Aircraft
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Live Nude Pics of the 787
People have been talking about Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner for so long that first flight always seems so far away. That’s far from…
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Holy Engine Problems, Batman
And now for a brief lesson on aircraft engines. This is what a GE CF34-3B1 engine on a Mesa Airlines CRJ in…
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ANA Goes Upscale
Looks like a sweet ride, huh? To your left is what the first 737-700ER will look like in the colors of ANA.…
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How Much Stress Can a Wing Take?
I’ve had friends come back from vacations with harrowing stories about turbulence so bad they thought the wings were going to fall…
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Not Your Father’s 747
The 747 has been around for a long time. In fact, the 747-100 had its first commercial flight with Pan Am 37…
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Northwest Says Aloha to the DC-10
DC-10 Retirement – 01-07-07 – 01 – 017 Originally uploaded by NWA Moments. Yesterday morning, Northwest flight 98 arrived in Minneapolis/St Paul…
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Random Bits of Info
It’s time once again for the completely irregular segment I like to call random bits of info. There have been a bunch…
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The Silent Plane is Years Away
There is a lot of buzz this morning about the new so-called “Silent Aircraft” that was announced by The Cambridge-MIT Institute. Sure,…
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What do the NFL and the 787 Have in Common?
A friend of mine passed along a link to a column today from Gregg Easterbrook posted on ESPN’s website. (Click here.) I…
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Free Internet in the Sky Through Year-End
In the past, I’ve discussed how Boeing had decided to shut down it’s Connexion in-flight internet service, but I didn’t mention that…
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Those Funny Pointy Things at the End of the Wing
US Airways announcement today that they’re adding winglets to their 757s made me think it’d be a good time to repost an…
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The New Role of 757s – Northwest Bumps Up European Flying
The 757 is an aircraft that missed its calling. It was supposed to be a replacement for the 727 back in the…