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...hopes inspired viewers will take steps to bring about change. With each movie release, the company's partner website, Participate. net, provides viewers with a way to get involved. Working in partnership with the a.c.l.u., Channel One, pbs, Salon.com and Satellite Radio, the "Report It Now" campaign (a takeoff on Murrow's 1950s cbs News program See It Now) asks viewers to report important stories ignored or overlooked by the media. The larger purpose, according to the website, is to "compel the media to get back to reporting in the public interest." For North Country, Participant joined forces with...
...Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, designed by Burt Rutan (who also designed the first civilian spacecraft, SpaceShipOne), took off from an airfield in a small town in Kansas; 67 hr. 2 min. 38 sec. and 23,000 miles later, the aviation world had reached another milestone. GlobalFlyer is so light (at takeoff, its weight is 83% fuel) and so aerodynamic (with a 114-ft. wingspan) that it has to use drag parachutes to help it get back down to the ground. Next: On the Move...
...random flights. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) thinks it's high time its security measures reflected those changes. So, as the agency confirmed last week, it is re-evaluating its list of prohibited items, a move supported by veteran security experts. Among the things that may get cleared for takeoff by late January: knitting needles and knives with blades less than 2 in. long. Tweezers, by the way, quietly fell off the list a while back, as did cigarette lighters...
Pilots joke that airline flying is hours of boredom interrupted by seconds of excitement during takeoff and landing. But they add, that's why they get paid so much-and train so extensively...
...emergency landing of JetBlue flight 292 at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday showed off that training. The landing gear on the Airbus A320 airplane got stuck on takeoff out of southern California headed for New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. As TV networks locked on to the stricken plane as it circled over Los Angeles and viewers stomachs knotted as they understood that they might be preparing to watch passengers fly to their deaths, the pilots discussed how to handle the problem with company headquarters in New York and technicians from the airplane's manufacturer in France...