(CNN) — This week in travel news, a new high-speed train is unveiled in Europe, an RAF plane carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin sets a new aircraft tracking record and a Canadian family collects “visual memories” around the world before three of the children lose their sight .
The UK mourns Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth visited more than 120 countries during her 70-year reign: she saw regimes change, countries form and dissolve, the end of the British Empire and the rise of globalization. Here are some of her most memorable trips around the world.
And even now, she’s still setting travel records: the plane that carried her coffin from Edinburgh to London on September 13 became the most tracked ever on aviation website Flightradar24. This may interest you : 10 Best Dogs in Video Games, Ranked.
Many tributes to Queen Elizabeth can be expected in the coming weeks and months, but one of the earliest aviation-related honors came from France: the small coastal airport Le Touquet-Paris-Plage has been renamed after the late queen.
Trains and planes
In the US, Amtrak canceled long-distance rail routes ahead of a proposed freight strike that – at the time of writing – had been averted after a deal was struck. Then on Friday, hundreds of European planes were hit by an air traffic control attack. Disruptions are also expected on Monday as London’s Heathrow Airport said some flights would be canceled or delayed to keep airspace quiet during events to mark the Queen’s funeral.
European rail had a better week: French rail company SNCF and train manufacturer Alstom unveiled the first completed TGV M, a next-generation high-speed double-decker train that Alstom has dubbed “the TGV of the future. This may interest you : USC QB urges Malachi Nelson to sign with Klutch Sports, report.”
And in Asia, cafes on Hanoi’s popular “train street” – where trains rattle along a track just a whisker away from homes and businesses – have been ordered to close on September 17, with shopkeepers reportedly given just days’ notice. .
Life in US skies
Surveillance and body cam video shows a man walking into Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s baggage carousel and into a restricted area. This may interest you : Military lifestyle tips civilians should embrace.
A retired nurse helped save the life of a baby who had stopped breathing on a Spirit Airlines flight between Pittsburgh and Orlando. Tamara Panzino was able to revive the 3-month-old and says within minutes she knew “we were home free.”
Not all passengers have been so helpful. A New York woman was recently sentenced to four months in prison after she and her co-defendant engaged in “unruly and intimidating behavior” on an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Los Angeles in February 2021.
Asian record-breakers
The 326 meter high glass Bailong Elevator is located in one of China’s national parks, which many believe inspired the scenery for the hit movie “Avatar”.
At 326 meters (or 1,070 feet), the Bailong Elevator in China’s Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is the world’s tallest outdoor elevator. It offers breathtaking views of the park’s towering karst formations, which are said to have inspired the setting for the 2009 movie “Avatar.”
Going higher again, South Korea’s highest restaurant, 123F Lounge, is located on the top floor of Seoul’s Lotte World Tower, 555 meters above the ground. That’s what it’s like to eat there.
And finally, at 800 meters, the world’s longest outdoor escalator system is located in Hong Kong’s central business district. The Central-Mid-Levels Escalator is a chain of moving stairs and walkways that crosses 13 busy streets and is built on a hillside. Watch here.
Living in the moment
Three out of Edith Lemay and Sebastien Pelletier’s four children have been diagnosed with a rare genetic condition that causes vision loss or decline over time. So the family travels the world now so the kids can collect precious “visual memories” for the future.
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Top photo: SNCF’s TGV M high-speed train is unveiled at the Alstom factory in La Rochelle, France, on September 9 (Xavier Leoty/AFP/Getty Images)
