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Why don’t we all own flying cars?

04/30/23
Cars. Airplanes. Both are great ways to get around. But wouldn’t it be great if the two were put together so the same vehicle could get you where you needed to go no matter what the traffic conditions? Lots of people have been working on making that dream of flying cars – or roadable aircraft […]

Hoverboards don’t fly

12/27/15
If you got a hoverboard for Christmas, getting you new "it" gift home on the plane is going to be a problem. Most all domestic airlines have banned from both carry-on and checked baggage and an increasing number of international carriers have done the same.

Germs on a plane? More than you think.

09/11/15
Germs on a plane. They’re far likelier to get under your skin than snakes, screaming babies or smelly seatmates. And they’re most common on tray tables – a surface that is touched frequently during a typical flight, a new study found. Travelmath.com recently sent swab-carrying microbiologists to five airports and onto four airplanes and then […]

E-cigs on a plane & in the airport

10/11/14
Can you vape on vacation? Maybe. Maybe not. Sales of e-cigarettes and their cousins, re-fillable “vaporizers,” are currently a $2.2 billion market in the United States, according to tobacco analysts at Wells Fargo Securities, up from an estimated $1.7 billion in 2013. And e-cig consumption could surpass that of combustible cigarettes in 10 years, according […]
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