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...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder If you think all the excitement has gone out of flying, try spending an afternoon with Fighter Combat International. Based at Williams Gateway, a small airport in Mesa, Arizona, the company offers flights piloted by former U.S. top guns and air-combat instructors for $345 and up. You'll climb into a German-made Extra 300L aircraft - a plane purpose-built for aerobatic stunts - and hang on tight as your pilot takes you on knuckle-whitening maneuvers at speeds of up to 400 km/h. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Heads | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...think all the excitement has gone out of flying, try spending an afternoon with Fighter Combat International (fightercombat.com). Based at Williams Gateway?a small airport in Mesa, Arizona?the company offers 45-minute flights piloted by former U.S. top guns and air-combat instructors, for $345 and up. You'll climb into a German-made Extra 300L aircraft?a plane purpose-built for aerobatic stunts?and hang on tight as your pilot takes you on knuckle-whitening maneuvers at speeds of up to 250 m.p.h. There's even a chance to engage in mock dogfights, complete with the sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diversions | 11/12/2005 | See Source »

...that? Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others--like the Shipps--need something to get their pilot light lit? And why do others never get the flame of ambition going? Is there a family anywhere that doesn't have its overachievers and underachievers--its Jimmy Carters and Billy Carters, its Jeb Bushes and Neil Bushes--and find itself wondering how they all could have come splashing out of exactly the same gene pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...works that are out of print. Eventually, she said, Google would scan all books—including those under copyright protection—but that it “would never show a full page [of text] without the right from a copyright holder.” During the pilot phase of the project, which is nearly complete, Harvard allowed Google to scan only 40,000 books from its collections. However, Longbrake wrote that Harvard is “encouraged by the positive results to date” and that it is “in active discussions concerning...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Google Resumes Scans | 11/4/2005 | See Source »

...didn't; with the chairman, you never knew. But even if not, the joint interview in Cairo was still possible. From Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer came word that if the Cairo interview didn't happen, Rabin would see us Monday afternoon, the 13th, in Jerusalem. When TIME's pilot, captain Tony Armstrong, asked where he was flying next, he was advised to watch CNN; if the meeting in Cairo and the peace agreement were definitely on, the team might stay put for the joint interview. Otherwise, it looked like Tunisia. After a night of no clear news, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Jan. 3, 1994 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

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