Standing Room Flying?

"Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary wants passengers to stand on the budget airline’s flights, in a bid to pack in more people and boost profits. Passengers would pay less to huddle next to what have been described as “bar stools”, with seat belts around their waists. O’Leary has already held talks with US plane manufacturer Boeing about designing a jet with standing room. He is now hoping to get the go-ahead from the Irish Aviation Authority before ordering a new fleet. A Ryanair spokesman said: “If they approve it, we’ll be doing it.”

O’Leary got the idea from Chinese airline Spring, which put forward similar plans — estimating they could pack in up to 50 per cent more passengers and slash costs by 20 per cent (FoxNews)."

I know times are tough for airlines, but this has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever read. Standing on a place in a terrible idea, and "sitting on a bar stool" would be uncomfortable for any flight that is more then an hour or so. Anyways, there is no way this will pass. It just sounds way to dangerous....

What I'm Buying DP

Yea, it's a flight gear. Apparently you can jump off cliffs and stuff, and fly around. I know DP will love it, and will most likely bring him to his end. So, I get to watch something hilarious, and finally complete my mission of killing DP...all for only $800 bucks.

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Why Not Fly A Plane Drunk?

Sometimes a story comes along that is just too good to be true. This is one of them...

"Alexander Cheplevsky sparked panic on flight Aeroflot 315 when he began to speak. His slurred and garbled comments ahead of a Dec. 29 flight from Moscow to New York convinced passengers that he was drunk. When he apparently switched from Russian into unintelligible English, fear turned to revolt (FoxNews)."

Now, we have read lots of stories like this. The pilot is drunk, and the news crew tells us what a horrible person he is, and so on, but this is where this story gets great.

"Flight attendants initially ignored passengers' complaints and threatened to expel them from the Boeing 767 jet unless they stopped "making trouble" (FoxNews)."

So, this guy is slurring his words, and switching languages, yet the flight attendants seem to think he is fine. It doesn't end there though. One of the flight attendants then announces to the passengers that this is...

"Not such a big deal if the pilot was drunk because the aircraft practically flew itself".

Fantastic! You have to love Russians, they do everything drunk, so nothing seems like a big deal.

"I don't think there's anyone in Russia who doesn't know what a drunk person looks like," Katya Kushner, one of the passengers, told the Moscow Times.

Awesome.

The Future Is Here!!!

"A man used a hydrogen-peroxide powered jet pack to travel 1,500 feet across the Royal Gorge near Canon City on Monday. Daredevil Eric Scott said it was incomparable to anything he'd done in the past, saying he'd never gone that far or had such a huge gap below. The Royal Gorge, cut by the Arkansas River in southern Colorado, is more than 1,100 feet deep. The jet pack can fly for about 33 seconds at speeds of more than 70 mph (FoxNews)."

I have been waiting for my flying car for a long time now, and it seems like we are finally getting on the right track. People flying with jet packs just sounds awesome. It is about damn time that humans stopped walking, and took the next step into flight. You think if everyone got these people would become even fatter? I say no, because how far are we from making a salad that taste like a cheeseburger?

-BMack