A plane crashed Wednesdat in northwestern Iran. Iranian state television reported. All 150 aboard are believed to be dead.

The passenger plane is thought to have crashed near the Iranian city of Qazvin, Iranian Press TV reported.

All on board are “most probably” dead, the news station said, quoting Qazvin Police Chief Hossein Bahzadpour.

The crash occured near Jannat-abad village, near Qazvin.

Warplanes.com is giving away a wide selection of handcrafted model planes to our friends on Twittersphere to showcase one of the major reasons why we’re still the number one in the model plane industry – and that’s having modelers with the highest level of craftsmanship.

This contest is open to all twittizens especially aviation enthusiasts, model plane collectors or simply anyone who just wants to own one of these eye candies. If you win, you can pick any model plane you want included in this list.

How to enter:

Simple! Just insert the hashtag #warplanes into your tweet(s) as often you want without being obliged to talk about us, Warplanes, at all. That’s just a way to track the tweets of our participants.

We will announce the winners on Twitter so follow Daniel (@warplanes_rock) to keep yourself in the loop!

This  contest will only run for 7 days from the starting date, that’s July 15th through 21st. All entries/tweets coming in after July 21, 2009 shall not be credited.

Selection of Winners:

7 winners of model planes and 10 consolation prize winners of discount coupons ($50 off on custom model’s sale price) will be randomly selected at the end of the contest period and will then be contacted the following day. The lucky ones must supply Warplanes with his/her name, mailing address and telephone numbers. Prizes will be shipped upon receiving the said information.

Note:

Prizes such as model planes and discount coupons are not convertible to cash. We are doing this just for fun and to give everyone a chance to own a model airplane from Warplanes, but if less than 100 people joined the contest, we have the right to change the rules and give away a smaller prize or extend the time limit. So please help spread the word by retweeting! Thanks so much and good luck!:)

Last September, SpaceX was successful in getting Flight 4 into orbit but this time the space start-up has successfully put a commercial payload into orbit.

SpaceX was a joint development program of the Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn.Bhd. of Malaysia and SaTReCi who co-developed the RazakSat satellite. A little over an hour into the flight of the Falcon 1, it was confirmed that the second stage rocket had been restarted, deploying the satellite into its correct orbit.

This launch comes hot on the toes of space shuttle Endeavour’s fifth scrubbed launch earlier in the day, but there was very little warning that the Falcon 1 would be taking to the skies from Kwajalein Atoll. SpaceX rarely gives much advanced warning of their launches, and Flight 5 was just as mysterious as the previous flights. But that didn’t take away from the suspense leading up to a flawless blast off (after a short delay due to bad Pacific weather). Later this year is the planned inaugural flight of the larger Falcon 9.

Congratulations SpaceX!

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HOUSTON, Tx – Continental Airlines Inc. said on Monday that it has installed DirecTV on 15 planes in its domestic fleet.

The airline said it is aiming to eventually install DirecTV on 200 of its Boeing 737s and 757s.

The systems offer 77 channels. Continental said DirecTV is free in first class and cost $6 per flight in coach where applicable.

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