Pilot

IDF says ‘No’ to Arab pilot

by Haitham Sabbah January 10, 2006

Army rejects Muslim teen’s request to join pilot training course; youth sent to paratroopers instead Yossi Yehoshua – Ynetnews No Arab pilots for now: The IDF’s Personnel Directorate has decided to reject the request of an18-year-old Arab Muslim from northern Israel who sought to join the army’s prestigious pilot training course, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth [...]

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Hanadi al-Hindi: The first Saudi woman to gets a pilot’s license

by Haitham Sabbah June 17, 2005

(Guardian) Saudi women cannot drive, but apparently they can fly. A Saudi woman who recently obtained her pilot’s license in Jordan said Thursday she has been hired by a private aviation company to fly commercial planes. Although proud of her career, Capt. Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi said she expects an angry reaction when she arrives back [...]

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Israel Funding Terrorism

by Haitham Sabbah January 26, 2005

Why would Israel provide covert support for Islamic fundamentalist extremists? The answer to this provocative question points toward a dirty little secret that the major media in America is keeping under wraps. There is a solid record of evidence pointing to ward a longtime—albeit little-known—role by Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad, in providing financing and [...]

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Car-Tracking Device (GSM/GPS Wireless) Trades Privacy for Dollars

by Haitham Sabbah August 19, 2004

Imagine this. You’re driving around in your HOV (highly ostentatious vehicle), and you follow your normal route home. The next day, you are notified by your insurance company: “Under the terms of Court Order 34/FKC/34 paragraph 12 subsection iii, your auto insurance is void.” It turns out that you drove within a mile of the [...]

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Private Space Travel?

by Haitham Sabbah June 14, 2004

Dreamers Hope a Catalyst Will Rise From the Mojave Desert. One week from today, from a runway in a barren reach of the Mojave Desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, Burt Rutan will try sending a pilot higher than anyone has ever flown in a private plane. A longtime designer of innovative aircraft, he [...]

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Our Brains Cheat During Learning

by Haitham Sabbah March 11, 2004

Brain Can Switch to “Automatic Pilot” During Learning New studies suggest that humans might prefer to switch their brains to automatic pilot whenever possible to conserve their cogitating resources. For example, when learning skills such as arithmetic, the brain doesn’t necessarily reach back into its basic calculating skills for each problem, suggested the researchers who [...]

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