As a preteen, Terry Tomeny and his father, Edward “Ted” Tomeny, had no clue that one flight in a Cessna 172 would send the youngster up a path that would lead him to approximately 10,000 hours of flying time in more than 80 types of aircraft. “Flying was the coolest thing I have ever done,…
Top Flight: With a Storied Aviation Career, Terry Tomeny Is Inspiring a New Generation
Blue Origin’s Bezos Reaches Space on First Passenger Flight
July 20, 2021
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VAN HORN, Texas—Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft. The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas—the…
2 Medical Students Respond to Call for Passengers to Help During Mid-Air Emergency on Flight to Greece
Late last month, two young medical students made their medical school proud after they responded to a patient in an emergency mid-air during a flight to Greece. The two women, Heather Duplessis and Lauren Bagneris, students at LSU Health Sciences Center, were on a flight to the Mediterranean nation when a call sounded on the…
Airline Pilot Announces on PA That His Dad Is on First Flight Aboard His Plane—Breaks Into Tears
A video of an airline pilot making an announcement before a flight went viral on Instagram. Captain Anselm Dewar was moved to tears on informing his passengers they had a “VIP aboard” for a return flight from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina—the VIP was his father, who would be sitting at the controls with him. The flight…
NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (June 14)
A massive explosion strikes a chemical plant in Illinois, we spoke with a couple who helped save the day when a hostile passenger acted up on one Delta flight, and an English teacher has resigned in New Jersey over curriculum she says is hurting students.
Boy, 12, Helps His Grandfather Fulfil His Dream of Flying a Spitfire for His 80th Birthday
A 12-year-old boy has cheered his grandfather up and helped him fulfill his lifelong dream to fly in a Spitfire for his 80th birthday by writing a heartfelt letter to an airfield. Harrison Gurney wanted to lift his granddad Malcolm Hanson’s spirits after his wife of 57 years, Sandra, 76, had to go and live…
Air France Flight From Chad Searched After Bomb Threat
PARIS—French authorities in Paris are searching an Air France airplane that arrived from Chad following an anonymous threat about a possible explosive device on board, officials said on Thursday. Air France said in a statement that following the threat, Air France Flight AF865 from N’Djamena to Paris had been escorted by a French Air Force…
Southwest Flight Attendant Loses Teeth in Alleged Assault by Passenger: Union
A Southwest Airlines flight attendant allegedly was assaulted by a passenger during a flight and lost several teeth, according to the president of the Southwest Airlines flight attendants’ union. TWU Local 556 President Lyn Montgomery said that over the past weekend, “one of our flight attendants was seriously assaulted, resulting in injuries to the face…
NASA Scores Wright Brothers Moment With First Helicopter Flight on Mars
LOS ANGELES—NASA’s miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of another planet, the U.S. space agency said. The twin-rotor whirligig’s debut on the Red Planet marked a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment for NASA, which said…
Two Space Fans Get Seats on Billionaire’s Private Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A billionaire’s private SpaceX flight filled its two remaining seats Tuesday with a scientist-teacher and a data engineer whose college friend actually won a spot but gave him the prize. The new passengers: Sian Proctor, a community college educator in Tempe, Arizona, and Chris Sembroski, a former Air Force missileman from Everett, Washington….
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