10 Things We Learned In Travel This Week
(May 6, 2004)
1. Wings Of A Doze
All Nippon Captain flying a Boeing 767 with 80 passengers on board fell asleep twice -- with an inspector onboard!
2. Euro-Crash! Budget Airline Goes Bust
More than 1000 tourists were stranded across Europe after budget airline "Duo" shuts down.
3. BOE-WING 747
Aircraft wings modeled on the flight of birds are being tested. Pennsylvania State University has designed 'tendons' and 'joints' that alters wing shape to cut drag and improve fuel consumption.
4. A Trail Of Global Warming?
Report says aircraft vapor trails could cause global warming.
5. Ship Of Fools
Passengers tip boat trying to see nudists.
6. Hip, Hop, Lettuce
Passenger finds frog in airline salad.
7. Where's The Beef?
A couple on the Atkins Diet have a beef with a local restaurant after being booted from the buffet for eating too much meat.
8. Terminal Detention
Corpse with false passport stays 16 days at airport.
9. Higher Learning
A 93-foot section of TWA Flight 800, which blew up in 1996, has been reassembled and now serves as a teaching tool for air crash investigators.
10. Singapore Flush
Singapore to print tourist toilet maps.
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