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There’s no pill or instant fix for jet lag. But with more than 20 hours of flight time from New York to Australia on my horizon, I was eager to unearth any solution in a bid to make the most of my 10-day trip.  Friends had suggested everything from the prescription anti-anxiety drug Xanax (alprazolam) to melatonin supplements to pack …

Two Southwest flight attendants hurt after jet dives to avoid mid-air collision  Reuters Southwest flight abruptly descends to avoid mid-air collision with another plane near Burbank airport  ABC7 Los Angeles Southwest flight plummets, injuring flight attendants  BBC Southwest Airlines jet dives as a fighter jet crosses its path near Los Angeles  CNN Southwest flight descends 475 feet to avoid ‘midair collision’ with Hawker Hunter  ABC …

The crew of a B-52H Stratofortress that had a near-miss with a civilian airliner near Minot International Airport last Friday told air traffic control they were nearby, but were not informed a passenger jet was in the area, the Air Force said. The passenger jet, flight 3788 from SkyWest Airlines, was on approach to land at the Minot airport the …

A Delta airlines pilot was forced to make an “aggressive” evasive manoeuvre to avoid a potential mid-air collision with a US fighter jet before landing in North Dakota. The pilot, who identified the aircraft as a B-52 bomber, is heard in video recordings shared on social media saying it was “kind of, sort of coming at us”. “So, sorry about …

Fire erupted in one engine of a Delta Air Lines plane just after takeoff late last week at Los Angeles International Airport, but after a quick turnaround, the jet landed safely. Flight 446, which was en route from LAX to Atlanta on Friday afternoon, made a loop and touched down about 2:10 pm, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which …

Facebook Tweet Email Link A pilot flying a Delta Air Lines regional jet on Friday apologized to his passengers after making a hard turn to avoid colliding with a US Air Force B-52 bomber, audio from the incident shows. The incident occurred on SkyWest Flight 3788, which was operating as a Delta Connection flight, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Minot, North …

Instagram embeds are back It looks like the Instagram embeds issue has been resolved (fingers crossed). If you missed yesterday’s Screecaps, then you missed Joe running into the embeds issue. I can confirm that up until last night, when I started putting today’s Screencaps together, that the Instagram embeds were not working. I hopped on this morning to finish it …

Breakfast in New York, midmorning snack in London. Taxi tests are underway on a highly anticipated supersonic plane designed to quietly break the sound barrier — and slash flight time between New York and London in half.  The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a California runway …

NASA scientists are furious. Fire Sale NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is reportedly holding a “going out of business sale” for its satellites, NASA Watch reports. The list of for-sale assets includes several Earth-monitoring satellites that were once tasked with studying the environment, helping with hurricane prediction efforts, and measuring the effects of climate change. Most launched over the last 20 …

NASA Blasts X-59 Quiet Supersonic Mini Jet to Mach 1.4 in Tokyo Tunnel  SciTechDaily X-59 Model Tested in Japanese Supersonic Wind Tunnel  NASA (.gov) In conversation with Kalea Texeira, National Training Program Manager at Federal Aviation Administration  alcircle NASA X-59 proves shockwave suppression for quiet supersonic flight in Mach 1.4 tests  Aerospace Global News Tiny Version of NASA Jet That’ll Go Supersonic With No …