Rolls-Royce to replace A380 engines
• APRolls-Royce will temporarily replace entire engines suffering from oil leaks on the world's largest jetliner after one motor suffered a frightening midair disintegration.
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Transportation: Air Travel
THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON
• CNNIn response to a video of a California man's dispute with airport security officials, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday it tries to be sensitive to individuals, but everyone getting on a flight must be screened.
Are new security screenings affecting your decision to fly?
• Reuters Online PollI don't post online polls often. But this one stunned me on the number of respondents and the percentages! You can take it too.
Nude Protest: Airport Body Scanners in Germany
• youtubeThe underwear bombers Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports. So to protest, members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized a fleshmob of people who stripped down to their skivvies last Su
Defeat TSA: Wear a Cup!
Written By:In a sheer moment of genius, I realized an obvious and easy way to defeat TSA's new "grope-down" procedures. You see, if you're selected to go through a "naked body scanner" and refuse, you will be now subjected to literal molestation at the hand
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Naked body scanners may be dangerous: scientists
• AFPScientists warned the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners that are being used to screen passengers at airports around the country may be unsafe. "They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-ray
TSA encounter at SAN
• Insert title hereThese events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired. [inspiring video!]
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - Sat. Nov 13th 2010
• LewRockwell.comPaying To Be TSA-Raped, Sibel Edmonds - Want a Better Future? Get rid of central banks, says Jim Rogers - Get Ready for Old Man Winter, 15 ways to winterize your home
Air Agency Issued Engine Warning Then Eased Checks
• APThree months before a superjumbo jet engine blew apart and forced an emergency landing, European safety regulators had relaxed their inspection order for the same section of the engine implicated in the dangerous mishap.
TSA Blows Smoke for Sensitive Screening Document
• http://cryptome.orgThe unredacted TSA screening document (Zipped PDF):
Japanese TSA also out of control
• www.youtube.comSome things are universal.
WE WON'T FLY
• wewontfly.comTake Action: Defeat the Scanners and Gropers
Pilots and passengers rail at new airport patdowns
• www.reuters.comStepped-up security screening at airports in the wake of foiled terrorism plots has provoked an outcry from airline pilots and travelers, including parents of children who say they are too intrusive.
It's time to dismantle the TSA - In the meantime, boycott air travel
• Brasscheck TVEven the Nazis didn't do this Clearly, the TSA and the US government are completely out of control. Months ago, we told you the full body "backscatter" X-ray screening machines being installed in airports were far more dangerous than the ly
Today on LewRockwell.com
• www.lewrockwell.comThe Gold Standard Never Dies / The TSA Makes Pilots Sick
Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped up
• youtubeThe TSA chose Meg McLain for special screening. They wanted her to go through the new porno-scanners. When she opted out, TSA agents raised an enormous ruckus. When she asked some question about what they planned to do to her, they flipped out. TSA a
Flight attendants union upset over new pat-down procedures
• ABC News"We don't want them in uniform going through this enhanced screening where their private areas are being touched in public," said Volpe. "They actually make contact with the genital area." Some passengers have told ABC15 they've already encountere
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The TSA: Always Infuriated at <br>Taking What It Dishes Out
Program Date:Becky Akers is a free-lance journalist and historian who has written for many major publications and websites. She prays daily for the TSA's abolition.
Masked man nabbed on flight to B.C. from Asia
• CBC NewsDuring the12-hour flight a passenger who "was observed at the beginning of the flight to be an elderly Caucasian male who attended the washroom and emerged an Asian male that appeared to be in his early 20s."
Airports cash in on terror checks
• This is MoneyAt least eight airports are charging travellers up to £5 to beat the queues. A whistleblower security guard claimed there is a deliberate policy to let the queues grow to encourage people to pay for the express lane.
Swiss man performs aerial loops with jet wings
• APSwiss adventurer Yves Rossy jumped from a hot-air balloon Friday and completed two aerial loops using just his custom-made jet-propelled wingsuit -- the first time such maneuvers have been performed.
Yemen cargo bombs prompt restrictions on toner
• Associated ContentRyan Air chief executive officer Michael O'Leary predicted it, and sure enough, Britain enacted barn door restrictions in response to the Oct. 29 discovery of bombs inside toner cartridges in printers shipped as cargo from Yemen to the United States
Memos Detail TSA Officer's Cocaine Pranks
• The Smoking GunThe Transportation Security Administration worker who earlier this year was canned for falsely claiming to have discovered cocaine in the luggage of travelers was a bomb appraisal officer who was supposed to be evaluating new screening equipment at t
In-flight wi-fi at risk following bomb scares
• Maximum PCOur ability to use in-flight Internet could be at risk following this latest terror threat. The bombs contained what appear to be stripped down cell phones, leading some to speculate they were to be detonated remotely. Homeland Security has locked in
Despite dry run, timing midair explosion not easy
• AP. The communication cards had been removed and the phones could not receive calls, officials said, making it likely the terrorists intended the alarm or timer functions to detonate the bombs. "The cell phone probably would have been triggered by t
Allied Pilots Assoc president advises against new body scanners because of radiation
• BodyScannerTruth.comAPA president Dave Bates advises pilots go through a pat-down search by TSA personnel rather undergo the repeated radiation from the body scanners.
Enhanced pat-downs to begin at Buffalo airport
• BodyScannerTruth.comWhen asked if the government anticipates complaints, the law enforcement official said, “We won’t know until it is deployed in Buffalo, and we see how people react.”
British Airways chairman pans US security rules
• APThe United States is making excessive demands for airline passenger screening, including measures it doesn't require on US domestic flights, the chairman of British Airways says. Complaining specifically about separate checks of laptop computers and
Armed with new treaty, Europe amplifies objections to U.S. data-sharing demands
• Washington PostThe Obama administration has encountered mounting resistance in Europe to its demands for broad sharing of airline passenger data and other personal information designed to spot would-be terrorists before they strike.
Video: Virgin Galactic, Plus Special Guest, Dedicates Spaceport America and its Two-Mile Runway
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comVideo of the event, which sawhe christening of the facility’s nearly two-mile long runway and as well as a flyover and landing by the Virgin space vehicle duo, surfaced Saturday we can join on Sir Richard Branson’s fun.
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