg. The Archos ($1,000) can record straight from TV or hi-fi, so you don't have to waste time compressing audio and video files on your computer. And when you land, you can hook...
...about a hijacking. A pilot from another plane asked ATC, "What company?", meaning what airline was involved. "Standby" came the response from ATC. Then a few seconds of suspense - and fear. United is the only airline in the U.S. that pipes the cockpit's radio transmissions through to its inflight audio system via channel nine. The flight attendants on the United plane called through the inflight phone into the cockpit to tell the pilot that a passenger had been listening on channel 9 and wanted to know what was going...
...Inflight,” Grimonprez’s startling video lounge installation about airplane hijacking, is one of four main exhibitions at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. Released in conjunction with the 2001 Boston Cyberarts Festival, these expressive digital presentations again pose the controversial question, “What...
...airline flight magazine compiled by Grimonprez is (conveniently) titled “Inflight.” However, the picture on the cover makes it clear that whatever is inflight will not remain so; the symbolic airplane is inverted and its nose is pointing to the floor. Also on the cover is a picture of an airplane exploding. This picture, with its bright cartoon-like colors and grainy television texture, is representative of the rather graphic pictures in the entire magazine...