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+29 +5Carbon Emissions From Airlines Could Drop by 38% This Year
Airlines’ carbon emissions could drop by more than one-third this year as travel demand sinks, a trend that could continue as businesses reassess their need to fly, according to the Australia Institute.
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+14 +3As coronavirus fears soar, Europe moves to ban wasteful "ghost flights"
If you're reading this article, you probably know that flying is one of the most carbon-intensive actions an individual can take in a given year. Air travel normally accounts for approximately 2.4 percent of the world's carbon pollution. The novel coronavirus, which has temporarily flatlined flying demand worldwide, has the potential to reduce aviation emissions this year.
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+20 +5Norway pushes to electrify all domestic flights by 2040
Those that live in the most northern part of Norway could see fully electric planes in the skies within the next 10 years.
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+18 +2Flying Car Developers Get a Boost From the Air Force
The Pentagon wants to make sure the fledgling electric aviation industry doesn't follow the path of small drones and move offshore.
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+14 +2New FAA drone rule is a giant middle finger to aviation hobbyists
More than 34,000 people have deluged the Federal Aviation Administration with comments over a proposed regulation that would require almost every drone in the sky to broadcast its location over the Internet at all times. The comments are overwhelmingly negative, with thousands of hobbyists warning that the rules would impose huge new costs on those who simply wanted to continue flying model airplanes, home-built drones, or other personally owned devices.
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+19 +4There's a huge fight over reclining your airline seat. Is capitalism to blame?
Recline or don’t recline – it’s your call. But remember: the greed of airlines in shrinking space to reap profits makes them the true villains
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+19 +3Inside the Pentagon's Secret UFO Program
The government can't keep its story straight about its involvement with UFOs. After a yearlong investigation, we reveal the staggering truth.
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+4 +1Why the Cessna Is Such a Badass Plane
In December of 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made history with their bi-plane contraption that managed to do the seemingly impossible: it gave man the ability to fly. The concept was so unearthly, in fact, that private aviation first took off not as a means of transportation, but as a sideshow of sorts. In those pioneer days, seeing a man use technology to overcome gravity was such a novelty that early aviators made their living mostly through exhibition flights.
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+13 +1The Super-Rich Are Being Scammed on Their Private Jets
With dozens of invoices attached to a single flight, overcharging can slip through unnoticed.
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+19 +3Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests
Airbus on Tuesday unveiled a curvaceous aircraft design.
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+21 +3Storm helps plane beat transatlantic flight record
The BA Boeing 747-436 reached speeds of 825 mph in the jet stream accelerated by Storm Ciara.
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+2 +1Boeing found another software bug on the 737 Max
Boeing is working to fix yet another software bug on its 737 Max, Bloomberg reports. The glitch involves an indicator light for the "stabilizer trim system," which helps raise and lower the plane's nose. The light was turning on when it wasn't supposed to. Boeing is already resolving the problem, and it still expects the 737 Max to resume flying by mid-2020.
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+10 +1How Kobe Bryant’s Helicopter May Have Crashed
Low visibility due to clouds and fog and rugged, rising terrain have killed many helicopter pilots in similar conditions over the years.
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+4 +1Boeing: US regulator 'pleased' with 737 progress
The US regulator for airline safety has said he is "pleased" with progress made by Boeing as it works to get its 737 Max plane re-approved for flight. The aircraft has been grounded since March 2019, following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people. Boeing recently said the jet might not return to service until mid-2020.
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+19 +5Starliner’s thruster performance receiving close scrutiny from NASA
Nearly one month ago, Boeing completed the first orbital test flight of its Starliner spacecraft with a near-perfect landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. The mission had to be cut short due to a well-publicized timing error that delayed the spacecraft's service module from performing an orbital insertion burn. This caused the thrusters on board the service module, which provides power to Starliner during most of its mission, to fire longer than expected.
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+17 +2Boeing Employees Mocked FAA In Internal Messages Before 737 Max Disasters
Employees bragged about getting approval for the jets without having to give pilots much new training. One employee says, "This airplane is designed by clowns who ... are supervised by monkeys."
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+1 +1Iran says it will not give black box from crashed airliner to Boeing
Iran’s aviation authority has said it will not hand over flight recorders from the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed moments after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew onboard, either to the aircraft’s manufacturer or US aviation authorities.
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+32 +5The 1997 merger that paved the way for the Boeing 737 Max crisis
Only now, with the plane indefinitely grounded, are we beginning to see the scale of its effects.
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+4 +1Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes in Iran killing all aboard, according to state news agencies
A Boeing 737 passenger plane operated by a Ukrainian airline crashed minutes after take-off from Tehran killing all on board, Iranian news agencies said Wednesday.
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+13 +210-year-old boy forced to take off clothe before boarding a flight over snake picture
A New Zealand family said their 10-year-old son was forced to take off his T-shirt and wear another one before boarding a flight because it had picture of a snake on it. On December 17, Stevie Lucas embarked on a family trip from New Zealand to South Africa to visit his grandparents. His parents Steve and Marga said security officers at Johannesburg airport told them snake toys and printed clothing was not allowed on board.
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