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FAA Computer Problem Snarls Flights
Nov 19th, 2009 - New York Times
WASHINGTON — Flights over much of the eastern United States were delayed Thursday by a pre-dawn failure in a fairly new communications system, which led to the shutdown...
Flights delayed; FAA probing computer glitch
Nov 19th, 2009 - MSNBC
The Federal Aviation Authority is investigating computer glitches that are causing widespread delays at some of the nation's biggest airports on Thursday. According to airline and federal officials...
FAA: Flights Delayed Across Country Because of Computer Problems
Nov 19th, 2009 - FOXNews
DEVELOPING: A computer glitch is causing flights to be delayed nationwide Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed. The FAA computer systems are experiencing problems retrieving flight plans...
Shuttle Atlantis Bringing Oversized Spare Parts to International Space Station
Nov 17th, 2009 - DailyTech
NASA's workhorse heads for the ISS
Despite being fundedonly through the end of 2015, there is widespread politicalsupport domestically and internationally to extend the ISS'operations through 2020and beyond...Many ways to honor troops
Nov 10th, 2009 - MiamiHerald
Acouple weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her hometown of Salisbury, N.C...
Flights videos from YouTube:
1:38FAA's Flight Plan Meldown
The FAA's computer flight plan system failed for a few hours setting into motion a "ripple effect" that delayed flights nationwide. Mark Strassmann reports.
1:38FAA's Flight Plan Meldown
The FAA's computer flight plan system failed for a few hours setting into motion a "ripple effect" that delayed flights nationwide. Mark Strassmann reports.
3:55Flight of the Conchords- Business Time
Flight of the Conchords performing their song "Business Time."
3:57Flight Of The Conchords - The Humans Are Dead
The mighty folk comedy duo New Zealand's Flight Of The Conchords proform their song "Humans Are Dead" Enjoy
Flights from WikiPedia:
Flight is the process by which an object moves either through the air, or movement beyond earth's atmosphere (as in the case of spaceflight), by aerodynamically generating lift, propulsive thrust or aerostatically using buoyancy, or by simple ballistic movement.
Humans, although not apparently other animals, have managed to construct lighter than air vehicles that fly due to their buoyancy in air.
Some things that fly are not pushed forwards through the air and can only glide, for example flying squirrels, this is termed gliding. Others have a source of useful forward power and can climb, this is termed powered flight.
The most successful groups of living things that fly are insects, birds, and bats. The extinct Pterosaurs, an order of reptiles contemporaneous with the dinosaurs, were also very successful flying animals. Each of these groups' wings evolved independently. The wings of the flying vertebrate groups are all based on the forelimbs, but differ significantly in structure; those of insects are hypothesized to be highly-modified versions of structures that form gills in most other groups of arthropods.
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