Serving beer sky-high

If you're traveling on certain UK airlines in 2009, your drinks cart may be offering freshly-poured beer.

Thomsonfly and First Choice Airlines, which recently merged operations, have contracted for 23 Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger planes to be delivered in 2009.

The Press Association of the UK reports that "Barrels of beer on the drinks cart to enable travellers to enjoy freshly-poured pints is one of the ideas being considered by (these) UK airlines" as part of the service on the new planes.

On a sort-of-related topic, if you'd like to learn how to make an airplane from used beer cans, just go here for step-by-step instructions.

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