Trump Set To Hand $500 Million Bailout Loan To Spirit Airlines
The President's desire to save Spirit seemingly emerged out of the blue earlier this week.
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F1 Teams Unanimously Agree To Midseason Rules Tweaks
When push comes to shove, F1 can't truly experiment anymore because one of the championship's many vested interests will threaten to derail everything.
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Spirit Airlines Seeking Bailout In Desperate Bid To Avoid Collapse
Spirit was in trouble long before tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz became a target in the latest forever war.
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Titanic Life Jacket Sells For Over $900,000 At Auction
How much would you pay to own a piece of memorabilia from a historical tragedy?
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Blue Origin Put Satellite Into Wrong Orbit In Bungled Launch
Jeff Bezos' space company had one job and failed spectacularly.
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Upcoming Schumacher Short Film Features Homebuilt F1 Car
"The Kaiser" centers on Schumacher's early seasons in F1, his unlikely 1991 debut as a Jordan substitute and his tenure at Benetton over the following years.
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How Thick Does Lake Ice Have To Be To Support A Car's Weight?
It's a nine-inch minimum for a small car.
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Gordie Howe Bridge Officials Are Trying To Avoid Riling Up 'The Kooks And Crackpots' With Opening Date
Neither Canada nor the United States can afford to have Trump block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge.
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Pilots Meow And Bark At Air Traffic Controllers Below 10,000 Feet, Prompting FAA Investigation
Sadly, you don't have to look that far into the past to see how crucial air traffic control communications are to safe airport operations.
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Global Starlink Outage Tanked U.S. Navy Drone Boat Test
The incident highlights how reliance on a single system could threaten our military capabilities, especially when that system could be shut down by Elon Musk.
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Chevron Exec Says You Should Just Drive Less Instead Of Investing In Renewable Energy
We've built a society and lifestyle around driving, which means folks can't simply drive less, giving this statement from Walz real "let them eat cake" energy.
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Southwest Airlines Teases First Class Seats, Burying Its No-Frills Tradition
Moving Southwest Airlines upmarket is clearly a move to increase revenue, but only time will tell if the carrier's long-time passengers will stick around.
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Delivery Drivers Are More Likely To Speed If You Tip Them More, Study Finds
If you add a little extra cash to the cost of your food delivery order, your food may arrive sooner, but at what cost?
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United Airlines Pitched Mega Merger With American Airlines To Trump
The last time any airline had more planes than United-American was when Aeroflot had a state monopoly on domestic flights within the Soviet Union.
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Ayrton Senna's First F1 Car Will Be Auctioned Off This Month
Senna raced the Toleman TG183B-05 in the four opening rounds of the 1984 season in Brazil, South Africa, Belgium and San Marino.
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Pointless Police Chases Kill 10 People In A Single Week In The U.S.
Four of those killed were neither law enforcement nor fleeing the police.
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As Artemis II Heads To The Moon, We Look Back At The Rovers That Made Lunar Exploration Possible
Apollo's legacy is still visible in the tire tracks etched along the lunar surface.
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Artemis II Crew Faces First SNAFU In Space: A Broken Toilet
The system itself is so loud that astronauts have to wear hearing protection when they use it.
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NTSB Recommends Ford BlueCruise Changes After Fatal Crash Investigation
Despite what some drivers believe, an advanced driver assistance system can't allow any vehicle to truly drive itself.
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Apache Helicopters Flew Over Kid Rock's House After No Kings Protest And Pete Hegseth Says 'Carry On'
The scheduling of Saturday's training flight might have been a coincidence, but the actions of the pilots once they climbed into the cockpit weren't.
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Starlink Satellite Explodes In Orbit, Yet Another Moment Of SpaceX Engineering Excellence
There are roughly 10,000 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit, over a third of all the tracked objects in that part of space.
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These Are The Problem Car Parts You Wish Were Indestructible
The top responses followed a predictable pattern.
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Oliver Bearman's 50G Crash Could Force Changes To F1's Divisive New Cars
A big speed differential that was a part of Sunday's Formula 1 crash could be a tipping point for the rules and regulations regarding this year's cars.
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2,540 Colorado Drivers Ticketed For Camping Out In The Left Lane Last Year
Colorado welcomes all campers, except for the left-lane kind.
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McLaren Reveals That A Software Glitch Bricked Lando Norris' Battery
The battery failure has already put Norris in a precarious position during the season's early stages.
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What Problem Car Part Do You Wish Was Indestructible?
There's always a story behind grudges with certain components, and we want to hear them all.
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NASA Wants Twice-Yearly Flurry Of Missions To Build Moon Base
NASA is gradually becoming a government-funding chamber of space commerce.
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