using a beam swinger system and a well collimated neutron flight channel.
The most obvious is the ability to follow flight paths in real-time via Google maps integration on your Flytrex personal "Flight Channel".
As the space we're allocated on planes narrows, squeezing us up against our neighbours, we retain a notional privacy thanks to the monitor fitted to the seat in front: the body remains in prison, but our eyes can flicker through a hundred interchangeable in-flight channels.
Other plans include an on-board "kids' club", where crew will endeavour to keep kids entertained with arts, crafts and quizzes on flights to First Choice Holiday Villages or Thomson Family Resorts; and in-flight channels will feature a bedtime story for young children and entertainment aimed at teenagers.
This is bolstered by Virgin's offering a Giants in-flight channel and, in 2012, most Giants game broadcasts will offered fleet-wide via the carrier's in-flight satellite television.
The programming is amazingly extensive and hip (I spent my entire flight flipping channels and watching new releases and Hollywood classics, and the WiFi works domestically as well as internationally.
On the plane over to LA, I watch Atonement again on the in-flight movie channel.
Often there are days when 10,000 passengers on 120 flights are channelled through the 2,800 m2 terminal, counting as one of the highest peak loads worldwide in this category.
1909 - Bleriot's cross-channel flight Airship feat "The feat of flying across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine, a thing which had never before been done, was accomplished yesterday morning by M. Louis Bleriot, in a monoplane of his own construction".
In 1909, the French pilot Louis Bleriot made aviation history by completing the first cross-Channel flight from Calais to Dover.
The following five years, from Blériot's Channel flight to the beginning of World War I, were a period of spectacular growth and development in aviation.
