We all know about the life jackets under our aircraft seats and the oxygen masks we hope will drop down from above in a disaster. But did you know there was a secret handrail below the overhead...
CIA warned of threat of 'explosive airplane' years before 9/11, documents show
The spy agency released 71 declassified presidential briefings, with one showing it had thought Al Qaeda's plans were 'widely known' by extremists.
The Airplane Hack I've Done Ever Since an Older Lady Told Me To
This is worth remembering for your next flight!
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“We’ve Been Told There’s Another Plane in the Air and It’s Heading Here”
A 9/11 remembrance and thank you.
Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible. Then Came a Startling Clue. (Published 2019)
Robert Ballard has found the Titanic and other famous shipwrecks. This month his crew started trying to solve one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries.
The U.S. Army's Top Secret Arctic City Under the Ice! "Camp Century" Restored Classified Film
Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change (Published 2019)
A system that doomed two flights was expected to engage only rarely and originally used two sensors. Critical decisions were based on those factors even when they no longer applied, employees said.
The passenger
"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, an inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul."--Dust jacket flap
When the Scientists Showed Up: Notes from ATmosphereConf 2026 - Nightflight
The Dragnet
How a man accused of million-dollar fraud uncovered a never before seen, secret surveillance device
The Air Force Is Having To Reverse Engineer Parts Of Its Own Stealth Bomber
Twenty-one years after the last Spirit was delivered, the Air Force is working out how to build the exotic spare parts the bomber requires.
PostSecret
Discover true secrets that have never been shared. Explore the surprising stories behind the secrets.
Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant
The governments of Australia, Germany, the UK and the US are destroying your privacy. Some people don't see the problem...
Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant
The governments of Australia, Germany, the UK and the US are destroying your privacy. Some people don't see the problem...
Ultimate Walking Skeleton Cowboy
Ultimate Walking Skeleton Cowboy: For Halloween, I wanted to make something that looked impossible: a seven-foot skeleton walking around on its own, with an apparently hollow rib cage and nobody inside. The secret is that I am directly behind it, hidden between two layers of a black…
