A company has plans to mine asteroids that zip close by Earth, both to provide supplies for future interplanetary travelers and to bring back precious metals.
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In Pursuit of Riches, and Travelers’ Supplies, in the Asteroid Belt
Sudan attacked South Sudan with warplanes and ground troops, only days after Sudan said its military had forced the south’s forces out of a contested oil-rich region, South Sudan said on Monday.
Pakistan begins mourning the victims of a plane crash in a residential area near Islamabad airport – all 127 on board are believed to have died.
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Pakistan mourns air crash victims
A Delta Airlines plane has made an emergency landing in New York after an apparent bird strike.
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VIDEO: US emergency landing after bird strike
A British man jailed for plotting to blow up a plane says he met Osama Bin Laden, in a landmark testimony at a New York terror trial.
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UK terror convict ‘met Bin Laden’
A small plane with an unresponsive pilot crashed in the central Gulf of Mexico on Thursday after circling above the ocean for more than two hours, but it appeared intact after hitting the water, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.
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Plane with unresponsive pilot crashes
Fatigue led a pilot to mistake the planet Venus for another plane and send his airliner into a dive, injuring 16 people last year, investigators say.
A plane bound for the United States is forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport, leaving 14 people with suspected fractures.
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Jet in Gatwick emergency landing
A fleet of RAF surveillance planes is grounded after a fault was discovered on one aircraft, the Ministry of Defence confirms.
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Fault grounds surveillance planes
The airline Qantas is flying its planes on biofuel made from recycled chip oil. But how does it work?
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VIDEO: How does Qantas fly on chip fat?
The mechanism by which stars spew out the raw ingredients for planets at the end of their lives is elucidated in a pioneering experiment.
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Stardust recycling mystery solved
Two Navy pilots ejected from a fighter jet Friday, sending their unmanned plane careening into a Virginia Beach apartment complex and engulfing several buildings in flames.
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Navy Jet Crashes in Virginia
The jet was one of a number of Sudanese warplanes bombing South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity State, a South Sudanese spokesman said, underlining a worry that a full-fledged war will break out.
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South Sudan Says It Downs Sudan Jet as Clashes Continue
Inside US desert base that trains pilots to fly unmanned planes
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Inside America’s Drone HQ
If you need one golden strategy for ordering your in-flight meal, it's this: always order the stew. If the stew's not available, go for fried rice and fatty fish. Pasta, noodles, chicken breast or anything deep-fried does not fare so well in the harsh conditions of the aircraft galley. These recommendations come straight from the people tasked with making the millions of meals served in-flight every day, such as Fritz Gross, director of culinary excellence at LSG Sky Chefs Asia Pacific. As the guy in charge of LSG Sky Chefs' Hong Kong operation, which churns out 30,000 meals daily for airlines such as DragonAir, United Airlines and British Airways, Gross' challenge is a tough one: serve hundreds of people quality meals, but do so with no knives, no crème brûlée blow torches (or indeed any fancy equipment) and with no fresh ingredients at the point of service. Read the full story: “Skip the pasta! And other unsavory truths about airplane food”
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Plane truth: Airlines concerned about food safety, not taste
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