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Avoiding airplane collisions at airports could come down to alerts

Travel NewsSeptember 28, 202530Views

ABOARD A HONEYWELL TEST PLANE — Aerospace giant Honeywell is building new cockpit alerts that developers say will give airline pilots more precious time to react to hazards at airports. Honeywell senior test pilot Capt. Kirk Vining late last month put the alerts — called Surface Alert, or SURF-A — to the…

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Boeing airplane orders jump ahead of Paris Air Show

Boeing 737 aircraft fuselages are pictured at the company's Renton factory in Renton, Washington, on April 15, 2025. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Boeing 's gross orders for new airplanes hit 303 last month, the most since December 2023, as the company makes strides against its rival Airbus and works…

June 10, 202540Views

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Boeing to resume airplane deliveries to China, CEO says

Boeing Co. 737 Max fuselages at the company's manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, on April 15, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing 's airplane deliveries to China will resume next month after handovers were paused amid a trade war with the Trump administration, CEO Kelly Ortberg said Thursday, as he brushed…

May 29, 202551Views

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15+ Real Travel Details in 1980’s “Airplane!” That Seem Fake if You Weren’t Alive Then

Younger travelers surely know that airplane cabins, like many areas of public life in the late 1970s, were once divided into sections for smokers and non-smokers. (Usually, the smokers had to sit at the back of the plane.) So this gag about a "smoking" ticket was almost a gimme for the writers. Unpleasant fact about…

December 31, 202467Views

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How to Get Rid of Airplane Ear? You Could Try This “Hot Cup” Trick from TikTok

Clogged ears on a flight can be annoying at best and acutely painful at worst. A viral TikTok clip claims to have the solution. Airplane ear, as the condition is known (or ear barotrauma if you want to impress your ENT), happens as a result of sudden changes in air pressure acting on your middle…

December 25, 202472Views

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Can You Really Fly with a Gun in the USA? Or Bring a Toy Gun on an Airplane? We Hate to Tell You…

In the first 9 months of 2024, the Transportation Security Administration intercepted more than 5,000 firearms at airport security checkpoints across the United States, the federal agency has reported. That means TSA agents discover a firearm among a passenger's carry-on belongings about 18 times a day. And get this: The weapon is loaded, according to…

December 7, 202462Views

Disruptions to Airplane GPS Systems Are on the Rise—What Passengers Should Know

If there’s one thing most of us take for granted in boarding a commercial aircraft, it’s that the plane is headed where we expect it to go. If you’re flying from New York to Miami, it should be safe to assume the plane will land in South Florida. But in recent months there have been…

April 29, 2024155Views