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3 French Guys Created A Titanium Seat That Could Save Airlines Millions Of...
Saving fuel is a key concern for airlines, and one of the main reasons United and other carriers have switched over to lighter seats on some aircraft.Those seats, made by Germany's Recaro, have the...
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Congress Is Getting Ready To Make Big Decisions On Commercial Drones
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is on the verge of proposing long-awaited rules for commercial drone operations in U.S. skies, but key decisions on how much access to grant drones are likely...
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It's Rare For Planes To Crash When AirAsia's Did
AirAsia Flight QZ8501 disappeared about 45 minutes after takeoff.Malyasia Arlines MH370, which vanished without a trace earlier this year, also went down well after it had left the runway and entered...
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AirAsia's CEO Turned A 29-Cent Investment Into A Billion-Dollar Empire
The disappearance of AirAsia Flight 8501, which was carrying 162 people, could be the third major tragedy of the year for Malaysia's airline industry.Despite this alarming fact, AirAsia actually has a...
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It Would Be Expensive And Unnecessary To Track All Airliners In Flight
Let's see if we can square away some of this “tracking” business that has been getting so much attention.Christopher Drew, in a December 29th op-ed in the New York Times, said that “Airlines use...
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Boeing Delivered Over 700 Planes In 2014
(Reuters) - Boeing Co. said it delivered 195 commercial airplanes in the fourth quarter and 723 planes in the whole of 2014.Boeing had delivered 186 planes in the third quarter.The company delivered...
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Divers Are Searching The Sea Floor For AirAsia Wreckage
Pangkalan Bun (Indonesia) (AFP) - Indonesian search officials sent divers down to the bed of the Java Sea during a break in bad weather Tuesday in hopes of recovering more bodies from the wreckage of...
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What Everybody Gets Wrong About Commercial Aviation
Few things mix more poorly than commercial flying and the mainstream media.Seldom is an aviation article free from some measure of distortion, exaggeration, or at times outright nonsense.If you caught...
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The Pentagon Still Wants To Scrap The A-10 Despite Widespread Opposition
The Pentagon renewed its commitment Friday to retiring the Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt ground attack aircraft and closing excess military bases in the US, setting up another battle with Congress in...
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The Second Black Box Has Been Retrieved From The Crashed AirAsia Plane
The second black box has been retrieved from the AirAsia plane that crashed over the Java Sea, according to the Associated Press.The box was found 100 feet deep, buried beneath the plane's destroyed...
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Here's What It's Like Inside The F-35's Cockpit Simulator
I am often amazed at my timing, good or bad. Today I was definitely in the right place at the right time and found myself walking up to the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning II cockpit demonstrator — the...
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Searching AirAsia Wreckage Has Been Very Tough For Divers
Pangkalan Bun (Indonesia) (AFP) - Clinging desperately to underwater ropes, an Indonesian search leader said his divers appeared to be "flying like Superman" as they scoured the seabed in the gruelling...
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Divers Have The Grim Task Of Finding Bodies Of AirAsia Victims
Pangkalan Bun (Indonesia) (AFP) - Indonesian divers on Thursday headed to the main body of an AirAsia jet that crashed last month, hoping to recover more victims from the disaster, a day after it was...
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GE Just Bankrolled A Rival
When the Airbus A350 jet made its commercial debut with Qatar Airways this week, the event marked a milestone for engine supplier Rolls-Royce, but slipping unnoticed under the radar with financing was...
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Incredible Aerial Photographs Of New York City Taken At An Astounding Height
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet has spent the past 15 year taking daring helicopter rides to capture some of the most incredible aerial images from around the world. But his latest...
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The F-35 Just Hit Another Snag
The F-35 has hit the latest obstacle in its years-long, multibillion-dollar slog towards combat-readiness, Bloomberg reports, citing a not-yet-public congressional report. Software flaws pose the...
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The A-10 Has Carried Out 11% Of US Airstrikes On ISIS, Even Though The Plane...
Despite multiple attempts by the US Air Force to retire the A-10 Warthog, the aircraft has carried out 11% of all airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria since Operation Inherent Resolve began in...
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This Is What Commercial Flight Looked Like 101 Years Ago
Just over a century ago this month, commercial aviation was born. The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line operated the first scheduled airline flight, a 23-minute hop across Tampa Bay that covered 18.6...
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This Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Could Be The Future Of The US Army's Helicopter Fleet
The US military wants to upgrade its stable of combat choppers.One possible model for future combat aircraft can take off and land vertically, and then fly like a traditional airplane.Bell's V-280,...
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