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Butterfly A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could…

[HUMOR] You could have heard a pin drop When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its…

my Daddy's the pilot, and he's taking me home.

Qantas Airlines announced that a seven-hour scenic flight which will take off and land at the same airport sold out in ten minutes. The unusual flight departed Sydney, made no stops, and promised views over Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef before returning to Sydney. Buyers quickly grabbed the 134 available…

A classic 1956 Chevrolet sedan that was originally used as a military staff car at an Army Depot was sold twice to help the Honor Flight organization which provides free transportation for veterans to visit military memorials in Washington DC. The government auctioned the Chevrolet 150 in 1964 and it…

A wealthy Indonesian man and his wife shared photos from a plane where they were the only passengers because he bought every ticket to protect them from COVID-19. Richard Muljadi, who is known for his extravagant lifestyle, posted the pictures showing himself and his wife traveling to Bali in an empty…

16-year-old TJ Kim has spent a lot of time hoping to make a difference in Virginia and Maryland by collecting and flying personal protective equipment to rural hospitals. Kim donated 4,300 pieces of PPE to August Health in Virginia. Over the three months prior to that, Kim made close to a dozen flights…

A Greek student decided that the best way to get back home was to ride a bicycle after flights were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kleon Papadimitriou was studying at the University of Aberdeen and was not able to book a flight home to Athens, so researched the possibility of riding a bicycle…

Have you missed the travel scene since the Covid-19 pandemic reduced mass travel? Qantas Airlines offered some hope for those who were missing traveling. The Australian airline announced a flight to nowhere in September. The airline sold out 134 tickets in 10 minutes with the promise the passengers could…

Have you ever been on a journey, with someone else at the wheel, where you thought you were going someplace, only to end up in a completely different location? Happened not so long ago to the passengers on a British Airways flight out of London City Airport. They thought they were on a flight to Dusseldorf…

When the SpaceX capsule returned safely to earth in September 2021, returning four amateurs after a three-day journey in space, the group made history as the first space tourists. The four crew members included a billionaire who paid for the trip and his three guests who hoped to show that ordinary people…

You never can be sure who you can trust, but one person you really trust is the pilot of any airplane on which you are traveling. According to Khulam Sarwar Khan, the aviation minister of the country of Pakistan, more than 30 percent of Pakistan’s civilian pilots have fake pilot’s licenses and are not…

July 24, 2010 in Spearfish, South Dakota a small engine plane crashed and killed one person. The pilot and his wife were flying into the small airport from Montana. Upon his approach to the airport, he reported by radio that everything seemed to be normal until he began to make his final descent to enter…

One hundred and forty nine passengers were preparing to fly to London, when French authorities ordered the seizing of their jet. The jet, owned by Ryanair, was released because the company had ignored attempts to get them to repay funds the European Union had declared to be illegal subsidies. Authorities…

For most people, the airport experience is a necessary, if dreaded, part of travel. But with travel impossible for many in Taiwan, the Taipei Songshan Airport found 7000 people willing to endure the indignities of airport security without taking any trips. The airport chose 60 via lottery and invited…

After three years of searching for Malaysia Flight 370, the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau released a final report concluding that authorities are no closer to knowing the reason for the plane’s disappearance that they were when the plane disappeared. The bureau said the 52 days search covered…

In an article in the Wall Street Journal, columnist Elizabeth Bernstein has written about the benefits of prayer. The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic has increased worldwide interest in prayer. Google searches for prayer has skyrocketed. She interviewed numerous people who have turned to prayer to…

A United Airlines flight landed safely in Hawaii after an engine cover came off during a flight from California. Images passengers posted on social media showed an engine with the exterior cover missing. A video showed the engine shaking back and forth with pieces of the cover flapping in the wind. Passengers…

Some passengers on KLM airline flights within the Netherlands have recognized that it was not just any co-pilot giving them the weather and estimated arrival on their flight, but they were hearing the voice of their king. King Willem-Alexander told the national newspaper that he is ending his role as…

There is mounting evidence that time spent on Smartphones can interfere with sleep, self esteem, relationships, memory, attention span, creativity and decision making skills. New evidence suggests they may also raise levels of cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone. Cortisol is the primary fight-or…

On April 17, 2018 a Southwest Airlines plane lost an engine and experienced extreme damage when a part of that engine penetrated the passenger cabin killing one passenger and creating great fear among the rest of the 142 passengers on board. The Dallas Morning News sent a reporter to learn more about…

Skirmantas Strimaitis was ticketed to fly from Vilnius, Lithuania to Bergamo, Italy for a ski outing. When he arrived at the airport he learned he was the only passenger on the 188-seat airplane. The plane’s crew outnumbered him seven to one; nevertheless, he made the two-hour-plus flight as the only…

7-year-old Connor Wheatley has a severe genetic disorder that requires him to make frequent trips to a medical specialist in New York. In order to cover some of the expenses, his family holds garage sales. They will make another trip soon and recently learned that the family’s airfare will be covered…

In the Disney movie “A wrinkle in time” a young boy and his sister are taken on a trip to save the father from the destruction of “The It.” Their guides fly them through the universe to a far away planet with beautiful landscapes such as they had never seen. As they move through the scenery they are…

A man who lost his wife and two children in Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is dealing with his grief by trying to find out what happened to the aircraft. Ghislain Wattrelos and other relatives of the people aboard Flight 370 visited Madagascar to ask residents of the coast to keep looking for debris from…