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Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns, tracing the path of airplanes, is beautiful! The video is the paths of air traffic over 24 Hours North America.

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The deregulation of the airline industry in 1978 led to a wave of mergers that continues to this day. But even as the legacy carriers have been consolidating and growing, they have been losing market share to low-cost carriers. Two of them, SouthWest and AirTran, have just agreed to merge and carried the most passengers in 2009 combined.

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The planned operating life of space probes Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 has already expired but they continue working.

The Concorde supersonic passenger airliner was first flown on March 2, 1969.

A brand new hot air balloon with essential flight components costs at least $19,000.