Results tagged “airplane”

According to a survey, New Yorkers don't like the idea of building another airport to relieve the god-awful congestion in the skies. But they're also opposed to pricing plane tickets based on the time of day. So what can they agree on? Apparently: redesigning flight patterns, updating the air traffic control system, and using Stewart International Airport in Orange County.

Yesterday morning, a Chicago-bound American Airlines flight took off from LaGuardia Airport, only to make an emergency landing at JFK Airport after one of its engines (engine #2) failed. Dozens of pieces of metal from the engine fell over a warehouse in College Point, Queens, alarming people in the area who heard a loud noise that wasn't the usual whirring of airplanes in the air. And it's suggested the engine was overdue for its required maintenance.

A space capsule has landed at the Intrepid! Earlier today a Beech T-34 Mentor airplane and a replica of a Gemini 3 space capsule, touched down on the Air & Space Museum. The plane will be part of an interactive display, giving visitors a taste of what it was like to "bring planes to the flight deck." The capsule is a replica of the one that took part in the first American two-man space mission; "on March 23rd, 1965 Intrepid helicopters picked up Gemini 3 astronauts John Young and Virgil 'Gus' Grissom and their two-person capsule nicknamed Molly Brown" after they orbited the Earth three times. Allegedly the nickname was a reference to Grissom's previous incident with the Liberty Bell 7 capsule, which sank in the Atlantic.

    

The retired Concorde jet that's been housed at Floyd Bennett Field for two years made its way to the Intrepid today with its brand new nose--GerritsenBeach captured great shots and some are above. The museum reopens on November 8th, and you can also expect to see the Growler on display--which made its trip there last month.

The world's largest passenger airliner touched down at JFK yesterday. The NY Daily News has a thorough description of the "superjumbo jet" that includes amenities such as an on-board lounge with a massage system, bathrooms where passengers can shower, and an entertainment system with more than 1,200 channels to choose from. The Emirates Airbus A380 completed its 13 1/2 hour flight from Dubai in such comfort that passengers "felt like they had just emerged from a heavenly limousine ride. " The A380 burns 20% less fuel and costs 17% less to fly than the standard 747-400.

Air traffic controllers say two planes were within 100 feet of colliding at JFK Airport this past weekend.

Why wasn't this monkey in the care of a zoo or someone who was qualified to care for monkeys? The Feds are nothing but a bunch of incompetent buffoons

Just the kind of thing needed for everyone to continue questioning in the current air traffic control situation at area airports. Two planes almost collided on Sunday at JFK Airport. Senator Charles Schumer said that an air traffic controller said, "That was the closest I have ever seen two airplanes get together." According to the NY Times (also, see image at right), a "37-seat commuter jet" almost collided with a "Boeing 747 cargo jet on...

The Thanksgiving Day and Thanksgiving Day Eve have emerged as some of the busiest travel days of the year. While the media shows shots of crowded airports and train stations on the Wednesdays before Thanksgiving (like today), the Bureau of Transportation Statistics says that when personal vehicle travel is included into calculations, "Thanksgiving Day is actually a heavier long-distance travel day [to and from a destination more than 50 or more miles away] than...

Realizing that air traffic congestion is terrible and will be even worse next week during Thanksgiving holiday, President Bush announced that the FAA is working on new ideas, plus military airspace will be opened up for five days to civilian planes. If using military airspace (the "Thanksgiving Express Lane") works well this time around, it may reopened for the Christmas holidays. The other measures the President announced were: FAA will focus on preventing delays...