"United 93," Paul Greengrass's brilliant movie about that downed flight, released in April, was almost austere in its use of anonymous actors and limited-point-of-view shooting.
It is a member of the cluster munitions family — one of the so-called submunitions carried inside a larger canister that opens in flight, releases bomblets and distributes them to the ground below.
He's landed one of the meatiest roles of his career in Robert Zemeckis's Flight (released last week), playing Whip Whitaker, the substance-abusing pilot who lands a malfunctioning plane while high as a kite.
Quite a bit of kerfuffle was generated -- as it always is -- when a DePaul University study, "Tablets Take Flight," released earlier this month, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration "found no actual evidence that a consumer electronic device can affect airplane operations".
Migratory orientation was recorded with two different techniques, cage tests and free-flight release tests, during autumn migration.
The Save Concorde Group (SCG) wants British Airways to either help fund a heritage flight, or release an aircraft to someone else who will.
An international team investigating the downing of flight MH17 released its preliminary conclusions on Wednesday.
Flight controllers released the parachute slightly earlier to give it more time to brake its descent.
Flight records released by the governor's office yesterday show that in 1999 and 2000, Mr. Pataki used state aircraft for at least 315 flights.
Flight (also released in 1929) was notable for Capra's insistence on staging and filming all of its aerial action without tricks or special effects.
