NASA's KC-135 aircraft, or the "Vomit Comet", used by astronauts and scientists to prepare for weightlessness, has been withdrawn from service.

Crews have cleaned up at least 285 gallons of vomit from the cabin over the years, even though the jocks and boffins were issued with this bag.

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Thanks to Steve Silberberg for this news.

Australian bagcarrier Qantas has been taken over by film processor Extrafilm.

Extrafilm's bags have replaced the sad white bags that disappointed passengers have found in Qantas seat pockets since 2004. The white bags appeared after the end of National Photo's contract with Qantas.

The Extrafilm deal further extends the range of Qantas bags. The airline was already one of the most prolific bag purveyors in the skies. Each National bag carried a code number and expiry date, to prevent budget-conscious photographers from hoarding bags and availing of more than their fair share of cheap photo processing. That meant a myriad of different bags for baggists to delight over.

Extrafilm's bags don't appear to have an expiry date, and the only clue that they are distributed by Qantas is the Q1 near the top right corner.

Thanks to Roger Macrae for this news and the bagscan. Anyone got a spare to trade?

Plastic dogshit bags are sturdy, flexible and easy to carry. But are they a murder weapon?

In March 2004, I received an email from the Scientific Police Institute at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. A young man had been found strangled, and police suspected that traces of plastic under his fingernails might be from a dogshit bag. Could I please send samples from my collection to use as a comparison?

Eager to further the cause of justice, I chopped little samples squares from my French, German, Swiss and Italian doggy bags and shipped them off to Lausanne.

I've just learned that the plastic did not in fact come from a dogshit bag.

So dog owners and baglovers alike can breathe a sigh of relief: dog owners can continue to pick up pooch poop without fear of ending up in a police file.

And dogshit baggists can still steal bags without stirring suspicion.

Local authorities might wish to cut crime on their streets by converting their dogshit bag dispensers, though. After all, it's hard to throttle someone with a paper bag.

Those delightful designer bags from Virgin Atlantic have been pulled from circulation.

Virgin no longer distributes its Limited Edition on flights across the Pond, according to a report on eBay.

Relatively few of these items have been offered on the barter market, so eBay remains one of the few places to get them. There are currently two full sets of 20 bags on offer on the online auction house. The links are here and here.

Recent prices for full sets have hovered around the £1 a bag mark.

April 2005's bagsite is Fred's Airsickness Bags.

Belgian collector Fred Courtay's stylishly designed site displays over 100 bags.

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Eminent bag researcher Roger Macrae has been delving into those mysterious serial numbers that appear on the Klick photobags used by UK and Irish low-cost carriers. He asked Klick's Customer Services unit for information:

Here's Klick's response: