17th Mar 2010
The Coolest Fictional Planes
X-Men - Blackbird
The Blackbird is was based on the SR-71 Blackbird and is also know as the X Jet. The Blackbird doesn't have any weaponry apart from a stealth mode. In the X-Men movies, Storm uses her power to create tornados to try and destroy the heat seeking
9th Mar 2010
Airline Secrets for Cheap Fares
Cheap fares are still being made available by many airlines. Finding the price that you want to pay for your next adventure may not be easy, but there are deals to be had if you are willing to put in some effort to find that fare which fits
2nd Mar 2010
Airline Wi-Fi: What You Need to Know
In the business world, you don’t exist without a Wi-Fi signal. Take a look around you on your next flight - high-ranking execs pumping their legs, tapping their armrests, wondering just what they’re missing with their Blackberrys dead to the world. Ninja fights will break out in the
23rd Feb 2010
How Chuck Yeager Broke The Sound Barrier
Major General Charles 'Chuck' Elwood Yeager was born on 13th February 1923 in Myra, Lincoln County, West Virginia. He is a World War II legend and test pilot, famous for being the first person to ever travel fast than sound. But what led to his historic event?
Yeager's family were not
16th Feb 2010
Value of Airport Security
The airline industry may have changed its standards but that does not necessarily translate to airports that are more secure than before. Tighter security methods may have only succeeded in lengthening the time a thirty-minute flight takes to more than two hours. More airport security did lower the
9th Feb 2010
The Boeing 787 - A New Kind of Plane
The Boeing 787 hopes to take the experience of air travel back to the time when it was something that people looked forward to doing. The trend in the airline industry for many years was price reduction. More seats in a plane meant lower prices for passengers. The tight quarters
2nd Feb 2010
How to suddenly wake up the passenger next to you on a plane without being hit.
How many times have you been in a situation like this? You obediently get onto the plane, and find your self sandwiched between the person next to the window and the person next to the aisle. After the excitement of take-off, and perhaps especially after the refreshment trolley has done
25th Jan 2010
Luggage Essentials for Flying
As airlines strive to keep fuel costs to a minimum, hold luggage restrictions are becoming more stringent. On a weight basis, airlines can range from a miserly 15 kg to a more generous 60 kg per person, although opting for 'piece allowances' may turn out to be more flexible (most
19th Jan 2010
10 Vital 100ml Liquids to Take on a Flight
All airlines in the age of the suicide hijacker are now restricting the amount of liquid passengers are permitted to take with them in their hand-luggage or about their person to 100ml. In other words, you can take several different 100ml containers with different liquids in them with you; you
12th Jan 2010
Travel Guides
It’s very easy these days to research any place which you plan to visit. You just type the name of your intended destination into a search engine and everything is revealed. But before the advent of the internet we had to rely on printed travel guides, and these are still