Citing security concerns, the federal government in secrecy last month ordered every airline in the United States to remove emergency oxygen from the lavatory on all 6,000 domestic commercial aircraft.
Sometimes the Internet is too darn distracting. A day spent learning about airplanes, rugby, Rico, Salvador Dali, the What's My Line TV show and Anita and Arabella, two spiders who went to space.
(Boston: courtesy Marriott’s Custom House) Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends at 2 a.m. Sunday morning when we “fall back” to standard time by turning our clocks back one hour. As you rush around resetting the clocks on the microwave, the TV and the bedside alarm, imagine yourself watching time fly in one of the clock-worthy […]
This Saturday, September 25, 2010 is free Museum Day around the country. More than 1300 museums – including a lot of aviation and space museums – will open their doors for free to anyone who shows up with a downloaded coupon from Smithsonian magazine that’s good for admission for two people to any one museum […]