Young student's record flight nears end
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Two stops before completing a journey that would make him the youngest person to fly solo around the Earth, Barrington Irving glided into Houston on Saturday with a message for the roughly 50 students who cheered his arrival.
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Last year around this time, Phil Kessel was still doing homework. Still attending classes. Still an 18-year-old student at the University of Minnesota.
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A 22-year-old was killed during a college outing Wednesday when his paraglider flew into a 22,000-volt high-tension power line, police said.
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Students at Aviation High School learn in the shadow of the massive jetliners this region has produced for decades. Holding classes at Boeing Field and the Museum of
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Ryan Giggs leads the Wales squad off the diverted plane A Boeing 737 taking the Wales football squad from Cardiff to Prague has made an emergency landing in Bournemouth after the windscreen cracked.
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The company will begin payments ranging from $25 toward a future flight to a round-trip ticket to passengers kept waiting by the airlineâs own mistakes.
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PEORIA, Ill. -- The 37-year-old computer science student was racing against a deadline. Just one day after picking up his visa from the U.S. Embassy in Qatar, he boarded a plane with his wife and five small children. The family flew to Chicago, caught a night's sleep at an airport hotel, then...
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A homeless teenager who hid in the landing gear of a passenger plane survived a 700-kilometre flight across south-western China but his companion fell and probably died, state media reported on Friday.
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TRANSATLANTIC travellers could be in the US in minutes rather than hours after a supersonic jet screamed into the record books. The unmanned NASA jet reached speeds of almost 7,000 mph
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Police arrested a 19-year-old student at gunpoint at Boston's Logan International Airport on Friday in a scare sparked by what authorities thought was a bomb strapped to her body but she claimed was artwork.
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OSLO, Norway - A bored 12-year-old boy passing time by trying out his new balaclava triggered a terrorism alert at a southern Norway airport.
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LOS ANGELES: Nasa delayed a planned flight of an unmanned hypersonic jet designed to reach a record speed of Mach 10, 11,263 kilometre per hour.
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By Mike Swift, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 16--The next time you endure a long, unpleasant flight to some  far-flung destination, consider this: You might feel as if time is slowing  down. But in fact, you'll actually be younger when you land than if you had  not taken the trip.
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NINE years have passed since Stelios Haji-Ioannou waved off easyJet - s inaugural flight from Luton to Glasgow, with a pledge to bring flying to the masses.
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As a student athlete, being 16 is all about balance. You have to juggle school,  sports, friends, family, church, clubs and occasionally sleep
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Press the "buy" button. That's a lesson I learned at a high cost _ in money and emotion _ on a recent Friday morning.  It was just after 7 a.m. when my wife and I arrived at O'Hare International Airport for our American Airlines flight to Boston to see our son graduate from college.
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NASA&#39;s X-43 unmanned aircraft hit a record 6,600 mph Tuesday in the program&#39;s final test flight, providing researchers with data for use on future ultra-high-speed aircraft and spacecraft.