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May 11, 2012

Dangling riders zip, loop and turn like a planeThe scariest part of a roller coaster isn't the drop. It's the climb — that sheer anticipation of what's to come as this machine you're riding in starts to head irrevocably skyward. Time slows down, and the ground and the park crowds fall away. full story

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Taking action on inversions

Taking action on inversions by Gary Kunkel For The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 16, 2013 01:01AM MDT How do we solve our inversions? First and foremost, acknowledge the problem. This was the impetus behind the letter the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment delivered to Gov. Gary Herbert on Jan. 23, which declared a public health state of emergency based on extreme...

sltrib.com (4 months and 4 days ago)

Off-and-on storm expected to expel valley inversions

Off-and-on storm expected to expel valley inversions by Michael Mcfall The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 9, 2013 09:49AM MDT Feel free to breath again — and get ready to shovel. The slow-moving and intermittent snow storm that has blown in from California, and is expected to last through the weekend, will have cleaned out valley inversions by Sunday, according to the Utah...

sltrib.com (4 months and 10 days ago)

Off-and-on storm expected to expel Utah’s valley inversions

Off-and-on storm expected to expel Utah’s valley inversions by Michael Mcfall The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 9, 2013 06:03PM MDT Feel free to breathe again — and get ready to shovel. The slow-moving and intermittent snowstorm that has blown in from California, and is expected to last through the weekend, will have cleaned out valley inversions by Sunday, according to...

sltrib.com (4 months and 10 days ago)

Industry and inversions

Industry and inversions Published Feb 22, 2013 01:01AM MDT It was great to see that Salt Lake’s recent poor air quality garnered national attention on NBC’s “Today” show. The whole situation makes me sick. I have been in the environmental engineering business for 40 years and am now retired. I remember meetings with consultants, engineers, manufacturers and end users...

sltrib.com (3 months and 28 days ago)

Toxic air: Perpetrators and victims

Toxic air: Perpetrators and victims by David Carrier And Harry E. Fuller, Jr. For The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 9, 2013 01:01AM MDT Each winter, Wasatch Front residents assume the dual role of perpetrator and victim, turning the very air they breathe toxic with each cycle of the inevitable atmospheric inversions. These inversions assault Wasatch Mountain metropolitan...

sltrib.com (4 months and 11 days ago)

Dreamliner’s First Flight With New Battery Goes Flawlessly

Boeing has completed the first flight of a 787 Dreamliner with the new battery system installed. The company said the flight was a normal “functional check flight” that is done with all new aircraft before being delivered to an airline.

wired.com (2 months and 26 days ago)

Video: Man claims to have poisoned everyone on a United flight to Newark

Police and medical crews are questioning a man who announced on an international flight that everyone aboard had been poisoned. Passengers and the flight crew say they had to subdue him for several hours before the flight landed in New Jersey. Marlie Hall reports.

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JetBlue Flight Attendant Rescues Couple's Wedding

Three flight attendants manning a JetBlue flight from California to New York are receiving accolades after helping an engaged couple not just enjoy their flight but say “I do.” The couple, Rick and Liam, who asked that their last names not be used, traveled in...

abcnews.com (3 months and 7 days ago)

Diverted flight: Wildlife threatens safety of commercial flight

Wildlife was the cause of a diverted flight on JetBlue airlines for passengers flying from White Plains, N.Y. to Fort Meyers, Fla. Thr., WebPro News reports June 6. Flight 1205 had an apparent "bird strike" and landed...

examiner.com (13 days ago)

Parents complain about in-flight film, get kicked off plane

A family traveling from Denver to Baltimore on United claims that their flight was diverted by the captain because the parents requested that the in-flight movie, "Alex Cross," be turned off. The parents, thus far unnamed, wrote a letter to The Atlantic about the incident. According to the letter, after the flight took off, the [...]

yahoo.com (2 months and 16 days ago)

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