News and notes from around the interweb:

• Australia may introduce nude-o-scopes for domestic flights and join the War on Water (100ml liquid rules). Because ‘terrorism’. Big money for contractors, and as Randolph Bourne said ‘war is the health of the state’.

  
  Domestic Security Checkpoint at Brisbane Airport

• Diners Club 20% bonus on Virgin Atlantic transfers

• East Hampton officials want to close their airport. They can study this all they want under Part 161, but it’s still going to require FAA approval.

• Airbus A350 makes a near-vertical takeoff (HT: JT Genter)

• Russian Pilots of the Congo. (HT: One Mile at a Time)

• Landing at Telluride..