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A Georgia college student died instantly when he walked into the still-spinning propeller of a small airplane he had rented for a dinner date, officials said. Georgia Southern University sophomore Sani Aliyu, 21, was hit in the head twice at Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport on Sunday night after he got off a plane piloted by two friends who had taken him and a woman to nearby Savannah, according to officials and reports. “They flew to Savannah to go on a date, flew back, landed at the Statesboro Airport, and the young lady got off the plane, and he got off the...

For one fleeting moment, the Hélica—a plane without wings and an “unsteerable murder machine”—looked like the future of transportation. Good thing it wasn’t. ______________________________________________________________________________________ In 1909, Marcel Leyat, an engineer from the tiny mountain town of Die in southeastern France, designed and built his first airplane. Not long after, he ran out of money. The young engineer had trained in aeronautics, only to find his skillset obsolete in a market controlled by the military; bespoke airplanes were a dying business. Undaunted, Leyat turned his attention to the pursuit of his real dream: building what he called a “plane without wings.”...

A friend of mine, a photographer took this photo on a recent road trip. She doesn't know much about it, she just liked the look of it. It was on the side of a hwy at a place that sells old stuff, junk and antiques. Guy there, told her it was used in Vietnam. When I asked her about that, she doesn't know if he meant this particular plane was used in Nam, or if this type of plane was used in Nam, or if that was in reference to it being used during Vietnam war. I did quite a...

MARCH 24--Meet Natalie Peterson. The 23-year-old Utah woman was arrested yesterday afternoon when she showed up naked to take a shower in a stranger's home. According to cops, prior to Peterson wandering into the home in Roy, she had been in an argument at a relative's house. There, she stripped off her clothes and jumped into her '98 Ford Escort and drove off. A half mile away, Peterson walked into a house occupied by three young siblings, who she ordered to leave "her home." Peterson told the trio she was going to take a shower and headed for the basement....

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Abortion-message pilot slices off fingers, crashes. Man dumps leaflets over high school before getting hand stuck in propeller -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 1, 2003 4:05 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The pilot of a paraglider dropping leaflets with a message about abortion severed two fingers in his aircraft's propeller blades before crashing onto a high-school campus. Michael Grumbine treated by paramedics for severed fingers (Whittier Daily News) According to California's Whittier Daily News, Michael Grumbine was flying a Paralite Sky Cruiser over La Serna High School during sixth period Thursday, releasing bright yellow, pennant-shaped leaflets referring...