Flight of the Day

1. Geert de Clerq on the new design for flight attendant call button on the new B737 interior at Yahoo! News. At last, here's one design passenegrs will love.

2. Give it to the birds, again. The future of UAVs might depend on how engineers copy the design of birds' wings, at ScienceDaily.

3. A new look at bolt design, at ScienceDaily. A new study suggests how to determine the optimum force to be applied considering the variations of temperature. Consider this: The A380 wing has 750,000 bolted joints.

Flight of the Day

1. Jeff Hecht on Top 10 Weapons of the Future at NewScientist. It's sad advances in technology are utilized for weapons production. And two of the top 10 involve advances in aviation and aeronautics.

2. Duncam Graham-Rowe on the 50 Years of DARPA at NewScientist. Find out the two spectacular achievements of DARPA in aeronautics in its 50-year history. And others which may just surprise you...

3. Bob Christie of the Associated Press on the fate of the more than 6,000 B737 Classics all over the world after that Southwest Airlines roof-ripping accident at Yahoo! News.