October 3, 2008
Moller International is auctioning its first flying car type aircraft on eBay, saying it is in perfect condition, in the same configuration as it flew during its international press flight and is expected to appreciate in value as production models go on sale. "The M200X was the first flying car type vehicle to successfully demonstrate that it was possible to hover and maneuver a personal VTOL aircraft by someone with virtually no pilot training," the company said in a statement on the auction site.
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September 10, 2008
Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson will not be running in the federal election citing an importunate nosebleed that started in Beijing last month. AFP reported that the hemorrhage was caused by weakened capillaries in his nose as a result of frequent flights and the air in Beijing during the Olympic Games. .
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July 6, 2008
Topics balloons, fly, body, man, flights, satellite, ocean, stress, cross, rose, pop, search, gun, feet, phone, men and money
In a stark contrast of outcomes, two men who attempted to fly hundreds of miles on lawn chairs tied to helium balloons have landed. An Oregon man, Kent Couch, 48, successfully flew from his home more than 200 miles into Idaho Saturday, landing safely in a field and welcomed by excited towns people.
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January 28, 2008
Topics fly, travel, naked, germany, flights, holidays, freedom, tickets, birthday, god, nude, island and people
On July 5, the first special flight that will allow passengers to fly in their birthday suit, naked that is, will take off from Erfurt in Southeast Germany to its destination in the island of Usedom off Baltic Sea. "All the passengers will fly naked, but they are only allowed to undress once they are in the plane. But then they will be able to enjoy the hour-long flight in the way God intended," Enrico Hess, the founder of the travel company OssiUrlaub, has been quoted as saying.
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October 31, 2007
Singapore Airlines is not allowing romantic passengers aboard its new Airbus A380 Superjumbo jets to use the beds in the private suites of the world's biggest commercial plane for sex. Australian newspaper Mercury quoted a spokesman of the airlines as saying that the ban on airborne sex is among the rules for passenger behavior during flights of the A380.
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