Flight

在空中。

You mean like flying an airplane? 你是说开飞机吗? Great idea! 真棒的主意。

Right? You'll be in the air instead of underwater.

是不是? 你会在空中而不是在水底。 今天学会三个动词,dive。 Qian shui, swim.

On the wall are some different works of art, and in the forefront is a a stand that has several pieces of ceramic on it, and there's a young woman standing there admiring the art.

By that photo, it says, The next news article is titled, Flight returns to Las Vegas after hijack threat.

An airline passenger was arrested for allegedly writing a message while midair that he was going to hijack the plane, forcing the United flight to be diverted back to Las Vegas shortly after takeoff Saturday.

The 25-year-old allegedly communicated that he was going to hijack this plane, although he used an expletive, and crash your row only, according to a copy of the criminal complaint.

An attorney listed for the man did not immediately return a request for comment.

His initial court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday.

The scheduled red-eye flight returned to the airport less than an hour after departing, according to Flight Radar 24 data.

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With the approach of the full moon... my white clothed lady with the scarf about her head and face appeared to me in dreams if they were dreams more and more frequently together we soared or seemed to soar wherever i asked or the winds took us

or she desired and without my realizing it day by day i grew weaker and weaker each night she would Flying, flying high above all the world and its sins and its agony.

Darling.

Oh, my darling, kiss me.

And then they also need to, you know, flap their wings to kind of interact with the air to get them off the ground.

And then they have to kind of navigate the air as they're going, right? And that is a kind of, I mean, it's a kind of communication in a way, if you don't, If you were to not look at it as something that involves information, you would look at that as kind of an interaction between the air and the bird, right? And the bird has to do certain things because the air has certain qualities, and then the bird is able to fly, right? But flying does not have a meaning, right? Flying has a purpose, perhaps.

Flying is also just something to do as well, right? Do birds say, oh, I'm going to take off so I can go over here? I mean, like migration of birds.

Is that like birds are sitting around going, is it time yet? Hmm.

What do you think, other birds? Should we talk about this? Should we make a decision about when we're going to take off and start migrating, right? And my guess is that's not what happens, right? So this is, again, like the sovereignty of the body, and it doesn't require to do something that's really complex.

And we'll never know, but I'm confident we will have saved some lives.

Likewise with Flying overalls, you know, why do you need flying overalls? Why do you need Nomex flying overalls? Because overalls themselves get oil in them.

If you get a fire in the air, you'll go up like a torch.

So you have to have Nomex.

Man, I'm honored to be here today.

One of my favorite events for the year, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Flying.

This event is something that you guys have been doing for quite a while now.

I think you and I maybe had a chance to do this jointly together for a year or two when we stopped doing it in Ontario, and then we did it jointly together, and then I left, and I think Ontario no longer... supply any support for you guys to do this.

And so he started lobbying, petitioning the French government to say, hey, let's start a French like an all-American escadrille, and originally called it the American escadrille.

So after many, many months of lobbying, he got them to assemble an all-American escadrille.

Qu'est-ce que c'est l'espadrille? Escadrille

is like a squadron.

Oh, squadron, okay.

He's a business jet pilot, a journalist, CFI, publishes JetWine.com.

He produces the Stories About Flying podcast, and you'll hear him on the NTSB News Talk podcast.

Hey, good evening to everybody, and I, I'm really sad to say that it's, uh, at recording time, it's, it's absolutely dark here in Chicago.

That's just your frame of mind, Rob.

[laughs] It always sneaks up on me, and it's such a disappointment.

All right, well, we've got some, uh, some news from the past week, some aviation news, and we've also got some conversations with some interesting folks that we'll be bringing you this week.

But we'll start with Flying magazine, and FAA breaks ATC hiring record, but more work remains.

And, uh, I guess, Rob, this comes from a FAA press release that said the agency, quote, "Exceeded its fiscal year 2026 goal, hiring 2,235 air traffic controller trainees, the most in FAA history."

What's something that you always wanted to try, but you haven't.

Uh, Flying.

All right.

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