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Pilot Vicki Cruse Killed during competition at World Aerobatic Championship Event!

California Pilot Vicki Cruse was performing at the World Aerobatic Championships when her Zivko Edge E40 came plummeting to the ground. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends and family.

International Aerobatic Club

Telegraph UK

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Busty Barmaid Charlotte Robinson Plans to Parachute Topless for Charity!

On August 1 Busty (36GG) Barmaid Charlotte Robinson will jump topless from a plane anchored to another skydiver - to raise money for a local ambulance service.  The skydiving organization handling the jump, said, the only folks that will really see Robinson topless are those in the plane.  But I guess it's the fantasy.

Pic and story
Lancashire Evening Post
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Nixon's Speech He Never Gave! If Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin Were Marooned on the Moon in 1969!

The world was elated when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon back in 1969. I was running props for "Mame" at Cleveland's Musicarnival theatre, and when Bea Arthur broke into the song- "Man in the Moon", the audience cheered...that's how it was back then....

But I never knew that President Nixon had speechwriter William Safire write a speech, in case the two astronauts got marooned on the moon. It's a part of history now...and interesting to say the least...Thankfully it was never given.  Thanks to Some Space Guy for posting the link.....

Nixon's Undelivered Speech
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Move Over Analog TV! You Know that GPS System You Bought? It May Not Work After 2010!

This is just what the consumer electronics industry needs. With the news that the Gov't hasn't replaced aging GPS satellites, there is word that not only Gov't GPS systems may not work after 2010, but Consumer GPS systems as well. This includes hand-held systems, and cell phones. If this is the case, I will just toss my tomtom one next to my all- weather-earthquake-survival-center w/analog b/w tv.  Let's not panic yet.....if the Gov't can spend billions to fix the Hubble, they can surely spend a couple billion to keep the GPS systems running.  Wouldn't you think?

PC World

The Hotel That Flies- The Hotelicopter! Real or Hoax?

Just what the world needs- A Hotel that flies.... Hoax or Real?

The Hotelicopter- has 18 rooms, and will begin it's maiden voyage this summer.......

Hotelicopter Web Site

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Teenage Spanish Students of IES La Bisbal Launch Weather Balloon & Camera into Space - Amazing Pictures!

A group of teenage Spanish students are making news, after spending $86 USD to launch a weather balloon and digital camera- sending back pictures from outerspace.  The pics are amazing.  Since the pics are copyrighted- you will have to click the link

Telegraph UK

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Magician Wade Whitcomb Ships Himself Via UPS from Syracuse to Las Vegas!

Wade Whitcomb a/k/a Wade Live decided to ship himself in a crate between Syracuse and Las Vegas. Embedded in the crate were video cameras, and the video was created to launch a web site for friend Ryan Breen. ( Though I cannot find a link yet).  Suffice it to say. Real or Hoax? 

AP

Wade Live

Az Central

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Japanese Woman Misses Flight From Hong Kong to San Francisco- Goes Hysterical at Airport.

A Japanese Woman who missed her flight, is now famous due to this video that has become viral. I guess she had to get somewhere....duh


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Gerry Niewood, Coleman Mellet, Band Members of Chuck Mangione Died in Buffalo Plane Crash

Anytime there is a plane crash, the list of the dead is hard to review. Alot of the times we will be aware of one of the dead, and that is the case with the deaths of two musicians who were part of Chuck Magione's band, scheduled to play in Buffalo, 2/13. Such was the case with passengers Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellet.

Chuck Magione said in a press release: "I'm in shock over the horrible, heartbreaking tragedy of the crash of Flight 3407, which took the lives of my dear friends and band members Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett. I am grieving and praying with their families and friends.
That's all I can say for now," Mangione said in the release.

AP Obits

Coleman Mellett

An accomplished jazz guitarist, Mellett was a touring member of trumpeter Chuck Mangione's band for the last several years. The group was scheduled to perform Friday night at the Kleinhans Music Hall with the Buffalo Philharmonic.

Mellett grew up near Washington, D.C., and moved to New Jersey to study at William Paterson University, according to his MySpace profile. After graduating he moved to New York and earned a master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music in 1998.

Mellett, 33, lived in East Brunswick, N.J., with his wife, singer Jeanie Bryson, according to the Star-Ledger of Newark.

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Gerry Niewood

Gerry Niewood was a childhood friend of trumpeter Chuck Mangione and had been making music with him since the two were children. He lived in Glen Ridge, N.J., and played saxophone, clarinet and flute for some of the biggest names in pop music, according to his MySpace profile.

He was flying to Buffalo for a performance with Mangione's band.

Niewood once said he learned jazz improvisation on his own.

"I listened to jazz records and mentally transcribed them. Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane," he told City Newspaper, a Rochester, N.Y., weekly in 2006.

In addition to Mangione, Niewood backed artists as diverse as Peggy Lee, Simon and Garfunkel, Judy Collins, Frank Sinatra and Sinead O'Connor, among others. He also played on the soundtracks of movies including "A Bronx Tale," "When Harry Met Sally" and "King of Comedy."

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Our thoughts and prayers go out of family, friends and fans.

Democrat and Chronicle

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Airline Employee Karin Keegan sues JetBlue and Delta! She wasn't dressed Provocative enough!

If you are looking for pics of Karin Keegan, I haven't found any. But that may change. Most of the articles are rehashes of the AP article, but here's the gist....

Keegan, a Delta attendant was trying to board a JetBlue flight ( Delta has an agreement with JetBlue to ferry attendents to cities for flights) but when she tried to board the JetBlue flight she was told by a male employee she wasn't dressed provocative enough. She hurried changed into "something more provocative" but was still denied boarding, though less senior employees were allowed on the flight....so she is suing.


According to Lebanon Daily News

"He wanted her to change to a lower-cut shirt and tighter pants, and wear more makeup before letting her on the plane," Keegan's attorney, Samuel Cordes, said Monday. Delta and JetBlue officials refused to intercede when she complained, the lawsuit said.


USA Today 
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