A 6-year-old girl named Aarna Gupta from Haryana’s Panchkula has stunned the world with her impeccable memory skills. Recently, she bagged the world record for naming around 93 airlines just by looking at their airplane tails. Not just her memory, but she had to go through the test of time as well in order to…
Admission to the Aviation Academy – Everything You Need To Know Becoming a pilot in the United States is the dream of many students around the world. Indeed, what could be better than traveling across the endless sky while receiving a high salary? In addition, Airbus has estimated the need for 450,000 pilots by 2035,…
Russian scientists have carried out an unprecedented experiment in space. Human interest in astronomy dates back a long time. However, it was not until the 1960s that space exploration programs experienced a major breakthrough. With our growing ambitions to colonize distant planets like Mars, scientists regularly perform zero-gravity experiments. Space is a dangerous area due…
Russia’s troubled Nauka laboratory module has caused a fright when its rockets accidentally fired after docking the with the International Space Station, throwing the station out of position. A few hours after docking, Nauka’s propulsive devices unexpectedly fired, forcing personnel aboard the ISS to fire thrusters on the Russian segment of the station to counter…
British Airways has added extra capacity to the US after seeing bookings almost double within hours of the UK government announcement that vaccinated US arrivals to England would no longer need to quarantine. BA reported US bookings “surged by 95%” following the announcement on Wednesday of the relaxation from August 2, saying it has added…
Alaska Airlines Embraer 170 declared an emergency inbound Seattle. The flight Alaska Airlines #OO3466 – on behalf of Skywest Airlines – has declared an emergency 8 mins from Seattle on Tuesday 27 July 2021. The flight departed from Palm Springs at 13.45 to Seattle. But few mins from landing, pilots of the Embraer 170-200LR (reg.…
London Heathrow northern runway surface repairs. From 2 to 14 August, London Heathrow will change to single runway operations overnight from 20:00, landing on and taking off from the southern runway. This is to accommodate essential surface repair works to our northern runway. The Airport will resume dual runway operations each morning at 06:00 in…
Mile-high marriage onboard a Southwest flight. York, a Southwest Pilot, and Sabrina, a fellow aviation-lover, met in person for the first time at a Southwest ticket counter. As the two began dating, Sabrina would join York’s trips for Southwest on her days off, allowing the two to travel together from city to city. The ceremony…
The United Arab Emirates is creating its own rain using drones that fly into clouds and unleash electrical charges to beat the sweltering 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) heat. The rain is formed using drone technology that gives clouds an electric shock to ‘cajole them’ into clumping together and producing precipitation. The UAE is…
People who are fully vaccinated from the EU and US will not need to quarantine when arriving in England, the BBC has been told. Currently, people who have been fully vaccinated in the UK do not have to isolate when travelling from countries on the amber list, except from France. But that exemption did not…
A San Francisco International Airport spokesperson says all passengers were re-screened after de-boarding but the teen was not allowed back onboard. A United Airlines flight was evacuated ahead of take-off at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday after a teenager sent a picture of an Airsoft gun to other passengers onboard via Airdrop, an iPhone…
The US has tightened its definition of the word “astronaut”. New Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules say astronaut hopefuls must be part of the flight crew and make contributions to space flight safety. That means Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson may not yet be astronauts in the eyes of the US government. These are…
