Here's a handy moon-spotting site, also appears to contain a lot of useful information about islamic dates
http://www.moonsighting.com/
For aviation matters, you can often find interesting chatter here on the PPRuNe Forum (Professional Pilots Rumour Network)
http://www.pprune.org/forums/
Currently discussing the 747 crash in 'Rumours and News'
They also had a thread a while back talking about the B727 that was nicked in Africa a couple of years ago.
Great links UK Guy, thank you.