Category Archive: Off the Runway

Goodyear Blimp to be Inducted into College Football Hall of Fame

Crain’s Cleveland Business – The Goodyear blimp, with its long history of aerial coverage of big games, seems to have become as much a part of college football as marching bands and cheerleaders. Now, its role is being recognized as the iconic airship is being inducted as an honorary member into the College Football Hall …

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I-X Center lands a big piece of its history

CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS – The I-X Center has rescued an aircraft with ties to the massive, World War II-era building and plans to showcase it on the complex’s 1 million-square-foot exhibition floor. The airplane, a KC-97 Stratofreighter flying tanker, is in pieces for now. But within a year, with the investment of $1 million-plus, I-X …

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Air Canada flight helps locate sailor off Australian coast – World – CBC News

Australian authorities are thanking the crew of an Air Canada flight for helping to locate a sailor in distress off the country’s east coast.The Australian Maritime Safety Authority AMSA said Tuesday it received an emergency beacon activation at 8:15 a.m. local time, coming from approximately 270 nautical miles 500 kilometres east of Sydney.The AMSA requested …

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Reno man accused of watching porn, committing sex act on Southwest Airlines flight – San Jose Mercury News

A Nevada man was arrested at Denver International Airport over the weekend for allegedly viewing Internet porn on his laptop and committing a sexual act on a commercial airline flight.  Daniel Michael Drinan, 63, of Reno, watched pornography and was touching himself on a Southwest Airlines flight Saturday from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to DIA, according …

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