"You'll see airliners becoming more efficient," said van der Linden.
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The woman has since deleted her Twitter account, but Airliners.
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TO, accusing it of dumping airliners in the American market.
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Today, commercial airliners fly at some 30,000 to 35,000 feet.
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AIRLINES HAVE remarkably little choice about where to buy their airliners.
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He compared algorithms to the automatic pilot systems in commercial airliners.
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THE manufacture of airliners may be the world's most globalised industry.
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The PHMSA regulates hazardous materials on airliners along with the FAA.
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Some of the airliners are dismantled and broken down for reuse.
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Eventually, a beefier variant might also be developed for jet airliners.
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Together, both airplanes comprise nearly half of the world's 28,2.53 commercial airliners.
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They could not act as pilots on airliners or other commercial flights.
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However, neither the Boeing 737 MAX or other airliners are completely automated.
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The plane does not suffer the problems of many Soviet-era airliners.
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"This missile flew through busy airspace used by commercial airliners," he said.
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Supersonic airliners with 100 or more seats would be commercially more risky.
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Rogozin said Russia could provide Sukhoi Superjet airliners for Iraq's civil aviation.
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On Thursday it said it delivered 176 airliners in the first quarter.
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Sukhoi wants to sell its Superjet airliners to a market starved for transportation.
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The FAA investigates all incidents in which U.S. registered airliners experience engine problems.
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British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Norwegian are all big customers for its airliners.
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Instead, it uses Boeing 747-400 airliners pulled for the Air China fleet.
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The airline's core business is the wet leasing of airliners around the world.
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Plus, a new generation of wide-body American airliners was on their way.
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In the early 1990s, Airbus launched two new widebody airliners with mixed results.
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An earlier version of this article erroneously attributed an ability to modern airliners.
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Plus, a new generation of wide-body American airliners was on their way.
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In the early 1990s, Airbus launched two new widebody airliners with mixed results.
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Washington fears they could be seized by jihadi groups and used against Western airliners.
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But, to all intents and purposes, making airliners is at the moment a duopoly.
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Airliners that mix batteries and fossil fuel could dominate the skies in the future.
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Boeing accuses Bombardier of selling airliners in the U.S. market at artificially low prices.
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Italy will close its airspace to Boeing 737 Max 8 airliners from Tuesday night.
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Most commercial airliners already spend most of their time being controlled by an autopilot.
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You see them in smaller airplanes more often, in big airliners not very often.
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Airliners currently fly with two separate recorders; one for data and one for voice.
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The aircraft features a unique 3-2 configuration not commonly found on modern airliners.
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Hawaiian confirmed that it has canceled its order for six Airbus A210-2787neo airliners.
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But large electric airliners are a long way off, if they ever become reality.
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Commercial airliners are designed to be able to fly even if one engine fails.
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Many of the Western-built airliners in Iran date from the 1970s and 1980s.
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Until then, all 371 Boeing 737 Max airliners already delivered to customers remain grounded.
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Here's a closer look at some of the most controversial airliners in recent history:
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It has tried at least three times to blow up American airliners, without success.
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The court originally came into possession of three airliners, though only two managed to sell.
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This limits supersonic planes to oceanic routes, further reducing their ability to be mainstream airliners.
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Yet operating drones near airliners is one of those situations where strict liability is warranted.
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There were plenty of time slots available in which airliners could take off and land.
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As small drones have become increasingly commonplace, so have reports of close calls by airliners.
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Imports of airliners plunged by 50.7 percent on a slowdown in deliveries of U.S. aircraft.
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During the 1970s, Airbus' A300B was the new kid in the world of commercial airliners.
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Years ago, Hawaiian placed an order for six Airbus A330-800neo widebody airliners on order.
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Unforeseen calamities happen in complex systems — banks are robbed, airliners crash, car engines blow up.
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Ten passengers flew into US airports on commercial airliners and were later diagnosed with coronavirus.
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As turbofan technology improved, smaller three-engine airliners such as the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10...
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And then there are those bold enough to convert commercial airliners into opulent flying palaces.
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Planes, specifically Bombardier CRJ airliners, couldn't physically lift off the ground at 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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"We strongly support that view, as MANPADS can easily be hidden in the trunk of a car or even in a golf bag, making their proliferation a serious threat to civilian airliners in the region — including Israeli airliners — and across the world," the lawmakers wrote.
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Volcanic ash above 20,000 feet is a threat to airliners flying between Asia and North America.
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Several of the men who plotted to blow up transatlantic airliners in 2006 were from Birmingham.
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"We just knew that airliners were running into places they shouldn't be running into," he says.
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The energy required to get to altitude means airliners are less fuel-efficient in short flights.
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High-bypass turbofan engines are wider than the turbojet engines that were common on 1960s airliners.
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But ultimately airliners and cruise ship operators constitute a relatively small percentage of the overall economy.
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There is no way to attain perfect aviation security from terrorism except by grounding all airliners.
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Standard airliners have cabin altitude pressure of around 8,000 feet where the humidity levels are low.
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Without access to global supply chains, U.S. companies would export fewer cars, airliners, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.
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Today, the Boeing 777 is one of the most popular long-haul airliners in the world.
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The Qaeda branch has tried at least three times to blow up American airliners, without success.
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It was already making Radaranges for commercial use, including the preparation of frozen meals on airliners.
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But some customers have decided to convert commercial airliners from Airbus and Boeing for private use.
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This satellite group is responsible for providing high-speed, mobile broadband service to airliners, ships, and more.
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State planners have set a goal of a 10% domestic market share for Chinese airliners by 2025.
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By comparison, the Concorde flew at Mach 2.0 and most of today's airliners fly at Mach 0.85.
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Few of those who die on Iran's airliners have anything to do with the country's authoritarian rulers.
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That makes these headphones an essential accessory for any traveler who wants the best performance on airliners.
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, nearly 1 billion passengers boarded U.S. airliners in 2016.
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Yet no one is yet sure of how much of a threat they pose to commercial airliners.
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Allegiant Air had been criticized for operating an aging fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series airliners.
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Most of the rise was accounted for by the delivery of several airliners from the United States.
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A Navy news release that describes the AOGs said the concept had proven successful with commercial airliners.
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Today, airliners can fly direct routes, such as from Little Rock to Chicago, when they are overland.
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Since 9/11, there have been no terrorist attacks or attempts whatsoever on airliners leaving American airports.
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The CSeries, however, is in almost direct competition with the smallest airliners made by Boeing and Airbus.
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He also said that Ukraine had banned flights through Iranian airspace by its airliners from Jan. 9.
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He also said that Ukraine had banned flights through Iranian airspace by its airliners from Jan. 9.
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But bigger planes, the jet airliners that dominate commercial air travel today, are an entirely different story.
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"You have to have the infrastructure to power thousands and thousands of airliners," said van der Linden.
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In 2015, the latest year for which America's Department of Transportation has figures, 35 animals died on airliners.
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Government authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere have warned about the dangers of drones potentially colliding with airliners.
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But when it comes to large civil airliners, they would be hardly impressed by the choice on offer.
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Although China cannot yet make high-quality commercial airliners, it could divert purchases to Airbus, a European manufacturer.
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In 1955, Pan Am purchased a number of Boeing 707s, the first commercially successful airliners to be manufactured.
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With no training on how to shoot down airliners, they had to come up with a plan themselves.
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If, for example, China were to raise tariffs on Boeing airliners, Boeing's European rival, Airbus, could take advantage.
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Airliners and cruise liners are opening routes to Havana, monetizing the demand among Americans to visit the island.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who crashed airliners in New York, outside Washington and in Pennsylvania on Sept.
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All 737 MAX airliners are grounded until regulators around the world approve the new software and training protocols.
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Internationally, airliners contribute over 2 percent of total global carbon emissions — more than most nations in the world.
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Commercial airliners have advanced autopilot systems that fly the plane for most of its time off the ground.
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Images on local television showed two airliners at the end of taxiway with emergency vehicles at the scene.
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If China is the target, it might cancel orders for Boeing airliners and buy from Europe's Airbus instead.
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"It normally is very easy for trained antiaircraft units to distinguish civilian airliners from military jets," he said.
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Thirteen Lebanese civil airliners were destroyed in an Israeli commando raid on Beirut International Airport last Dec. 28.
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China has broad ambitions to compete with the United States and Europe in the business of flying airliners.
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Yet it can't manage to put together an airline that isn't heavily stocked with Cold War-era Russian airliners.
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Specifically, 10 different individuals are said to have conspired to steal technology related to turbofan engines in commercial airliners.
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This earnings season has already highlighted gains from traditional airliners like United Continental, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines.
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The general view in the industry is that battery technology is not yet up to building fully-electric airliners.
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It is showing off five of its airliners in Paris, unlike Boeing which is able to display only one.
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But that momentum, crucially, was not maintained despite multiple other attempts to blow up airliners and conduct other attacks.
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In the viral video age, some airliners and other service-based industries, have begun implementing new training for employees.
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Airline engineers and plane historians don't expect airliners to change that much in the next quarter century or so.
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"We saw the footage of these airliners crashing into the Trade Center and we were absolutely stunned," Penney recalled.
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Private jets offer users flexibility as, unlike commercial airliners, they are not constrained by arrival and departure time slots.
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And though the cameras have been on airliners for several years, most passengers did not seem to notice them.
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South Korea told commercial airliners to avoid flying in areas of the rocket's possible flight path during the period.
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As the number of emotional support animals aboard airliners proliferates, a veteran's service dog sometimes gets a bad rap.
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The action comes after two nearly brand-new Boeing 7373 Max 8 airliners crashed within a matter of months.
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Other airliners that ran into trouble include the de Havilland Comet, McDonnell Douglas DC-10, and the Airbus A320.
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No other U.S.-based airline holds similar regular sales, but there are various industry collectible shows like Airliners International.
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Taiwan also has a history of viewing Chinese airliners as a Trojan horse for military threats against the island.
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In 19603, 21960 million passengers boarded airliners in the United States, 27 million more than in the previous year.
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Norwegian Air currently operates 118 Boeing 737 and 787 airliners with another 260 Boeing and Airbus jets on order.
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The most recent of these are a pair of converted 747-200B airliners, which the Pentagon officially calls VC-25s.
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The numbers are still tentative, but among other things, Boeing is selling around $40 billon worth of airliners to China.
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AQAP has proved itself in the past to be technically innovative in finding new ways to plant explosives on airliners.
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Earlier this year, a drone pilot in Hangzhou was arrested for flying a DJI Mavic Pro dangerously near civilian airliners.
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And so most airliners maintain a cabin pressure equivalent to the one we experience at 2787,2777 feet above sea level.
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Stucky said he has flown people before on commercial airliners, but he noted they weren't exactly excited to be there.
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But no one is keener to strut their stuff than Airbus and Boeing, the world's two biggest makers of airliners.
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After two recent crashes of Boeing 737 Max airliners, he tweeted that "airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly".
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These two were the last firms in the West with even a nominal claim to be independent makers of airliners.
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Mitsubishi Aircraft is getting closer to launching the first Japan-made airliners in more than half a century: the SpaceJet.
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On September 26th the Department of Commerce pencilled in tariffs of 220% on airliners made by Bombardier, a Canadian manufacturer.
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Boeing, an American aeroplane-maker, claims that Bombardier used government subsidies to sell its new C-series airliners below cost.
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He loves invading other nations , annexing territories that don't belong to Russia, shooting down civilian airliners and arming America's enemies .
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The information centered on attempts by terrorist groups to load bombs into laptops in an attempt to blow up airliners.
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Boeing's relationship with Canada has soured since it complained that Canadian planemaker Bombardier was dumping airliners on the American market.
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From across the nation, private planes and commercial airliners ferry veterans to the capital to see the monuments honoring them.
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Chicago-based Boeing is one of two companies that dominate the building of large airliners; Europe's Airbus is the other.
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At the same time, engineers in the US and the Soviet Union were working on supersonic airliners of their own.
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It includes a variety of wide-body commercial airliners that have been converted into VIP transports including Airbus A330-200s, ...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel flies on one of two Airbus A5003-2500 airliners, known as Konrad Adenauer and Theodor Heuss.
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But jihadist terrorist organizations have demonstrated their continued determination to attack commercial airliners on their way to the United States.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Trump tweeted that airliners today are too complex to fly, which would be news to airline pilots.
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A spokesman for Boom said 20103,000 to 2,000 Overture airliners could be flying within the first 10 years of service.
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They can send fighter jets to supersonic speeds or airliners halfway around the globe with hundreds of passengers on board.
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And there seems to be two schools of thought on more pilot involvement or more automated systems for commercial airliners.
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Had there not been effective screening in Brussels, the bombs would likely have been on airliners, not in the departure hall.
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The market analysis included planes ranging in size from light jets which can take just 4 passengers up to converted airliners.
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In September, the U.S. Treasury Department advanced the deal forward by granting Boeing and Airbus licenses to sell Iran commercial airliners.
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IT USED to be the world's two biggest makers of airliners that would invariably deliver new designs late and over budget.
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Canada also imported fewer aircraft in June, aircraft dropped 54.9%, largely because of fewer imports of airliners from the United States.
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Church bombings, downed airliners, and security concerns at major historic sights are just three of the factors behind plummeting visitor numbers.
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Why it matters: NASA says a lithium-air propelled electric plane could reduce airliners' operating costs by 30%, plus reduce emissions.
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" Cohen says that seat width on U.S. airliners "has shrunk from 18 inches in the 1970s to about 16.5 inches today.
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Poland closed its airspace to Boeing 737 Max 8 airliners from Tuesday evening and grounded its own fleet of the planes.
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Then, as she watched the first tower collapse after two airliners crashed into the World Trade Center buildings, her heart dropped.
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Today's commercial airliners typically travel between 550 and 590 miles per hour, far short of the 767 mph speed of sound.
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Pompeo said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has taken actions at airports in response to "perceived threats" to commercial airliners.
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Still, Boeing's lead in the field of commercial airliners, which looked almost unassailable a decade ago, is under threat from Airbus.
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Despite the skepticism of supersonic and hypersonic planes being commercially viable, there is a resurgence in interest in ultra-fast airliners.
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Poland closed its airspace to Boeing 737 Max 83 airliners from Tuesday evening and grounded its own fleet of the planes.
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Boeing is expected to sell 80 airliners worth $17.6 billion with deliveries set to begin in 85033 and finish in 2025.
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Battery-powered devices, from laptops to hoverboards, could pose a fire risk to airliners when stowed, airlines and regulators have warned.
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Airliners are designed with redundant systems to act as back-up for failures, so this airplane had more than one ADM.
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Even so, there are realizable ways (that don't require the stuff of science fiction) to radically slash carbon emissions from airliners.
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A drawback to streaming, however, is that airliners will not gain access to movies before they are released for home viewing.
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Those are allowed in the cabin of airliners up to a maximum of 160 watt-hours and only under certain conditions.
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He said the FAA considers the spacing between seat rows when testing to make sure that airliners can be evacuated safely.
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Total imports fell by 1.4% as deliveries of U.S. airliners plunged by 82.7% in April after a 50.7% drop in March.
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The bigger game is that, if China can manage to build its own airliners, the lessons can be applied across other industries.
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Its master bomb-maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, is believed to have orchestrated at least three plots to detonate explosives aboard commercial airliners.
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China's aviation regulator was the first to act, instructing its domestic airlines on March 11th to ground all their 737 MAX airliners.
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And there's this: Increased turbulence would likely mean airliners will try to avoid certain areas, resulting in added fuel and other costs.
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According to indictments, Mr. Guzmán smuggled billions of dollars in drugs aboard jet airliners, fishing boats and submarines into the United States.
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The Russian President has also been known to fly on a fleet of smaller executive aircraft based on Tupolev TU-214 airliners.
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The international regulatory body for commercial aviation on Thursday approved a sweeping market-based system to limit greenhouse gas emissions from airliners.
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In Washington, officials urged U.S. commercial airliners flying over the waters of the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to exercise caution.
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AQAP has plotted to down U.S. airliners and claimed responsibility for 2015 attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
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Just like commercial airliners, warplanes are usually pressurized to match a constant altitude inside the aircraft no matter how high they fly.
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Brandi Lange is an operations manager for Logistic Air, one of the companies that own or maintain former airliners at Pinal Airpark.
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Airlines have limited alternatives, as Boeing and Airbus are the primary manufacturers of airliners used by most of the world's commercial carriers.
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Over the past few decades those trends have transformed airliners and cars, which have become networks of computers with wings or wheels.
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On Tuesday, the F.A.A. barred American airliners from flying over Iran, citing the risk of commercial planes being mistaken for military aircraft.
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With built-in screens, airliners provide passengers with a set menu of content through boxes that power the in-flight entertainment system.
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It leaves behind just one fully-integrated tour operator in Europe that still owns shops, airliners and hotels itself: TUI of Germany.
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The group has plotted to down U.S. airliners and claimed responsibility for 2015 attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
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That fundamental difference in energy density is a big reason we're unlikely to see large commercial airliners powered by batteries fill the skies.
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Jets have indeed strayed off course because of software glitches; airliners have been taken for military probes of air defences and shot down.
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It is also slashing unit costs by deploying larger aircraft: its new stretched Airbus A321neo airliners have 41 more seats than Ryanair's Boeings.
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Although the Samsung phone's battery is different to those in airliners, Boeing faced similar issues with lithium-ion batteries in their Dreamliner aircraft.
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The number of jet airliners flying may double by 2040 as people, particularly those in Asia who do not fly now, get richer.
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According to the department, Chinese intelligence officers and their operatives worked to steal the technology behind a turbofan engine used in commercial airliners.
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This follows news of its partnership last week with Boeing to install the first touch screens in the cockpits of next-generation airliners.
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But in a humiliating spectacle, Emirates pulled out the deal and ordered 40 Boeing 787-10 airliners made by its American arch-rival.
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Furthermore, the model selected to replace the old VC-25 airliners, the Boeing 747-8, has a list price of just $379 million.
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Carrie Fisher's heart failure aboard a United jet is the latest fatal incident in what has become a real problem on commercial airliners.
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Boeing Co edged up 0.2 percent, extending the previous day's gains, after the planemaker unveiled software fixes to defend its 737 MAX airliners.
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Despite learning on a (simulated) Cirrus light aircraft, the machine proved adept with the airliners and fighter jets also available in the database.
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Humes compares the carnage to that of four airliners crashing every week — rarely making headlines or prompting investigations or fines or legal reforms.
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"I think probably not in my lifetime," Tinseth said Sunday, in response to the question of whether airliners would face competition from hyperloop.
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United Kingdom aviation investigators reported more cases of drones nearly hitting commercial airliners, highlighting the danger of flying drones at a high altitude.
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Iconic airliners from yesteryear including the Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 line the taxiways and parking areas of the isolated airfield.
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Read More: Delta, American, and other airlines are parking planes on closed runways at major airports as carriers struggle to store grounded airliners
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Attendees were not distracted by cars blasting loud music, and the commercial airliners overhead, ascending from Kennedy International Airport just across Jamaica Bay.
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Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch is widely considered the militant group's most dangerous worldwide affiliate, with a particular focus on blowing up commercial airliners.
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But the White House has exempted major aircraft parts from the tariffs to buffer U.S. airliners and Airbus' U.S.-based plants from harm.
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Multinationals in the Baja California city manufacture everything from Coca-Cola drinks to Apple smartphone chips and sections of Boeing's latest jet airliners.
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For reference, commercial airliners fly subsonically, just below Mach 1 whereas modern fighter jets can travel supersonically at Mach 2 or Mach 3.
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The government is considering removing restrictions that currently allow foreign groups to hold up to 20 percent in local airliners, according to Monteiro.
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It unsuccessfully plotted to blow up U.S.-bound airliners and claimed responsibility for a 2015 shooting at the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
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The fact that American butts are getting bigger would be less of a problem if the cheap seats on airliners weren't simultaneously getting smaller.
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Earlier this week, two Chinese intelligence officers, computer hackers and others were indicted for cyber attacks aimed at stealing engine data for commercial airliners.
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We've see this pattern in airliners but never in birds, so this suggests that some of our ideas about bird flight might lift off.
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Ultra-hardline Islamists have targeted airports, airliners and tourist sites in Europe, Egypt, Tunisia and other Middle Eastern countries over the past few years.
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But America rejects this idea because of the danger that they would be used by terrorists to shoot down passenger airliners around the world.
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Ultra-hardline Islamists have targeted airports, airliners, and tourist sites in Europe, Egypt, Tunisia, and other Middle Eastern countries over the past few years.
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The president should reverse this and bar any new aircraft from reaching Tehran until Iran stops fueling Syria's civil war with its commercial airliners.
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Encounters have been reported by other military aircraft and civilian airliners elsewhere in the U.S. and abroad, too, including videos shot by airline passengers.
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Iran urgently needs modern, safer and less-polluting airliners after decades of being unable to obtain spare parts or new models due to sanctions.
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The UAE's airline industry alone has created hundreds of thousands of jobs for U.S. workers through its purchases of commercial airliners and associated equipment.
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The group has plotted to down U.S. airliners and claimed responsibility for last year's attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
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Although the trade deficit almost doubled to C$1.09 billion ($845 million), that was partly due to one-time imports of five new airliners.
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Every day, thousands of airliners crisscross the air corridors over the Atlantic, ferrying tourists and business men between megacities like New York and London.
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By definition, hypersonic vehicles travel at speeds of one to five miles per second — or up to dozens of times faster than modern airliners.
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Supersonic transports could eat into the airline industry's effort to reduce its footprint because the planes consume more fuel per passenger than existing airliners.
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Airliners fly on carbon-rich fuel and will largely fly on this fuel through the 2020s, if not much of the 2030s, at least.
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The airline industry is built upon thousands of expensive, extremely sturdy, fuel-gulping airliners that are designed to last for around half a century.
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The enforcement action against the Boeing jet comes after two 737 Max 8 airliners crashed under strikingly similar circumstances in a matter of months.
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Every vision of the future of flight involves electric aircraft—air taxis hopping from one skyscraper to the next as airliners cruise silently over oceans.
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The 2610 Max series aircraft were grounded soon after the Ethiopian crash, as Boeing scrambled to get one of their newest airliners cleared to fly.
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JUST BEFORE the fall of the Berlin Wall in 22, the Soviet Union built 150 airliners a year, around a fifth of the world's total.
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It provides free 15-minute flights in small planes to girls and young women who have never flown or who have only flown in airliners.
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AQAP, based in Yemen, has plotted to down U.S. airliners and claimed responsibility for 2015 attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
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AQAP, based in Yemen, has plotted to down U.S. airliners and claimed responsibility for 2015 attack on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
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The order is expected to cover 10 fuel-saving A320neo narrow body airliners and three of the previous version of the A320, the sources added.
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NUMBER OF THE DAY 219.63% That's the tariff the Commerce Department wants to slap on airliners delivered to the US from a Canadian plane maker.
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The standoff ended when Cuba accepted that for the time being at least, Cuban airliners will still not be able fly to the United States.
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Mr. Reagan's Cold War battles merged with the coda, which showed the hijacked airliners hitting the World Trade Center and people jumping to their deaths.
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The technology is improving, but one estimate shows that electrification of airliners will only start to make a dent in air travel emissions by midcentury.
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The crisis took an alarming turn last week when the Emirates accused Qatar's warplanes of harassing two Emirati passenger airliners as they crossed the Gulf.
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Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers crashed airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Each seat also had its own in-flight entertainment system that, though weren't the high definition screens found on modern airliners, were loaded with content.
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With modern airframes and turbofan engines becoming exponentially more reliable, US and international regulators relaxed rules that limited the routes twin-engine airliners could fly.
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Since airliners fly between 30,000 and 43,000 feet, air needs to be pumped into the airplane to keep the interior pressure at a survivable level.
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As part of the deal, Boeing is expected to sell 80 airliners worth $17.6 billion with deliveries set to begin in 2017 and finish 2025.
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"At the end of the day, China will require airliners from both Boeing and Airbus, and it's only the timing that gets affected," Taylor said.
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The crashes, the grounding of the fleet, and the public furor make the Boeing 737 Max one of the most controversial airliners in recent memory.
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He overheard and revealed Operation Tshura, in which Israeli forces destroyed 14 Arab airliners in Beirut in retaliation for terrorist attacks on El Al planes.
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Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg on Thursday said Iran's demand for airliners was real, and the prospect of a major order there was moving closer.
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It was originally just meant to be a cargo-carrying jet; supersonic airliners were thought to be the future of aviation when the 747 was born.
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WHEN passengers board an aircraft, only a few care whether it was built by Airbus or Boeing, two giants that make all the world's big airliners.
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We had the FAA have a team in Shanghai to teach them how to build airliners safely on the theory that we all want airline safety.
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Once an aircraft is more than 240km out to sea, airliners then use equipment like high-frequency radio to keep in touch with air traffic control.
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The database shows some good news, like the fact that commercial airliners collide with animals way less frequently than they used to just 15 years ago.
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One major issue that has been under consideration is the potential safety implications of storing large numbers of laptop batteries in the cargo holds of airliners.
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A vast network of people on the ground, often amateur enthusiasts, use commercially available equipment to pick up real-time data emitted by airliners flying overhead.
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As for the seemingly innocuous issue of selling Iran airliners, there are now credible reports that Iran's commercial aircraft play a leading role in supporting terror.
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Lawmakers increased the minimum number of flight training hours to 1,500 hours for first officers who want to obtain a license to fly commercial passenger airliners.
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Providing sources and methods to Russia can change the dynamic in the region and cause ISIS to speed up its plans to blow up commercial airliners.
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The A340 launched at the end of the four-engine era, when airliners began to favor two-engine planes thanks to increased range and fuel efficiencies.
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Boeing's interest in Embraer grew after Airbus, its archrival, formed a partnership with Bombardier in October to make and sell the CSeries of medium-range airliners.
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The takeoff/go-around switch found on modern airliners help control throttle on takeoff, aiding the pilot focused on controlling the aircraft's flight path and altitude.
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US-headquartered airliners had to change the pulldown options in their checkout flows to avoid mentioning Taiwan last year, lest they lose access to Chinese airspace.
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The airline industry is a significant part of the problem: In the U.S. for example, airliners are responsible for 12 percent of the nation's transportation emissions.
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Lawmakers increased the minimum number of flight training hours to 85033,500 hours for first officers who want to obtain a license to fly commercial passenger airliners.
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If the trade deficit falls during the Trump administration because sales of American-made automobiles, jet airliners or services overseas boom, that will be great news.
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US companies have huge manufacturing operations in China and it is an exploding market for US goods, from cars and airliners to iPhones and even Hollywood movies.
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Mr Miyanaga, it seems, hopes that his regional jet will be the start of a string of Japanese airliners made by Mitsubishi in the decades to come.
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Canada and the United States are also arguing over Canadian exports of airliners as well as the system of tariffs and duties that protect Canadian dairy farmers.
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In addition, unlike in other markets, such as the United States, China does not allow people to convert private flying licenses to commercial certificates for flying airliners.
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This could be achieved by starting with smaller hybrid airliners, such as those carrying 2500 or so passengers on regional routes, and then scaling the technology up.
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It has tried to bomb several Western airliners and claimed responsibility for an attack on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last year.
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Last week Boeing made clear it would not back down in its fight against Bombardier, which it accuses of trying to dump airliners on the U.S. market.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an advisory to U.S. commercial airliners flying over the waters of the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to exercise caution.
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Dennis Muilenburg, the chief executive, offered to give up much of his compensation for 2019 in the wake of two fatal crashes involving Boeing 737 MAX airliners.
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The rule requires co-pilots to have 1,85033 hours of flight training experience under their belt before they can get a license to fly commercial passenger airliners.
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An Iranian official said Sunday that his country has negotiated with Boeing to buy 80 new airliners for about half of the announced price, according to Reuters.
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Airliners are built to fly long distances at high altitudes, but are less efficient when taxiing, taking off and landing for these relatively short flights, Kumar said.
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It simply was embarrassing to the FBI because it showed the bureau was aware of al Qaeda terrorist plots targeting airliners well before the 9/11 attacks.
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The flight was operated on a four-engine flying boat that could land on water if need be, a luxury that most modern airliners do not have.
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Island hopping was a common practice in the early days of transpacific flying, with the propeller aircraft of the time not having the range of today's airliners.
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That's because big airliners — which make up around 95 percent of commercial aviation emissions — will continue to burn liquid fuels, at least through much of the century.
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Shares in the company, which makes engines for large airliners, lost 4% in early trading, making the company one of the top losers in Britain's bluechip index.
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On Tuesday, hours before the crash, the F.A.A. barred American airliners from flying over Iran, citing a risk that commercial planes would be mistaken for military aircraft.
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He is among five men suspected of conspiring to help hijackers slam airliners into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on Sept.
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Overall, airplanes have an outsized role in emitting carbon, as airliners contribute over 2 percent of total global carbon emissions — more than most nations in the world.
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For example, a Boeing 777, among other airliners, has a ram-air turbine, a propeller-looking device that deploys automatically if the plane's hydraulic systems fail completely.
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"When we learned of a passenger airliner almost touching down on a taxiway occupied by four other airliners, we elected to launch a full investigation," DeLisi said.
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It highlighted figures showing there was a greater risk of airliners being hijacked than deliberately crashed, with more than 1,000 cases to date, compared with four suicides.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — China has ratcheted up the pressure on Taiwan, an island democracy that it views as a breakaway province, by deploying a new tool: civilian airliners.
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Taiwan immediately criticized the new route, calling it a security and safety risk because it runs close to air space used by Taiwanese airliners and military aircraft.
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As it stands now, Boeing, the only American aircraft maker still building sufficiently big airliners, plans to convert its latest 22024 model, the -8, into the special transports.
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Our trusty, long-lived, old-school airliners are only replaced after decades and decades of service — by lighter, increasingly efficient planes with sleeker interiors, but never anything faster.
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Cyber security has emerged as a major issue for commercial airliners and other aircraft as the U.S. aviation system evolves to technology based on wireless and internet connectivity.
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Boeing opened its first completion plant for 737 airliners in China in December, a strategic investment aimed at building a sales lead over its European arch-rival Airbus.
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has issued an advisory to U.S. commercial airliners flying over the waters of the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to exercise caution.
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But even the best lithium-ion cells are still far from being able to power the workhorses of civil aviation: short-haul airliners carrying 22022 or so passengers.
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Delta and JetBlue, a low-cost carrier, have also been vocal in attacking tariffs proposed by Mr Trump's administration on C-Series airliners made by Bombardier of Canada.
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But ships are also exposed to interference through electronic navigation devices such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and lack the backup systems airliners have to prevent crashes.
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Driving the news: U.S. diplomats warned commercial airliners on Saturday that they may be at risk of being "misidentified" when flying over the Persian Gulf, the AP reports.
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It tested for the first time last month a 3,000-metre runway built on a reclamation on Fiery Cross Reef by landing several civilian airliners from Hainan island.
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It uses 230 separate engines to deliver 24 million pounds of thrust at liftoff — approximately the force of 230 airliners — and it can haul 141,000 pounds into space.
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It uses 27 separate engines to deliver 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff — approximately the force of 18 airliners — and it can haul 141,000 pounds into space.
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Imports gained 1.5 percent to a record C$51.82 billion, as imports of aircraft soared six-fold from December, reflecting the arrival of airliners from the United States.
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Mr. Clarke said the technology could be scaled upward for commuter or regional airliners, and NASA is investigating using fuel cells rather than batteries to provide the electricity.
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US service members deploying to the Middle East often take civilian airliners to countries like Qatar, where they are then transported to their final destination via military aircraft.
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Orders for each company's airliners, however, are expected to be smaller this year as the industry faces headwinds including a slowing global economy, climate change and safety concerns.
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Various efforts are under way to automate air-traffic-control systems so that air taxis, piloted or autonomous, can be merged with flights by airliners and light aircraft.
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Seven C-17 large transport planes are being dispatched from Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina and two C-5 Galaxy airliners are coming from El Paso.
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Ramon will have a 3.6-km (2.2-mile) runway able to accommodate the largest airliners while King Hussein's runway length is a more limiting 3.1 km (1.9 miles).
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That allowed Airbus and Boeing to adapt their smaller airliners to use the unusually fuel-efficient and quiet engine technology that Bombardier had hoped to introduce to the market.
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For comparison, a 747 has a maximum ceiling of just over 45,000 feet, but most airliners will cruise at around the same altitude this tiny drone managed to reach.
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In that attack, known as the "Bojinka plot," terrorists led by 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef tested the new idea of using chemicals to blow up airliners.
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Boeing opened its first completion plant for 737 airliners in China in December, a strategic investment aimed at building a sales lead over its European arch-rival Airbus (AIR.PA).
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Boeing opened its first completion plant for 737 airliners in China in December, a strategic investment aimed at building a sales lead over its European arch-rival Airbus (AIR.PA).
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In 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation abandoned a possible peanut ban on planes because of a law blocking changes to peanut policy on airliners without further scientific study.
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But the goal is to fly at Mach 1.4 or 1,100 mph (almost double the speed of current airliners) and be completely inaudible when cruising at 40,o00 feet.
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Imports gained 1.5 percent to hit a record C$51.82 billion, as imports of aircraft soared six-fold from December, reflecting the arrival of airliners from the United States.
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Three runways have recently been completed and China last month announced the first successful test landings of civilian airliners on the new 3,000-metre airstrip at Fiery Cross reef.
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People would not be able to take cash from ATMs (ATMs use a GPS timing signal), all commercial airliners would be grounded and many smart technologies would go dark.
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Increased security has made it more difficult to hijack or sabotage airliners, but the public portions of airports, check-in counters and baggage pickup areas, are open public spaces.
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However, with the 747-400 becoming increasingly dated, Beijing is reportedly working on a converting one of Air China's 747-8 Intercontinental airliners into a full-time presidential jet.
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Australia and Singapore announced Tuesday that they would ground all new Boeing 737 Max airliners after a second deadly crash involving one of the passenger jets killed 85033 people.
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In other words, it's a retirement home of sorts for grounded airliners whose time has come as newer, younger planes take their place in airline fleets across the world.
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Together, the two would have an estimated $74 billion in sales, and would produce F-35 fighter jets and Pratt & Whitney jet engines, which are used in Airbus airliners.
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Models from the 737's second generation, introduced in the 1980s, and the third generation, first produced in the 1990s, are among the world's most popular and safest airliners.
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The focus on getting Boeing 737 Max airliners flying again has been tweaking software that was supposed to prevent stalls but instead was linked directly to two deadly crashes.
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On Tuesday, we learned that this ally was Israel, and that the intelligence reportedly involved information about Islamic State plots to blow up airliners with bombs planted in laptops.
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Commercial airliners now carry 26 percent more passengers than they did just a decade ago, and flew over 1 trillion passenger miles for the first time ever in 1603.
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Slattery called Embraer's E-Jet E2 — its series of medium-range twin-engine jet airliners — a "profit hunter," and wants to deliver that aircraft to more airlines in Asia.
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CityJet has a further firm order for an additional seven Superjets and options on 16 more and said the Russian airliners would ultimately replace its existing Avro 85 fleet.
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The International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations agency that oversees the industry, forecasts that the worldwide commercial fleet will double, to about 40,000 airliners, in the next 19403 years.
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China has tried to enter the market for airliners with the ARJ-21, a regional jet, and the C919, an aircraft that looks remarkably similar to Airbus's short-haul aircraft.
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Sargent, speaking to an Ottawa conference organized by the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, noted recent U.S. moves to impose duties on Canadian softwood lumber, commercial airliners and some paper products.
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However, these test aircraft will only be half the size of commercial airliners and will only have room for the pilot, which is why the above image looks so small.
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If we can protect our money in banks, Sean, we have said this before, if we can protect our airliners, for God sakes we have to protect their school children.
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Amazon made its debut at the Paris Air Show this week, showing off one of the converted Boeing 737 freighters, painted light blue and nestled among passenger carriers' new airliners.
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It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and the most lethal attack on American soil by Islamist militants since the suicide hijackings of jet airliners on Sept.
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It has already challenged Airbus and Boeing, the world's two makers of big airliners, to build aircraft that can fly the much longer route between London and Sydney by 2022.
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But the administration official insisted that no one involved in the meeting expressed alarm regarding the President's comments, which reportedly focused on an ISIS plot to bring down civilian airliners.
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The 2 minutes and 44-second-long video failed to capture the entire story, but considering the recent complaints and footage against commercial airliners, it was enough to go viral.
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It would not take much, for example, to turn airliners into drones, but passengers are reassured by the presence of a flight crew, so this is unlikely to happen soon.
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Ramzi Yousef, one of those charged with bombing the World Trade Center in 1993, is convicted in 1996 for the bombing and for plotting to blow up 22014 US airliners.
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Fun fact, two Boeing 747-8 airliners that were due to be delivered to Transaero before its shut down will be converted into the next generation US presidential planes, aka.
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Last week Boeing issued a statement making clear it would not back down in its fight against Bombardier, which it accuses of trying to dump airliners on the U.S. market.
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The new passenger routes come close to airspace used by Taiwanese airliners and military planes at a time when Chinese military drills encroaching on Taiwan's airspace have become increasingly common.
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Known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, it is widely considered the terrorist group's most dangerous worldwide affiliate, with a particular focus on trying to blow up commercial airliners.
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The window seat on most airliners is often the furthest from the aisle, giving flyers a modicum of protection from the germ highway that extends the length of the aircraft.
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For someone like Trump -- for whom branding is religion and who emblazoned his name on skyscrapers, hotels airliners, golf clubs and casinos all over the world -- it must especially sting.
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Among stocks trading premarket, Boeing Co fell 0.6 percent ahead of a scheduled briefing on its 737 MAX airliners for pilots and airline representatives in Washington later in the day.
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As a result of the crashes, the grounding of the fleet, and the public furor, the Boeing 737 Max has become one of the most controversial airliners in recent memory.
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Although the death toll after two hijacked airliners crashed into the Twin Towers was 2,753, the remains of more than 1,000 people remain unidentified, to the dismay of their grieving families.
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As for the F-303's launch time, it seems that this mystery aircraft was moving fairly fast—at least at the same speed of the airliners around it or greater.
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Hanlon's mind raced back 15 years when he and hundreds of other first responders rushed inside the World Trade Center after terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the North and South Towers.
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Fifteen years ago, the United States changed forever when four airliners crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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The agreement, valued at $10.8 billion at Boeing list prices, comes at a time when Turkish Airlines is looking to strengthen fleet capacity to meet demand for the wide-body airliners.
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And 3D printing could undermine export controls or sanctions if Iran can print parts for its Boeing airliners instead of relying on the U.S. and other Western powers to provide them.
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Later on Friday, the Defence Ministry said it had also signed a $523.6 million agreement with Boeing to supply three 737-800 airliners for the use of senior Polish state officials.
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On Monday, the administration announced that it would press the W.T.O. for a special hearing demanding "the rapid enforcement" of the organization's favorable rulings on exports of airliners and solar products.
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Its name not only graced the sides of massive airliners, but also New York City skyscrapers such as the Pan Am Building, now the MetLife Building, that acted as its headquarters.
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The rule change rendered modern three-engine airliners like the McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 obsolete overnight as they carry less than four-engine jets and were less efficient than twin-jets.
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More important, Mr. Desch said, that kind of real-time global information would allow the assignment of more efficient flight paths for airliners while still making sure they stay safely apart.
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After two crashes of its 737 MAX airliners, which killed 346 people and were linked to a defective flight-software system, the bestselling model was grounded around the world in March.
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At issue is a law that requires co-pilots to have 1,500 hours of flight training experience under their belt before they can get a license to fly commercial passenger airliners.
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Because of persistent claims that the trade center was destroyed by a "controlled demolition" rather than the hijacked airliners, it also published a frequently asked questions document that summarized crucial findings.
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The use of airliners also follows a Chinese strategy of relying on nonmilitary means to assert its sovereignty in other disputes in the region while avoiding a full-blown, armed confrontation.
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Drake's refueling in the Caribbean before his Raptors take on the Warriors in the NBA Finals -- flying down in his massive new jet ... which is a monster compared to other airliners.
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In case your thought is, "Hey, at least I'll be a few inches closer to those seat-back screens," well, American has already announced they're taking those out of the new airliners.
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For the day, the best gainer was airliners, which soared after reports that China Southern Air Holding Company planned to push mixed-ownership reform by introducing strategic investors, in particular internet enterprises.
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South Korea's two major airliners — Korean Air and Asiana Airlines, will each carry 100 tonnes of eggs, for a total of 2.98 million, said two industry sources with knowledge of the matter.
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Americans traveling to Cuba to make films or record music, to organize professional meetings, or to work on cruise ships or airliners will be authorized to make the trips and spend money.
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The Brazilian minister said the decision by Globalia to start air transportation services in Brazil followed a regulatory change allowing foreign companies to control airliners in the country, something not previously possible.
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"Hybrid propulsion is an industry-changing solution, enabling mid-sized aircraft on regional routes to have better cost efficiencies than airliners," said the company's founder and CEO, Ashish Kumar, in a statement.
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The company also said on Thursday it had deferred the delivery of several wide-body Boeing and Airbus jets, in the latest sign of oversupply in the market for long-distance airliners.
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Obama and Xi also agreed to work together to seek international agreement on policies to reduce planet-warming hydrofluorocarbons and get a worldwide deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from commercial airliners.
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"We need a kind of Airbus for AI," Altmaier told a digital summit, referring to the 1970 launch of the European planemaker that went on to make half of the world's airliners.
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Reuters reported last week that the Liberals would walk away from the 18 Boeing jets after Boeing opened a trade challenge against Bombardier, accusing Bombardier of dumping airliners on the American market.
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Sales of large four-engine airliners like the 544-seat A3803 have been hit by improvements in the range and efficiency of smaller two-engined models, which can be easier to fill.
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Sales of large four-engine airliners such as the A380 have been hit hard by improvements in the range and efficiency of smaller two-engined models, which can be easier to fill.
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Investigators have not said whether the same technology had emerged as a possible cause of Sunday's crash in Ethiopia, although both involved airliners that mysteriously plunged to the ground minutes after takeoff.
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Experts said that if airliners are going to rely on consumer electronics for in-flight entertainment, the carriers should be prepared to offer another amenity: outlets for passengers to charge their devices.
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"Japan and various European countries are working on civilian uses of the technology, such as space launch vehicles or civilian airliners, but civilian uses can be adapted for military purposes," Speier noted.
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And it has put a new focus on whether the F.A.A. has been aggressive enough in monitoring Boeing in an era when technology has made airliners both remarkably reliable and increasingly complicated.
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Their economic consequence wasn't just from resources lost like fuel and boosters, but in public relations (given the 737 Max controversy, another system failure doesn't exactly give airlines confidence in Boeing airliners).
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Shank describes 6,000 meters as a boundary where a great, sudden change in species occurs thanks to the crushing pressure, a pressure he described as 16,747 airliners plopped on top of a dime.
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His co-founders are Matt Knapp, an engineer who has helped build jets and rockets, and Kiruba Haran, a University of Illinois professor who leads a NASA-funded program to develop electric airliners.
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In December Canada cancelled an order for over $5bn of Boeing's fighter jets in retaliation for its failed attempt to get tariffs of nearly 300% put on imports of airliners made by Bombardier.
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It also doesn't share the jet engines of airliners, instead traveling through the skies at a leisurely 30 mph, making even the short hops between European countries fairly grueling experiences for its pilots.
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KSM travelled to the Philippines in 28500 to work on the Bojinka plot, a Manila-based plot to destroy twelve commercial airliners flying routes between the United States, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.
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The company sent over a quarter of its total airliners to China last year, where Boeing estimates demand for new airplanes in the next 20 years will reach $85033 trillion worth of planes.
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Air Canada Flight 759 had been cleared to land on runway 103L but instead mistakenly lined up for the parallel taxiway C, which was occupied by four airliners awaiting clearance to take off.
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Beijing could also declare an air defense zone over parts of the South China Sea, forcing civilian airliners to make long and expensive detours to avoid risking encounters with the Chinese Air Force.
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JetBlue, seeking to get ahead of looming restrictions on airliners' greenhouse gas pollution, has agreed to buy more than 3003 million gallons of renewable fuel over 10 years, the company said on Monday.
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The lawmakers argue that Iran's military frequently uses commercial airliners to transport troops, weapons and missiles around the world to groups like Hezbollah and Hamas and the Bashar Al-Assad regime in Syria.
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The Dubai Air Show, known for record-breaking mega deals, typically sees fierce competition for deals from rivals Airbus and Boeing, who each own approximately half of the market for large commercial airliners.
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This ability to create large and complex environments also makes virtual reality promising for training airfield staff members who work in hazardous environments, servicing airliners in all kinds of weather and light conditions.
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PARIS, March 23 (Reuters) - Airbus said in a stock market filing on Monday that customers could seek to cancel or postpone delivery of airliners and helicopters as the coronavirus crisis continues to escalate.
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Photographs of aircraft used by President Xi Jinping, for instance, usually show desks and seats that are not luxurious, though they do appear more comfortable than those in commercial airliners, Mr. Gao said.
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Timing their work with the guard's predictable rounds, they worked carefully over several hours hitting one case after another, synchronizing the smashing with airliners flying overhead and sweeping the floor after each one.
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American Airlines dropped 1373 percent after the company said it had deferred the delivery of several Boeing and Airbus jets, in the latest sign of oversupply in the market for long-distance airliners.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Wednesday will be a pivotal day for aircraft maker Boeing Co and federal aviation safety regulators as they try to rebuild trust following two deadly crashes of Boeing 2737 MAX airliners.
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Most Boeing 777 and 787 airliners have a secret stairway that leads to a tiny set of windowless bedrooms for the cabin crew — including hidden bedrooms for pilots— that few people know exist.
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The UAE General Civil Aviation Authority said two Emirati airliners, carrying 277 passengers, had encountered the jets from Qatar, which lies between the UAE and Bahrain, while en route to Bahrain, according to WAM.
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A mystery aircraft was flying in daylight hours among the steady stream of airliners that traverse from south to north, between locales in California and Nevada and cities like Portland and Seattle and beyond.
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"What we're saying is we aren't going to reward the United States in this context," the official said, referring to threats in recent days to take action over the pricing of European Airbus airliners.
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On Tuesday, Airbus projected that the number of airliners in operation in Latin America will more than double over the next two decades, with 2,540 new planes needed by 2034, worth some $330 billion.
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Potential competitors to Lilium Jet include much bigger players such as Airbus, the maker of commercial airliners and helicopters that aims to test a prototype self-piloted, single-seat "flying car" later in 13.
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The first time followed the take down in August 2006 of an al Qaeda plot to target 10 transatlantic airliners, still by far the most serious terrorist plot against the West since 9/11.
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DUBAI, May 24 (Reuters) - SaudiGulf Airlines expects to finalise an agreement for up to 16 Boeing 777 airliners with the planemaker by the third quarter of this year, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
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From Air Force One to our air refueling tankers and Airborne Warning and Control aircraft, the U.S. government does not build airliners — it works with aircraft manufacturers to modify commercial products for government use.
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But sales of large four-engine airliners like the 544-seat A380 have been hit hard by improvements in the range and efficiency of smaller two-engined models, which can be easier to fill.
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Perrotta also signed off on new procedures that let Pruitt fly first-class on commercial airliners, with the security chief typically sitting next to him with other security staff farther back in the plane.
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The mobile steps that had serviced a previous generation of airliners were too short, so crews stacked one set of steps atop another in order to reach the lofty doors of the new leviathan.
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The Aviation Safety Network said there were 10 fatal charter and cargo plane accidents last year, and To70, a Dutch aviation consulting firm, noted two fatal accidents on regional airliners in Angola and Russia.
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WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - British air traffic controllers gave Prince Harry and Meghan Markle a rare wedding gift - 15 minutes of guaranteed peace and quiet for the ceremony without the roar of airliners passing overhead.
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The last Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS George H.W. Bush, and the Ford were built with new toilet and sewage systems, like those on commercial airliners but scaled up for a crew of 5,000.
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The fight over tax breaks is rooted in a long-running dispute between federal trade officials and Boeing's European archrival, Airbus, over aid that Airbus received as it developed airliners for the global market.
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After Arab terrorists hijacked commercial airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in a coordinated operation sanctioned by bin Laden, Mr. Lewis was immediately sought out by American policymakers.
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The Kurdish region's minister of transport, Mawlood Bowa Morad, accused the Iraqi government of having issued orders to shoot down any airliners that defied its ban on international flights into Erbil or Suleimaniya airports.
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Boeing announced late Monday that it would upgrade software systems in the company's 737 Max 8 airliners after one of the models was involved in a deadly crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people.
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Designed to compete with Europe's Airbus Group and Boeing Co of the United States, the rivals who dominate the global supply of airliners, the much-delayed C919 is now running three years behind original plans.
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IF ALL America can be said to have been under attack when hijackers turned four airliners on it in 2001, the assault Russian agents launched on American democracy in 2016 represented a full-blown war.
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A Boeing 707, the plane that ushered in mass intercontinental air transport in the 1950s, appears to the untutored eye much like the current offerings of Boeing and Airbus, the world's principal makers of airliners.
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Electric airliners would only be as clean as the electricity that charges them, so pricing carbon would be one way to ensure that they aren't trading emissions from jet wash for emission from a smokestack.
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Al Qaeda in Yemen, one of the fiercest branches of the global network, has plotted to down U.S. airliners and claimed responsibility for the 2015 attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
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Mounir El Motassadeq was a member of a group of radical Islamists based in the northern German city of Hamburg who helped bring about the suicide attacks with hijacked airliners that killed nearly 3,000 people.
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Reuters reported in March that original, Muslim-majority-country ban came after the United States learned that al Qaeda in Yemen wanted to put bombs in computers and use them to take down American airliners.
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Data was gathered from test flights in 2013 and 2014, looking at the impact of alternative fuels on the performance of engines, emissions, and "aircraft-generated contrails" seen at altitudes that commercial airliners fly at.
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Altogether, 2,977 people were killed and 6,000 others injured when two hijacked airliners slammed into the World Trade Center, a third crashed into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed onto a field in western Pennsylvania.
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Separately, Statscan said Canada's trade deficit in May grew to C$2.77 billion ($2.11 billion) from C$1.86 billion in April on a sharp rise in imports of airliners and gasoline while exports edged down.
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The announcement came days after the Justice Department charged two Chinese intelligence officers in a conspiracy to hack into U.S. firms and steal sensitive information on jet engines used in American and European commercial airliners.
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The Dubai Air Show, known for record-breaking mega deals, is expected to see fierce competition for deals from rivals Airbus and Boeing, who each own approximately half of the market for large commercial airliners.
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They will also be fighting a fraud lawsuit in San Diego, going to court against two chefs in Washington and continuing a long legal fight in Florida over airliners flying above his Palm Beach resort.
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The lawmakers argue that Iran's military frequently uses commercial airliners for everything from transporting troops, weapons and missiles around the world to groups like Hezbollah and Hamas and the Bashar Al-Assad regime in Syria.
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The danger is that the group, which organized the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack in Paris last year and has repeatedly tried to down U.S. airliners, may slowly indoctrinate the local population with its hardline ideology.
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SHANGHAI, July 2200 (Reuters) - China stocks fell on Thursday, dragged by airliners, as the yuan dropped to a one-year low against the dollar after news that Beijing plans to step up monetary easing measures.
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Suwaidi said two Qatari war planes twice flew dangerously close to the UAE airliners as they descended toward Bahrain International Airport in separate incidents on Monday, and could be seen by the pilots and passengers.
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Around month-end, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is expected to call for improvements to cockpit training and crew decision making and focus on potential changes to certification of new airliners, WSJ said.
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The Federal Aviation Administration, which issued a notice that the 737 Max airliners were safe for continued use, announced Monday that the model would be required to undergo "design changes" by April, according to Reuters.
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Up until the early 2000s, Taiwan resisted opening direct flights by commercial airliners between China and Taiwan partly out of fear that Chinese military aircraft could evade radar detection by sneaking in behind civilian jets.
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The chopper burst into flames on impact, unleashing a plume of smoke from the top of the high-rise that stirred memories of the two airliners flown by hijackers into the World Trade Center on Sept.
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Bin Attash and his four co-defendants are charged with hijacking, terrorism, war crimes and conspiring with militants who slammed hijacked airliners into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon outside Washington and a Pennsylvania field.
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As the solemn ceremony began at the site of the World Trade Center that was attacked by two hijacked airliners 15 years ago, there was patchy sunlight, with temperatures at about 13 degrees Fahrenheit (26.6 Celsius).
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China's aviation regulator has told domestic airlines to ground all their 737 MAX airliners, prompting a sell-off that wiped 9% off the value of shares in Boeing, an American aircraft manufacturer that makes the jets.
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Digital fly-by-wire systems, in which computers make the high-speed decisions needed to execute manoeuvres signalled by movements of a pilot's joystick, have already migrated from military jets to the cockpits of civilian airliners.
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Because the HoloLens can be used wirelessly and may perform many of the same functions of a big simulation rig four or five times the cost, it may be an attractive option for contractors and airliners.
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DETROIT, March 2737 (Reuters) - Wednesday will be a pivotal day for aircraft maker Boeing Co and the federal aviation safety regulators as they try to rebuild trust following two deadly crashes of Boeing 2737 MAX airliners.
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The loss of the city was a blow to the ambitions of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch, which is widely considered the militant group's most dangerous worldwide affiliate, with a particular focus on blowing up commercial airliners.
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Iran has ordered 100 airliners from European planemaker Airbus and 80 from Boeing and is in talks to finalise a deal to buy 20 turboprop aircraft from ATR, jointly owned by Airbus and Italy's Leonardo Finmeccanica.
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According to reports in The Washington Post and The New York Times, President Trump revealed the city from which secret information was gathered regarding ISIS's plan to use laptops to blow up commercial airliners in flight.
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Those tariffs would make up for the business that Boeing claims it lost when Europe injected around 22 billion euros in financial support to help Airbus develop the superjumbo A380 and the wide-body A350 airliners.
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The plane took off as Ukrainian flights from Iran had dozens of times before, and followed the same departure routes as other airliners leaving that morning, Ihor Sosnovsky, the vice president for flight operations, told journalists.
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In another part of the country, General Electric, whose jet engines are among the world's most popular, is scrambling to staff a plant in Lafayette, Indiana, to keep up with demand for airliners around the world.
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Now after almost being ruined by an effort to take on Boeing and Airbus in the market for larger airliners, Bombardier is retrenching to its railway business, with private jets its only remaining stake in aviation.
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Even though the frequency of terrorist acts targeted at airliners has gone down, incidents like the shoe bombers and the tragic events of 9/11 serve as a reminder they remain a substantial and persistent threat.
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No indication available in Frankfurt The first Airbus A380 superjumbo to fly passengers almost a decade ago has been taken out of service by Singapore Airlines , highlighting a debate over the future of the world's largest airliners.
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Between the regular comings and goings of commercial airliners, first one, then two, then two more F-63 fighter jets streak down the runway that Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) share with Naha's regular airline traffic.
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Bin al Shibh is accused of wiring money and passing on information from al Qaeda leaders to the hijackers who slammed airliners into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside, killing 2,976 people.
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I felt sufficiently nauseated after watching dozens of people get poked by a large gauge needle, so I headed downstairs to go to my first talk of the day on the topic of remote controlling commercial airliners.
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On Friday, the European aerospace giant Airbus, which makes commercial airliners like the A380 as well as military aircraft, delivered a stark warning to the British government: Give us more clarity, or we might leave the country.
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Below is a list of how the world's biggest airlines have responded: Air France KLM will park its biggest airliners and slash services by up to 90% over the next few days, it said on March 16.
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Hensarling and Roskam argued in their letter that that Iran's military frequently uses commercial airliners to transport troops, weapons and missiles around the world to groups like Hezbollah and Hamas and President Bashar Assad's government in Syria.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland closed its airspace to Boeing 737 Max 8 airliners from Tuesday evening and grounded its own fleet of the planes after the same type of aircraft crashed in Ethiopia, killing 157 people, officials said.
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AQAP, which has planned several foiled bombing attempts on Western-bound airliners and claimed credit for the 2015 attack at the Charlie Hebdo magazine's offices in Paris, is considered the most dangerous branch of the global militant group.
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An Alaska volcano that has erupted periodically since mid-December sent up its biggest cloud to date late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, prompting warnings to airliners and a major US fishing port in the Aleutian Islands.
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The task will prove completely different from that of managing airliners as we do today, says AirMap CEO and cofounder Ben Marcus who is also serving as the co-chair for the FAA's Industry Unmanned Aircraft Safety Team.
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The "primary" ones ban American companies and individuals from dealing with the regime, subject only to a tightly controlled list of exceptions which include food, medicine and commercial airliners (Boeing has just signed a big order with Iran).
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Europe's largest aerospace group expects to deliver "around 22019" airliners in 22019 instead of the 2973-2297 previously targeted, the company said as it posted 21 billion euros ($20.9001 billion) in adjusted operating income for the third quarter.
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Europe's largest aerospace group expects to deliver "around 860" airliners in 2019 instead of the 880-2893 previously targeted, the company said as it posted 1.6 billion euros ($1.78 billion) in adjusted operating income for the third quarter.
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OTTAWA — The Canadian plane maker Bombardier said on Thursday that Delta Air Lines had agreed to buy 75 of its new CSeries airliners, a deal that could bring stability to Bombardier's attempts to challenge Boeing and Airbus directly.
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The lifting of economic sanctions in exchange for curbs on its nuclear activities has allowed Iran to strike provisional deals worth around $50 billion with Boeing and Airbus to buy some 200 airliners to renew its ageing fleet.
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Over the course of nine weeks, from November 1982 to early January 1983, these planes scrambled at least five times to intercept and destroy airliners believed to be carrying Arafat, only to be called back soon after takeoff.
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In an advisory issued on Thursday, the agency directed commercial airliners and all operators of United States-registered aircraft to be careful when flying over the Persian Gulf because of "heightened military activities and increased political tensions" there.
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The indictment unveiled on Tuesday accused the two intelligence officers, Zha Rong and Chai Meng, and other co-conspirators in the Jiangsu office of working with hackers to steal turbofan technology used in American and European commercial airliners.
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The 737-800 is one of the world's most widely used commercial airliners, and it doesn't have the software issue linked to the crashes of two 737 MAXs that led the manufacturer to ground that model last March.
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It was home to Rashid Rauf, a liaison to Al Qaeda and a main suspect in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners in 323; he was killed in 2008 in an American airstrike in northern Pakistan.
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In the last five years, the companies manufacturing the two biggest airliners, the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380, have introduced smaller, more fuel-efficient long- and medium-range airplanes that are just right for connecting smaller cities.
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Russia is a threat because it assassinates Putin&aposs critics with chemical weapons, shoots down civilian airliners, arms the Taliban, supports Iran, violates its treaty obligations, targets NATO allies with nuclear missiles and annexes the territory of its neighbors.
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SAO PAULO, March 29 (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA said on Wednesday its biggest commercial aircraft ever took to the skies more than three months ahead of schedule, confirming healthy progress on a re-engined new generation of airliners.
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen has been the most persistent in plotting to blow up American airliners and al Qaeda in Syria is currently the largest affiliate of the group that attacked America on 9/11.
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WARSAW, March 12 (Reuters) - Poland closed its airspace to Boeing 737 Max 8 airliners from Tuesday evening and grounded its own fleet of the planes after the same type of aircraft crashed in Ethiopia, killing 157 people, officials said.
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There were no incidents involving drones and civil airliners in Britain in 2013, according to the UK Airprox Board, a regulator; last year there were 93 and this year at least 117 even before the latest events at Gatwick.
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AQAP, which has planned several foiled bombing attempts on Western-bound airliners and claimed credit for the 2015 attack at the Charlie Hebdo magazine's offices in Paris, was taking about $2 million a day in tax from the port.
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"Until Iran ceases using commercial aircraft to support terrorists and war criminals, western companies ought not be allowed to sell Iranian airliners more aircraft that they can use to fuel Assad's brutal war," Roskam said during House floor debate.
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The group has carried out attacks against the Yemeni state for years, plotted to blow up U.S.-bound airliners and claimed responsibility for the January 2015 attack in Paris on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people.
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The group that has masterminded several foiled bomb plots on Western-bound airliners and claimed credit for the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack in Paris last year was pocketing around $2 million a day in customs revenues from the port.
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It includes the United Aircraft Corporation, which makes Sukhoi jets and Tupolev passenger airliners; Kalashnikov Concern, which makes the famed assault weapon used around the world; and Rosoboronexport, which is the chief state-owned arms exporter in the country.
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U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is expected around the end of the month to call for improvements to cockpit training and crew decision making and is expected to focus on potential changes to certification of new airliners, WSJ said.
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Rolls, whose main business makes engines for large airliners, had forecast group operating profit of 400 million pounds ($509 million), give or take 100 million pounds, and free cash flow of 450 million, give or take 100 million pounds.
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Ottawa froze talks on a planned purchase of 18 F-18 Super Hornet jets for more than $5 billion after Boeing in April launched a trade challenge accusing Bombardier of dumping its new CSeries airliners into the U.S. market.
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This year, the Chicago-based airline will replace the 747 with new twin-engined Boeing 777-300ER airliners that, along with the 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350, will serve as the future core of United's long-haul fleet.
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The United States has used drone strikes in Yemen to target leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the group's local wing, which has plotted to place bombs on international airliners and has encouraged attacks in Western countries.
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Airbus is working with another company, Zodiac Aerospace, known for its design of sleeping quarters for airline crew, to develop what it's calling 'lower-deck modules' to repurpose the space under the passenger cabins of Airbus' A330 and A350 XWB airliners.
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A merger of the two firms would create a behemoth with combined sales of more than $90 billion, a company responsible for a huge amount of equipment on commercial airliners, ranging from jet engines to airplane cockpits and landing gear.
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"It is certainly a long way, but because the time scales of aviation are so long, [airliners] tend to live for 20 to 30 years, we need to start looking at these technologies now so they're available in 2050," he said.
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The two Air Force One planes currently in use, highly modified Boeing 22-200B airliners known as VC-25s, are close to reaching the end of their 30-year life expectancy, and both require significant maintenance to stay in the air.
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The second part, found in February by American lawyer and adventurer Blaine Alan Gibson, also matched all measurable dimensions and materials for a 777 tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabilizer, which is found on the tail sections of airliners.
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Such mundane but essential concerns as the flight paths of airliners, the transfer of patents, and the dumping of waste in oceans—even the number of bluefin tuna that can be taken from the sea—are governed by international agreements.
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Apart from the reliance on computer systems, ships themselves are increasingly exposed to interference through electronic navigation devices such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and lack the backup systems airliners have to prevent crashes, according to cyber security experts.
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In his comments to Reuters, Quintella also harshly criticized the chief executive of airline Azul, Antonoaldo Neves, who voiced opposition to raising foreign ownership of domestic airliners to 100 percent in an interview with newspaper Folha de S.Paulo over the weekend.
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After a campaign of suicide bombings and attacks against the Yemeni government, and two foiled bomb plots on U.S.-bound airliners, AQAP was forced into retreat by assaults from Yemeni tribes and troops as well as persistent U.S. drone strikes.
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In Barton Gellman's play-by-play of that morning in "Angler," it's strongly implied that Cheney usurped Bush's authority, ignoring the chain of command and giving fighter jets the O.K. to shoot down commercial airliners if they appeared to be hijacked.
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Below is a list of how the world's biggest airlines have responded: AIR FRANCE KLM Air France KLM will park its biggest airliners and slash services by up to 90% over the next few days, it said on March 503.
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Since moving into the aviation business in 1986, the company has become a major force in the private jet market, under its name and Lear's, and in the market for turboprops and jet airliners used by airlines on regional routes.
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The 737-NG is one of the world's most widely used airliners; more than 7,000 have been built since 1998, and the plane has logged more than 250 million hours of flight time and fewer than a dozen fatal accidents.
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"We decided to start a company and approach this from a totally new angle, and utilize this gap in aerospace, which is the stratosphere — twice higher than where airliners fly," said Near Space Labs CEO Rema Matevosyan in an interview.
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"Until Iran ceases using commercial aircraft to support terrorists and war criminals, western companies ought not be allowed to sell Iranian airliners more aircraft that they can use to fuel Assad's brutal war," Roskam said during House floor debate. Rep.
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Earlier this month, China announced that it has opened a new air route that will allow its commercial airliners to fly northward up the center of the narrow strait separating it from Taiwan, which sits 100 miles off China's coast.
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Destruction of the Twin Towers was part of the coordinated hijackings of four airliners by al-Qaeda militants that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and western Pennsylvania, where one of the planes crashed in a farm field.
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It might even one day lead to commercial airliners that minimize fuel costs, passing the savings onto customers—as long as you don't mind spending countless extra hours in the air while the plane zig-zags the country looking for thermals.[Microsoft]
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"The bombing of Philippines Airlines Flight 434 in December 1994 was not claimed because the planners hoped to use an improved version of the same device in a larger attack targeting 10 trans-Pacific airliners," Stratfor said in a brief over the weekend.
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If our engine is even close to a jet engine in reliability, has a flak shield to protect against a rapid unscheduled disassembly and we have more engines than the typical two of most airliners, then exceeding airline safety should be possible.
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By some estimates, putting together Airbus airliners in Toulouse accounts for just 5% of the added value of their manufacture—even if ensuring the aircraft were put together in France has been a non-negotiable point of national pride for the French government.
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The October attack in Egypt prompted the British government to ban its airliners from flying in and out of the resort as the local airport came under intense scrutiny, with the question of how an explosive made its way on board still unanswered.
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Business Boeing 737 MAX: What to expect at Capitol Hill, Boeing meetings Today will be a pivotal day for aircraft maker Boeing and federal aviation safety regulators as they try to rebuild trust following two deadly crashes of Boeing 737 MAX airliners.
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The airline did not elaborate on the safety reasons behind its new flight paths to Europe but one of its airliners was shot down over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine in 2014 with the loss of all 298 people on board.
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Until now, officials across the administration have feared that ramping up the arming of Syrian rebels would be disastrous because of the risk that such weapons could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and be used to shoot down civilian airliners.
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I came up with the term "place lag" to refer to the way that airliners can essentially teleport us into a moment in a far-off city; getting us there much faster, perhaps, than our own deep sense of place can travel.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Russia is ready to sell civil airliners to Iraq and keep providing it with military aid to fight Islamic State, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday, accompanied on a trip to Baghdad by the biggest Russian delegation in years.
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Below is a list of how the world's biggest airlines have responded (in alphabetical order): AIR FRANCE-KLM Air France-KLM will park its biggest airliners and slash services by up to 90% over the next few days, it said on March 16.
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The bill set aside $50 billion in emergency relief for major airliners now squeezed financially by a steep drop-off in the number of people traveling and by nations around the world sealing their borders to curb the spread of the virus.
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"The assembly will take days, not weeks," said Chris Sharples, one of the architects, adding that the proprietary software will allow a number of regional suppliers to collaborate in a process more akin to manufacturing Boeing airliners than building with bricks and mortar.
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That accident killed 82 people, and led to new rules that made flying safer: Small aircraft flying close to major airports are now required to use transponders that indicate their position to controllers, and airliners are outfitted with traffic collision-avoidance systems.
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WASHINGTON — Tom Price, the health and human services secretary, spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fly on private jets to attend routine public events instead of taking cheaper commercial airliners because he has an "incredibly demanding schedule," his spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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"Until Iran ceases using commercial aircraft to support terrorists and war criminals, western companies ought not be allowed to sell Iranian airliners more aircraft that they can use to fuel Assad's brutal war," Roskam said during House floor debate. http://bit.ly/2628h28500MzJ.
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The objective If our engine is even close to a jet engine in reliability, has a flak shield to protect against a rapid unscheduled disassembly and we have more engines than the typical two of most airliners, then exceeding airline safety should be possible.
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Almost 3,000 people died when hijackers slammed airliners into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field Ninety-one percent of the adults surveyed remember exactly where they were or what they were doing when they heard news about the attacks.
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But officials across the administration fear that ramping up the arming of Syrian rebels would be disastrous because of the risk that, if anti-aircraft weapons were provided, they could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and be used to shoot down civilian airliners.
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The collusion is in what Trump says (refusing to back the United States' intelligence agencies) and in what evidently went unsaid (such as: You ought to stop disrupting Ukraine, downing civilian airliners, attempting to assassinate people abroad using poisons, and so on, and on).
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AQAP, which the United States regards as one of the deadliest branches of the network founded by Osama bin Laden, has in the past plotted to down U.S. airliners and claimed responsibility for the 2015 attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
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In addition, the act helps safeguard air transportation against undeclared dangerous goods, mandates secondary cockpit barriers on newly manufactured passenger airliners, and permits the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to regulate unmanned aircraft systems or drones flown by hobbyists in the same manner as commercial operators.
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Despite the fact that all planes — from 2628-seat commercial airliners to six-passenger private jets — utilize the same federal resources to safely guide them from takeoff to landing, high-end jet owners pay far fewer taxes than airline passengers flying the very same routes.
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Although Trudeau officials were confident Trump would mostly target Mexico as the three nations started to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, Washington has slapped duties on Canadian Bombardier airliners and lumber exports in recent months and talked tough on dairy and wine.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Some Iranian airliners were refused fuel in Turkey's Istanbul airports on Friday and had to cancel at least one flight, while other carriers had to cut the number of passengers on board in order to fly on less fuel, Turkish media reported.
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"We are not afraid of being a vanguard," he said in an interview in Washington, D.C. "We invented commercial jet airliners and the best software in the world," he said, referring to Boeing and Microsoft, two global companies that rose up in his state.
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Natalie has been a core member of a team of Times journalists reporting on the 737 Max story, a team that recently reported that, because of failings by Boeing, flight simulators still don't properly recreate the software failure that brought two 737 Max airliners down.
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In October, the city signed a deal with the Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One to study the potential for a hyperloop — a vacuum-like tube through which vehicle pods hurtle at speeds faster than airliners — between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates capital.
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And due to the mind-boggling navigational errors that led to the tragedy, it would spur US President Ronald Reagan to share the space-based radionavigation technology known as the Global Positioning System, or GPS for civilian use, notably as a location-spotting mechanism aboard commercial airliners.
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He had heard rumors that the spill's periphery was seeded with innumerable objects of value from across the globe—the steel beams from 9/11, missing airliners lost at sea, the CIA's torture tapes, Nazi art, Saudi bullion, cold fusion reactors, suitcase nukes, UFO wreckage from Roswell.
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In addition to funding from Boeing and JetBlue, Zunum has a team that includes a leader from a previous NASA-backed project on developing electric drives for airliners, and a long-term partnership in place for research on electric systems power optimization with the University of Illinois.
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What's next are the challenges of slashing carbon emissions in agriculture (think methane-belching cattle), industry (like making concrete, which accounts for a whopping eight percent of global carbon emissions), and heavily-polluting airliners — all areas that have shown little to no declines so far, noted MacDonald.
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While most airliners have an economic life of 25 years and are built to last even longer, the first A380 faces an uncertain future less than 10 years after it went into service in 2007, marking what European leaders hailed as a new era in air travel.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Boeing Co Chairman Dave Calhoun said on Tuesday that the company's board believes Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg "has done everything right" just days after he came under attack from U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill after two fatal crashes involving Boeing 737 MAX airliners.
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The paper says the European Safety Agency, the FAA's counterpart in Europe; Airbus, one of the world's largest makers of passenger airliners; the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Association, and the International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Association, which represents aircraft makers, concurred in the recommendation.
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The ones in triangle have Warning Hot markings, making them the Pitot and the others have Do Not Plug making them the static ports, noticed some people who helped us gathering details about the ports (that are quite similar to air data ports used in modern airliners).
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As most airliners ground their fleet because of the virus, jet fuel storage rates have increased by 21.6% since before the coronavirus crisis to 211 euros per cubic metre per month, a source with a storage firm in the ARA region said on condition of anonymity.
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Congress has debated whether to recapitalize those planes, but Trump&aposs 2019 budget request included $125 million for two new aircraft, with the Air Force eyeing two new commercial airliners that could be outfitted with the existing Digital Visual Imaging System used by Open Skies aircraft.
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Boeing, based in Chicago, is the nation's top exporter in terms of the value of the goods it sells, which include midsize and giant airliners that are increasingly shipped to China and other parts of Asia, including the Middle East — areas with the fastest economic growth.
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For more than five years, two Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) spies are said to have run a team of hackers focusing on the theft of designs for a turbofan engine used in U.S. and European commercial airliners, according to an unsealed indictment (below) dated October 25.
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Iran, which has not directly purchased a Western-built plane in nearly 40 years, has ordered 100 airliners from Airbus and 80 from Boeing and is close to a deal to buy 20 turboprop aircraft from Toulouse-based ATR, which is jointly owned by Airbus and Italy's Leonardo Finmeccanica.
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In a world where so many things—from the cruising speed of airliners to the median wage—seem to change little from decade to decade, the exponential growth in computing power underlies the future plans of technology providers working on everything from augmented-reality headsets to self-driving cars.
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The aircraft has been grounded worldwide for three months, as investigators from Indonesia (where the first plane crashed), Ethiopia (where the second plane crashed), and the US National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration work to determine why the airliners went down—and how they might be fixed.
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Boeing Co Chairman Dave Calhoun said on Tuesday the company's board believed Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg "has done everything right," just days after he came under attack from U.S. lawmakers and repeatedly refused to step down at a hearing on two fatal crashes involving Boeing 737 MAX airliners.
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"If FAA testing has found that fires or explosions caused by lithium-ion batteries can lead to a catastrophic loss of an airplane, then why on earth would anyone want to prohibit safety regulators from banning large shipments of these batteries on passenger airliners," Nelson said in a statement.
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Some politicians and others in Western Canada are already demanding that the federal government approve Energy East if it agrees to a request from the Quebec-based Bombardier for $1 billion in assistance for its troubled program to compete directly against Boeing and Airbus in the market for airliners.
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A U.S.-backed military push by the Gulf ally could allow the administration of President Barack Obama to help strike a fresh blow against a group that has plotted to down U.S. airliners and claimed responsibility for last year's attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
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Referring to a report in The Times of London that claimed Al Qaeda was resurgent and plotting new attacks on airliners and airports that involve drones, the former detective said the Gatwick episode made Britain look unprepared and vulnerable, and could provoke criminals to carry out copycat attacks.
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" Paul Graham, who was leaving soon after the dinner for a sabbatical year in England, told me that Altman, by precipitating progress in "curing cancer, fusion, supersonic airliners, A.I.," was trying to comprehensively revise the way we live: "I think his goal is to make the whole future.
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In 2015, when Taiwan was governed by the more China-friendly administration of Ms. Tsai's predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou, Beijing and Taipei negotiated an agreement for China to use a similar air route over the Taiwan Strait for Chinese airliners flying the opposite direction, from north to south.
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The FAA tells CNN it received the four hotline submissions on April 5, and it may be opening up an entirely new investigative angle into what went wrong in the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max commercial airliners -- Lion Air flight 620 in October and Ethiopian Air flight 302 in March.
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Acknowledging that airliners emit prodigious amounts of carbon dioxide, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg announced Monday that she will journey across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the U.N. Climate Action Summit (and Mashable's Social Good Summit) upon a technologically-advanced sailboat, the Malizia II. But Thunberg won't stop there.
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In an attempt to curb the ongoing surge of Central American illegal aliens crossing over our southern border, the Obama DHS yesterday announced the dramatic expansion of a 28503 program that puts so-called "refugees" from high-crime regions onto commercial airliners and brings them here directly to live and work.
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Government and Emirati forces have been mounting a ground push in southern Yemen against towns held by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group behind several foiled bombing attempts on Western-bound airliners and which claimed responsibility for the 2015 attack at the Charlie Hebdo magazine's offices in Paris.
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To meet the call from former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to push mission-capable rates on F-18s, F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, F-22 Raptors and F-16 Fighting Falcons up to 80%, the Navy turned to outside experts who deal with plane maintenance issues every day: commercial airliners.
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By contrast, all President Trump did was warn two highest-level Russian diplomats in private about an ISIS threat to global airline traffic—presumably because no one wants Russian airliners blown up any more than they want American ones blown up (although one wonders about some people on that account).
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The order from Peach Aviation - 39 percent owned by Japan's largest airline ANA Holdings - is expected to cover ten fuel-saving A320neo narrow body airliners and three previous versions of the A320, for $1.3 billion at list prices, said the sources, who did not want to be named as the deal is not public.
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In Iran's sixth five-year plan, now awaiting parliamentary approval, Mr Akhoundi wants to spend $28 billion on railways, $20 billion on roads, $50 billion on upgrading the country's Shah-era air fleet and $7 billion on airports (including extending Tehran's main airport, Imam Khomeini, so that the largest modern airliners can land there).
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Even after the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, American counterterrorism officials have said that the Qaeda franchise in Yemen poses the most direct threat to the United States, largely because of its proven ability to develop plots to smuggle hard-to-detect bombs aboard passenger airliners bound for the United States.
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Even after the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, American counterterrorism officials have said the Qaeda franchise in Yemen poses the most direct threat to the United States, largely because of its proven ability to develop plots to smuggle hard-to-detect bombs aboard passenger airliners bound for the United States.
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A recent report published by the airline safety and product rating review website Airline Ratings identifies the top 20 safest commercial airliners using criteria such as safety and security certifications, being blacklisted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or other foreign transportation agencies, and the number (or absence) of fatal accidents in the past ten years.
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The Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation's Future Act, the draft of which is more than 2628 pages long, would force dramatic changes in many sectors of the economy, from pushing utilities work toward 28500 percent carbon-free electricity by 6900 to requiring the transportation sector to reduce emissions not just from cars but also from airliners.
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United and Southwest Airlines Announce Extended Boeing 737 Max Cancellations Amid New Software IssueThe absolute shitshow that is Boeing's ongoing 737 Max headache saw yet another safety issue come…Read more ReadUnless being completely taken out of service for repairs or maintenance, most commercial airliners remain powered up and operational for weeks on end as they criss-cross countries or the world.
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Taken together, his '50s classics are a brown-eyed man's road trip through a nation being transformed by technology and consumer culture — a psychogeography of a cultural landscape defined by the Mercury launches and the mushroom cloud, jet airliners and the Interstate Highway System, the arrival of TV and the invention of teen culture (which had Berry's fingerprints all over it).
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The Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation's (CLEAN) Future Act, the draft of which is more than 600 pages long, would force dramatic changes in many sectors of the economy, from pushing utilities to work toward 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050 to requiring the transportation sector to reduce emissions not just from cars but also from airliners.
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While attacks on airports are not a new trend – the aviation sector has long been a top target for terrorists – the latest events are likely to put Americans on edge, amplify security fears and influence response efforts in the U.S. As it has become more difficult to hijack airliners, terrorists have increasingly turned to unmanned perimeters, or so-called soft targets.
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Indeed, while most commercial airliners today fly at between 21960 and 255 miles per hour — largely because it's more economical to burn fuel more slowly — a spate of startups is borrowing from the age of the legendary Concorde to build planes that they say will fly at 303,230 miles per hour, 2200,210 miles per hour, and, even in one case, at more than 3,000 miles per hour.
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In May 2015, to counter the impression left by an array of widely publicized episodes that have included travelers storming a buffet in Thailand to consume all the prawns, throwing hot water at a flight attendant, carving inscriptions on an ancient Egyptian monument, allowing children to relieve themselves in public places and opening emergency exits on airliners "for fresh air," the government announced the blacklist.
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The FAA told CNN it may be opening a new investigation as a result:The FAA tells CNN it received the four hotline submissions on April 5, and it may be opening up an entirely new investigative angle into what went wrong in the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max commercial airliners — Lion Air flight 620 in October and Ethiopian Air flight 302 in March.
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Here is a president of the United States who repeatedly blames America first; who takes the word of a former K.G.B. agent over his own intelligence agencies; who promises to work constructively with a despot whose regime kills journalists, shoots down civilian airliners and uses nerve agents to assassinate its enemies abroad; and who aims his rhetorical fire on an opposing party instead of an enemy government.
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Yet terrorism, however tragic and newsworthy, remains a remarkably rare phenomenon in the United States and in the rest of the developed world — Islamist terrorists have killed a total of six people a year since 9/11 in the US. If security measures like the air marshal service were deterring large numbers of people from attacking airliners, we would expect far more mayhem in other places.
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In theory, delegating much of the day-to-day regulatory work to Boeing allows the F.A.A. to focus its limited resources on the most critical safety work, taps into existing industry technical expertise at a time when airliners are becoming increasingly complex, and allows Boeing in particular to bring out new planes faster at a time of intense global competition with its European rival Airbus.
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