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2014-10-22
 

Touch N’ Go: Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made, Vintage Pan Am + More #AvGeek Goodness!

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Written by: NYCAviation Staff
(Touch N’ Go is a collection of our favorite AvGeek news, pictures, videos, tweets & more from the day.)


 

AvNews:

Air New Zealand  celebrates the third & final film in The Hobbit Trilogy with “The Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made” [YouTube]

✈ Boeing and Chinese firm to turn “gutter oil” into jet fuel. [AFP]

✈ Brazil’s Embraer unveils new KC-390 military transport. [Channel NewsAsia]

Today in Aviation History: India launches lunar probe, Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashes, the modern parachute is born + more! [NYCAviation]


 

#AvGeekiness:

Vintage Pan Am commercial:

 

Cockpit TOTD:

 

 Check out this week’s #AvGeek Events: Air shows, races & expos.



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