The pilot accused of trying crash a plane tells his story
From Mike Baker for the New York Times: "In the minutes before he boarded an Alaska Airlines flight home, Joseph Emerson, a pilot for the airline, texted his wife and said he missed her. The flight was full, and Emerson was off duty, so he settled into the cockpit jump seat. Then he appeared to grow agitated, the other pilots told the authorities, and suddenly reached up and yanked two fire-suppression handles, which are designed to cut the fuel supply and shut down both engines. In his first interview since the incident, Mr. Emerson said he was overcome with a growing conviction that he was only imagining the journey and needed to take drastic action to bring the dream to an end."
Jay Leno owns a car that will run on almost any fuel, including tequila and perfume
From Lianne Turner for CNN: "Among the cars that Jay Leno has collected is a Chrysler Turbine car, of which only 50 were built in the early 1960s, which could run on any fuel except leaded gasoline. "When they drove it to Mexico it drove on tequila, when they took it out to France they burned Chanel No. 5 – any liquid that you could burn with oxygen you could run this car on," said Leno. "It is essentially a jet engine. But when this car came out in the early 60s nobody really cared about alternative fuels because fuel cost 26 cents per gallon. It was extremely expensive to produce and it wasn't really that much faster than a V8 and it would have cost a lot more to produce."
The forests of Normandy are revealing secrets about World War II
From Matthew Wills for JSTOR Daily: "One would think that the military history of World War II is well-covered territory. But we’re now long enough away from those events that the application of archaeological methods can reveal new things and revise the record. The forests of Normandy are a case in point. an archaeological survey of WWII remains in Normandy’s Andaines National Forest has “prompted an evaluation of the effectiveness of Allied intelligence gathering and tactical bombing” before and after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944. It turns out that neither intelligence nor bombing seem to have been particularly effective against supply depots hidden in the forest."
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