Aviation
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A dangerous stunt is carried live on Chinese TV -- and works
The sky is falling! No, really.
Who do you call if you're hustled off a plane by cops?
Observers from Beijing to Berlin marvel at Americans' submission to authority
'Are we memorializing the terrorists with our anti-terrorist actions?'
How ten years of 'permanent-fear' thinking has changed America
Why Vance Gilbert was pulled off the plane: more hypotheses
A musician makes a flight crew suspicious. How can we know what was in their minds?
What's that book you're reading, sir? Is it about ... biplanes?
Class all the way, in aviation taste as in politics and personal life
There are lots of things to lose sleep about. This is not one.
An experienced international Boeing 767 captain for a U.S. airline writes in to say: let's look at the training of that Air France crew
An unusually beautiful perspective on the landscape that most people never see
One of the pilots is a serving U.S. Senator; the other is an aviatrix who flies from a suburban grass strip. Will the same rules apply to both?
Readers agree on an answer: let Congress feel the effects of its indolence
America from above
To take your mind off earthbound frustrations, three minutes in the sky
It's fine to be upset about Chinese dominance. Except when the concerns are silly.
'The law? That's just for grunts.'
"I did nothing wrong" -- well, except for that part about nearly landing on top of a work crew