MetaFilter posts tagged with flying and brokenlink

Alpe d'Huez flying man

tellurian — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:05:47 -0800

Henri Giraud was the first to land a plane on Mont Aiguille [41.4 MB mpg], on August 27th 1957 and on Mont Blanc [32.2 MB mpg] on June 23rd 1960. [more inside]

Stunts

growabrain — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:37:05 -0800

Haute Voltage stunt flight (Direct .mpg. Bonus if you read Russian)

Que pensaient-ils?

Vidiot — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:00:32 -0800

French police on Sunday ended their practice of hiding plastic explosives in air passengers' luggage to train bomb-sniffing dogs after one such bag got lost, possibly ending up on a flight out of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.

WTF were they thinking? Isn't there a better way to train the dogs without making innocent people unwittingly carry plastique?

poorhouse — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:06:59 -0800

The Energizer Bunny does Delta Next time you pack your adult toys, fully loaded, in your luggage, remember that they may discharge at the most inconvenient time...

semmi — Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:04:39 -0800

Would you fly with them? Having the information, whatever you think it proves, would you get on the plane to find out what's behind it?

skallas — Sat, 29 Dec 2001 11:09:51 -0800

Two men are flying a Cessna from South Africa to Alaska. "When I'm feeling romantic, I like to think of us as a modern-day Lewis and Clark (or maybe Huck and Jim), two guys on a once-in-a-lifetime aerial road trip. But there's more to it than that. Amid the mundane details and daily routine inside the Cessna cabin, I expect there to be unforeseen revelations and epiphanies – about the world seen this unique way and perhaps about ourselves." [check out the ultra-cool map]

Oriole Adams — Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:57:20 -0800

Air rage terrorist in the waiting, or cranky old man? I can understand flight crews taking every caution with their captive audience, but will the new "zero tolerance" policies make for an airline police state, where shoddy treatment is the norm, and passengers dare not speak out Or Else?

fluxcreative — Mon, 09 Jul 2001 07:32:52 -0800

Those darn airmen in their flying contraptions... Interested in hearing other's opinions on this. If I have an airplane should I be able to fly wherever I want to, or should property owners be able to erect an invisible fence 40,000 feet high around their property to keep airplane owners away? Also, if I can keep people with noisy airplanes from flying close to my house, can I also outlaw people with noisy motorcyles from riding on country roads near my home?