Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) No one enjoys enduring an airport layover. However, very few people go as far as to threaten to blow up an international airport over the lack of direct flights to their preferred destination. As KLAS reported, an angry passenger in Las Vegas on Monday not only said he wanted to … Read more
JD Vance’s Vice Presidential campaign has been one for the history books for all the wrong reasons, and we can now add “entering restricted airspace” to his list of accomplishments. You see, the Ohio Senator and Republican VP hopeful’s Boeing 737-800 accidentally violated the Prohibited Airspace 56 over Washington, D.C. a few days ago as … Read more
Photo: Brendan Hoffman (Getty Images) Two airliners almost collided on a runway at Reagan National Airport just outside of Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was cleared to taxi across a runway, while a JetBlue Embraer ERJ-190 was about to take off on the same runway. WTOP reports the potential disaster … Read more
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) It seems like a few Republican lawmakers want gold slab-serif lettering to welcome Americans flying into the nation’s capital. A bill introduced in the House of Representatives aims to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after former President Donald Trump. The change isn’t likely to become a reality as the Democrats … Read more
Living near an airport can be everything from dangerous to downright disruptive. People who usually live near these airports and their busy areas of traffic often try to get things at the airport changed, but it’s usually unsuccessful. One household in Washington D.C., though, took things to a whole new level by issuing over 7,000 … Read more
I recently had a conversation with someone who argued Legos should only ever be built to the instructions of the kit, you should never dismantle them and make what your heart desires. That’s ridiculous and is clearly not a belief held by Richard Paules, who has just thrown the covers off an incredible Lego replica … Read more
Supersonic airliners never became as common as airlines and government officials hoped.Photo: Victor Drees/Daily Express/Hulton Archive (Getty Images) When supersonic flight was set to transform passenger air travel in the late 1960s, Miami-Dade County had grand ambitions of becoming the center of commercial aviation’s fledgling intercontinental network. Local government wanted to construct the world’s largest … Read more
