Climb Aboard The Plane Of The Future
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At a skunk works in Seattle, Boeing engineers look to Wal Mart, Disney and Starbucks for ideas.
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MOJAVE, CALIF: Completing the first leg of a quest for a $10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday morning in a flight that had equal measures of white-knuckle moments and triumph.
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A company plans to offer airplane flights that simulate weightlessness in space. Zero Gravity Corp. starting Oct. 9 will offer twice-a-month, $2,950 flights on planes that carry 27 passengers
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We left Quebec City at 6 AM on our way to New York City via Montreal. It was my first train ride. I've been traveling by plane in the US for 30 years, and have seen the food go from reasonable to horrible, airline employees go from happy to surly, airport security go from somewhat inconvenient to completely ridiculous and the overall experience of plane travel go from enjoyable to barely endurable. That's really what airline travel has become, a barely endurable way to get from point A to point B. It is my hope that train travel will be a "eureka" experience.
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When Boeing Co.'s new 787 Dreamliner jet takes to the skies sometime this winter, it will represent an envelope-pushing engineering triumph for everything from fuel efficiency to advanced composite materials.
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Strapped in, flat on their backs, passengers will accelerate to 4000km/h in just 25 seconds. For no more than five minutes they will float about, 130km above planet Earth.
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Taipei plans to have a citywide connection by 2005. Also: MIT creates a voice operated plane that takes audio commands & hellip;.  Basketball players use video games to hone their skills & hellip;. and more.
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The use of advance technologies are giving a new generation of toys extraordinary capabilities to fly, float, walk and roll â almost always inexpensively â in ways unimaginable just a few years ago.
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If you want to browse the Web at one, or even six miles high, your choices of airlines are expanding.
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It was a staple of 1960s science fiction that the future would involve flying cars and holidays on the moon. While the mass-production flying car hasn&#39;t yet hit the showrooms, the prospects for space tourism have taken a few steps closer.
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LONDON-September 27, 2004 - A ticket may soon be all that separates you from a dream voyage to the final frontier. British entrepreneur Richard Branson says Virgin company plans to start offering commercial space flights over the next few years.
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Is it a bird? A plane? A planet-levelling asteroid?
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Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost airline, might introduce in-flight gaming.
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Adventurer Steve Fossett is set to fly an experimental jet around the world without stopping or refuelling.
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Luxury air travel is reaching new heights but German passengers are to be treated to an opulent experience on the ground.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA's next shuttle astronauts to fly, a blend of veteran spaceflyers and rookies, are in the final month of training for a March construction flight to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Nervous fliers use pills to round the edges of jet travel.