The test flights are steps toward certifying the safety of these companies' spacecraft before crewed test flights.
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The board's review process includes test flights, and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said last week the software has been tested on nearly 100 test flights.
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After that step, Boeing plans to schedule actual test flights.
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They will start making test flights in March, it said.
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Boeing said it was aiming for test flights this year.
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Crewed test flights are tentatively planned to start in 2017.
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All debugging and test flights had to be conducted indoors.
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Analysts have questioned the long periods between previous test flights.
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The planes hadn't yet gone through their first test flights.
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Soon, SpaceX will add more engines to its test flights.
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The manned craft is scheduled to begin test flights next year.
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Ehang has been touting manned test flights of its drone already.
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There will be test flights with mission specialists in the cabin.
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The manned craft are scheduled to begin test flights next year.
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Chances are high the upcoming test flights will be delayed, too.
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Analysts had questioned the long time gaps between previous test flights.
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Once those tests are completed, the powered test flights can begin.
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Facebook completed test flights of its internet drone, Aquila, last summer.
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The helicopter has previously flown the D.C. skies in test flights.
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"Typically, problems will be discovered during these test flights," NASA wrote.
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Branson also plans to ride aboard the plane during test flights.
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Engineers have conducted successful test flights in Singapore and San Francisco.
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Saturday's test flights were first reported by the New York Times.
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On Friday, NASA said that if uncrewed test flights go smoothly, the astronauts will fly before then, on roughly two-week test flights and later on missions of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon.
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Test flights are slated to begin next year—with cautious FAA approval.
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He said he personally has flown on two of those test flights.
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One such has just completed six months of test flights in Tanzania.
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The prototype Starship will use three Raptor engines for "hop" test flights.
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Muilenburg said he has personally flown on two of those test flights.
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These test flights may actually apply to that test-flight time requirement.
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Muilenburg said Boeing had completed 96 test flights of the new software.
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Friday's unveiling set the stage for Unity's first round of test flights.
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Test flights with crew members aboard are expected to begin this year.
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Additional uncrewed test flights will continue through the rest of this year.
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North Korea has had a spotty record with Hwasong-10 test flights.
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The company is conducting test flights of its suborbital New Shepard rocket.
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Test flights have lasted just over 10 minutes from takeoff to landing.
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The company has already conducted about 1,500 test flights with its employees.
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So far, two civilian aircraft made test flights to the airstrip in January.
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Casuals can skip ahead to the test flights around the 10 minute mark.
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Remotely piloted test flights are planned to launch at the end of 2018.
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That hasn't been an option for any of Blue Origin's previous test flights.
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The plan is to have a prototype ready for test flights in 2019.
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Blue Origin plans to start crewed test flights of the vehicle next year.
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That's what these uncrewed test flights of the New Shepard are all about.
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It is common for rockets to carry a dummy payload during test flights.
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So far, Qantas has conducted two out of its three planned test flights.
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Asked whether Airbus continued to carry out development test flights and pre-delivery test flights on A320neo-family aircraft powered by the LEAP-1A engine, made by GE-Safran venture CFM International, a spokesman for the planemaker said "yes we are".
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First test flights for commercial space taxis scheduled The year 2019 is slated to be an exciting one for commercial space travel: Both the SpaceX Dragon capsule and the Boeing Starliner spacecraft are scheduled for their first crewed test flights.
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Boeing said it has flown more than 814 test flights with the new software.
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Yes, but: Virgin Galactic has had its fair share of trouble launching test flights.
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So far, Blue Origin has seen a lot of success with its test flights.
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Boeing made it clear to CNBC that its test flights were not these flights.
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But first, Rocket Lab has to pull off its test flights of the Electron.
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The team is aiming to conduct its first test flights in 2023 or 2024.
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Test flights were supposed to begin in 2016, but that deadline came and went.
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The second test flights will be the first with humans on board the capsules.
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Test flights originally scheduled for 2016 are only just now beginning to take place.
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NASA aims to begin test flights around 2020 as long as funding is continued.
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Keeping the planes mostly empty will increase their range, making the test flights possible.
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So far, each of the RoboBee's test flights have only lasted a couple seconds.
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Space company Rocket Lab announced plans Tuesday for the second of three test flights.
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Qantas conducted test flights from New York and London this fall to collect data.
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Blue Origin executives have stated publicly that test flights will begin within two years.
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Meanwhile, test flights are expected to start late next year, according to New York magazine.
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Each of the previous three test flights were successful in pushing the spacecraft's limits farther.
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Up until now, test flights of the Stratollite have lasted between six and 12 hours.
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Despite its early successful test flights, Ehang says it is making improvements to the aircraft.
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In previous test flights, the two pilots were the only ones inside of the spacecraft.
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But Bezos said his company is learning a lot from the smaller rocket's test flights.
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Conversely, the Airbus, Siemens, Rolls-Royce system is scheduled to begin test flights in 2020.
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It was the first of two test flights for SpaceX under NASA's Commercial Crew program.
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However, the company has yet to announce when those first test flights will take place.
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The test helicopters would not be able to undergo advanced test flights without an interior.
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A total of 8,868 mock passengers and 140 test flights took part in the exercise.
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Boeing halted test flights to inspect the engines, but cleared them within about a week.
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Aircraft have taken test flights with debris in an engine and a tail, risking failure.
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The North is believed to have conducted only four test flights of the Hwasong-12.
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But the hypersonic vehicle crashed during both of its test flights in 2010 and 503.
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The company last month unveiled its second spaceship and expects to begin test flights soon.
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The company claims to have completed "over 1,000" test flights over the last few years.
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So far, Virgin Galactic has flown five people to space on two successful test flights.
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The company contracted United Launch Alliance to deliver two test flights and six service flights.
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It conducted two test flights prior to this mission, both of which made it to space.
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The development period is coming to a close as SpaceX and Boeing prepare for test flights.
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They still have quite a few more ... some crucial test flights that they need to do.
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More test flights are scheduled through August as the company prepares for commercial trips in 2021.
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Test flights in December and February closely mimicked the flight path its commercial missions will take.
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The Australian airline giant said the three test flights would contain a maximum of 40 people.
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Correction: This story has been updated to note that Boeing conducted 207 test flights, not 270.
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A series of 13 test flights—including high-altitude testing—have confirmed it's good to go.
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Uber is predicting test flights of its electric-powered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft by 2020.
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Virgin Galactic has launched multiple test flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital space planes, and in Dec.
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Starting with the fact that, save for show-and-tell test flights, the technology isn't ready.
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He has also worked with data from several hundred sensors fitted to helicopters during test flights.
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The proof will come in how people react to the noise during the aircraft's test flights.
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Galactic will conduct test flights that reach its goal altitude, more than 22003 miles above Earth.
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Earlier this year, the company resumed powered test flights of the rebuilt SpaceShipTwo, named VSS Unity.
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Both capsules, developed in public-private partnerships with NASA, are scheduled for test flights next year.
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SpaceX plans to use the test vehicle to conduct short test flights in the coming weeks.
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The Federal Aviation Administration authorized ZeroAvia to operate its prototype for test flights earlier this year.
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The aircraft will continue test flights until it receives certification from the world's aviation regulatory agencies.
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The Philippines and Vietnam protested against China's test flights on the Fiery Cross Reef this month.
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Those test flights in December and February closely mimicked the flight path its commercial missions will take.
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Final interiors go in after the airplanes have gone through test flights to ensure everything functions properly.
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Harmsen said the company's systems are already in use in test flights with select partners including 3DRobotics.
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In fact, he says, the company is going to perform autonomous Black Hawk test flights this year.
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Blue Origin, founded in 2000, has flown three test flights of its suborbital New Shepard space system.
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The company had previously conducted two test flights, only one of which had made it to orbit.
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Once complete, Rocket Lab will begin test flights of Electron in preparation for their first commercial missions.
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Blue Origin plans to continue uncrewed test flights of New Shepard throughout the rest of the year.
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Rwandan ministers are supportive, and Redline hopes to start test flights by the end of the year.
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That means Blue Origin is likely getting closer to having people on board during its test flights.
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These test flights were originally scheduled for 22016, though, and it's possible that they'll be delayed again.
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Many other commercial space companies will likely do big test flights of their own in 269, too.
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Qantas Airlines is planning three nonstop test flights from London and New York City to Sydney, Australia.
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The ground tests will significantly reduce the risk of failure when test flights of hypersonic aircraft start.
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Photographer Reto Sterchi traveled to the United Kingdom to document one of his test flights in action.
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Test flights for cutting-edge aircraft, including the F-35, are conducted regularly at the Edwards facility.
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Before humans can fly in these spacecraft, though, NASA requires a series of test flights and demonstrations.
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H3 is targeting next year for its first test flights, with commercial operations kicking off in 2021.
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Before Boeing's Starliner vehicle can fly astronauts, though, NASA requires a series of test flights and demonstrations.
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Meanwhile, Uber has partnered with multiple companies to conduct test flights of flying taxis by next year.
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As a result, Jet Test flights that require special airworthiness certificates are completely unable to operate right now.
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Notably, it was only this year that Virgin Galactic resumed crewed test flights with its new SpaceShipTwo aircraft.
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These will perform high-altitude testing before SpaceX builds additional prototypes for orbital, and ultimately human, test flights.
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So far, the company has only launched the Electron twice out of New Zealand during two test flights.
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Uber wants to have flying taxis by 2023, and test flights are expected as early as next year.
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SpaceX has said previously that it intends to have manned test flights on Dragon sometime later this year.
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But according to both Mr Putin and unnamed American officials, the Russian missile has already made test flights.
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As expected, the first major test flights for Boeing and SpaceX's new passenger spacecraft have been delayed again.
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The question is when these flying machines will go from test flights to carrying people for short flights.
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Last year, Virgin Galactic restarted test flights after a fatal crash with one of its rockets in 2014.
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The test flights were conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland there, led by surgeon Joseph Scalea.
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Virgin Galactic says test flights will begin fairly soon, but won't say when SpaceShipTwo will go into space.
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Things such as ejection seats and full pressure suits were only included on test flights, not operational missions.
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At some point we're going to put these pieces together and there'll be a couple more test flights.
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Its mission will be to take five test flights after it lands with the rover in February 216.
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The airline said that problems not being caught ended up slowing down the production process, delaying test flights.
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The test flights were piloted by legendary former U.S. Air Force pilot Skip Holm, according a project spokesman.
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Matternet conducted test flights last August as part of the FAA's unmanned aircraft system integration pilot program (IPP).
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That's also where SpaceX has completed short test flights of a prototype Starship rocket, which is called Starhopper.
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The company has just has a few more test flights to complete before flying Branson, the CEO said.
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Once the test flights and pilot training recommendations are finalized, the FAA must approve the jets for flight.
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But first the team wants to do more test flights and to build a parachute into the vehicle.
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Business Insider was aboard the first of two Project Sunrise test flights — you can read about it here.
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In the annals of rocketry, experts say, roughly 5 to 10 percent of developmental test flights go awry.
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Those initial test will be sub-orbital flights, Musk said on Friday, with orbital tests to follow some "2 to 3 months" after those first test flights 2 to 3 months from today – so, that puts the earliest orbital test flights for Starship at just 4 to 6 months from now.
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Test flights are expected to begin in 2019, and the RAF will call the drone Protector rather than Reaper.
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Each is tasked with performing uncrewed test flights of their vehicles first, followed by missions with crew months later.
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In April eHang received permission from the Chinese government to begin test flights, such as island-hopping, with passengers.
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Right now the two companies each have two test flights remaining before beginning commercial operations, as well abort tests.
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Successful test flights of the Starliner and Crew Dragon would end the current Russian monopoly on human orbital transportation.
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CERTIFICATION Once the test flights and pilot training recommendations are finalized, the FAA must approve the jets for flight.
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The World War II-era plane made two test flights after a restoration project funded by a Japanese businessman.
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Ganzarski said he expects Harbour Air's test flights to begin in November and to carry paying passengers by 2022.
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Similarly, Beijing has yet to land jet fighters in the Spratlys - test flights some experts are expecting this year.
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The test flights are also part of collecting the data needed to close out some risk items, NASA said.
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Unlike Virgin Galactic, its technology is fully automated, so there have been no humans on board their test flights.
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The test flights are one prong of a broad effort by Boeing to get the Max back in the air.
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A bigger model being developed with Boeing, the SB-1 Defiant, is due to begin test flights later this year.
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The first test flights are scheduled for 2019, with the first operational missions taking place at some unknown date afterward.
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The UN's disarmament office has proposed that rivals could swap information on test flights and take other confidence-building measures.
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Virgin Galactic has started test flights of its space plane, but it's unclear when tourists will fly onboard the vehicle.
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The E-2 engine is the key next step in Launcher's plan if test flights are to begin in 2024.
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The prototype Starship will use three Raptor engines for "hop" test flights, which are expected to begin in coming months.
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Wing says that they've conducted over 70,000 test flights and completed more than 3,000 home deliveries in Australia to date.
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Spike is aiming to start test flights in two years with its S-512 aircraft entering into service in 2025.
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The first test flights of SpaceShipTwo will begin sometime this year, and that's when the changes will be truly evaluated.
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Follow-up test flights are set for the mid to late 2020s, but no dates have been locked down yet.
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Aero conducting test flights of its prototypes at an airport about an hour's drive away from Google's Mountain View headquarters.
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Its rocket New Sheppard has had several successful test flights, and it's currently developing a larger rocket called New Glenn.
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Blue Origin has been conducting a series of test flights with the vehicle at the company's facility in West Texas.
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Virgin Galactic's rival in the space tourism market, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, has run test flights above the Karman Line.
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Although Virgin Galactic has had several successful test flights, there's no indication when its first actual commercial flight will be.
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Recently Qantas announced plans to conduct test flights from New York and London to Sydney and two other Australian cities.
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The company has conducted three test flights over the past eight months that have pushed its supersonic plane progressively higher.
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The "Vahana" is an all-electric, four-seat aircraft, and successfully completed 50 full-scale test flights, the company said.
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The rocket is fully automated and reusable, and the New Shepard that launched Thursday had previously flown three test flights.
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Even with the prototype gearing up for test flights, it remained the only six orders Airbus had for the plane.
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To introduce Vanuatu's drone era, nurses are meeting local villagers, and national aviation officials invite them to watch test flights.
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An F.A.A. spokesman said agency employees had collectively spent more than 110,000 hours reviewing the Max, including 297 test flights.
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Some prototypes are already carrying out test flights and operators hope to begin commercial services within the next few years.
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The 216 was first announced in February 2018, after which time the company demonstrated both piloted and autonomous test flights.
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More test flights are planned in coming months to fine-tune the vehicle before passengers will be allowed on board.
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The 777X The 777X widebody plane has already been developed and is going through its first round of test flights.
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And by the way, based on all the test flights we have had to date which are many, they do.
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Virgin Galactic is expected to keep doing test flights and making improvements in terms of safety, altitude and weight capacity.
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The Falcon Heavy and Crew Dragon are still in R&D, with each scheduled for separate test flights later this year.
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The crewed test flights will occur in mid 2019, following a recently announced delay, with flights to the ISS coming afterward.
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Historically, the company has been known for its secrecy — and, for a time, it did not announce test flights in advance.
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But it's a requirement for NASA that the space station is crewed when those initial test flights occur, according to Todd.
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If this launch goes well, Rocket Lab may consider itself done with test flights altogether and forge ahead with commercial missions.
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That's definitely a required step for the company to take ahead of any test flights of the more complete Starhopper prototypes.
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It was backed by Convair, a major airplane manufacturer at the time, and had a total of 203 successful test flights.
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The Boeing aircraft has been undergoing test flights for a number of months and is close to its first commercial deliveries.
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The aircraft took off last week in the first of a series of test flights from its airbase in Cardington Airfield.
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Pilots conducted its first powered test flights earlier this year — the strongest indication yet that the company is nearing commercial operations.
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The app cost $450,000 to design and develop over 16 months, and went through more than 300 test flights for testing.
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Jeff Bezos has a pair of lucky cowboy boots that he wears when his space company, Blue Origin, has test flights.
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The company said it had completed simulator test flights with the Federal Aviation Administration to certify software fixes to the plane.
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In 2019, it flew three test-flights, tracking crew performance and experimenting with new "anti-jet-lag" service flows for passengers.
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After making design changes in the second space plane, Virgin has completed other test flights successfully, the most recent in February.
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The BelugaXL cargo plane just entered operational service and is now transporting Airbus cargo, CNN reported, following months of test flights.
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Throughout the day, the DRL team attempted to break the record three separate times and conducted a number of test flights.
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Test flights have already been conducted in Dubai, and the taxi service is expected to launch in July, says Al Tayer.
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Unlike many other VTOL designs, Passenger Drone has lived up to its name, showing off footage of test flights with human passengers.
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He expects there will be three more test flights before the Virgin Galactic moves its operations to Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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Shotwell said the new turbopumps will be installed before the first unmanned test flights of the commercial space taxi, scheduled for November.
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So the success of Rocket Lab's test flights is good news for Moon Express' chances of winning the Google Lunar X Prize.
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Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo earlier this year, and received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration back in August to begin test flights.
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Up until now, all of Virgin Galactic's test flights have been done out of the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
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Today, the company released footage of its first piloted test flights in China — and color us impressed: this thing is no joke.
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A full-scale capsule is set to be tested this summer, and crewed test flights will begin in the summer of 2017.
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"But if they can lessen that time between [the first two test flights], that will mitigate the criticism they're getting," says Forczyk.
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The F-35C is currently flying test flights out of Navy's premier test base, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, located in Maryland.
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The backdrop: Spaceport America, which cost New Mexico taxpayers $220 million, stood vacant for years as Virgin troubleshot issues with test flights.
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The company has launched 11 uncrewed test flights of its New Shepard space system designed to bring paying customers to suborbital space.
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Before that, though, there are still dozens of test flights in order—though hopefully with fewer and fewer of those sinking feelings.
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This capital injection comes less than a year after its last round and just months after it completed its first test flights.
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Before Ehang and the NIAS can start conducting these test flights, however, they'll need an FAA experimental certificate to fly the drone.
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Even after a couple of test flights the atmosphere on board was tense—the timing and the equipment had to work perfectly.
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HAV, though, has to wait for the vehicle's first test flights before it knows if it's got a winner on its hands.
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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk says the first short test flights of the company's massive rocket Starship are "hopefully" this week.
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Jose said the test flights were "provocative actions" that will restrict the freedom of navigation and overflights in the South China Sea.
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"There's plenty of enthusiasm for Sunrise, but it's not a foregone conclusion," Joyce said in an August statement announcing the test flights.
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A total of six prototypes will eventually conduct test flights, China Central Television reported, with engine tests to be a particular focus.
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The flying vehicle will be the product of over 1,000 test flights from previous Volocopter iterations, according to the air-taxi maker.
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The company had temporarily halted test flights of its 737 MAX aircraft on Wednesday due to an issue related to the engine.
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The company said the new software had been extensively tested and officials from the F.A.A. had taken test flights on updated jets.
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Blue Origin has conducted numerous test flights of its autonomous spacecraft, which is designed to carry passengers on suborbital trips to space.
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On these test flights, SpaceX has been testing a new engine called Raptor, which the company plans to use to power Starship.
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Amazon test flights in the UK and California have teased the possibility of Amazon orders arriving within minutes instead of next-day.
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Musk promised that the 164-foot-tall, stainless steel rocket prototype will begin high-altitude test flights in the next few months.
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But all those test flights have been without passengers, as Blue Origin is still making sure the vehicle is ready for them.
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Two commercial systems by Boeing and SpaceX to take astronauts to the International Space Station will also fly crewless test flights first.
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If successful, the flight will officially kick off commercial operations for the company, which has only pulled off two test flights so far.
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Sadly, there will be no test flights at CES here since Las Vegas as a "big no-fly zone," according to company executives.
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Beyond its size and butt-like appearance, the Airlander 10 is also known for accidents during its two of its six test flights.
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New Shepard has flown on 11 test flights, with its capsule, built to carry six passengers, reaching an altitude of more than 350,000.
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Customers who have tickets on the test flights will be notified ahead of time either by email or via the company's mobile app.
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Branson also donned his own spacesuit, which he plans to wear as Virgin Galactic's first passenger after the company finishes its test flights.
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SpaceX still plans to have "hopper" test flights of the BFR spaceship next year, followed by high-altitude, high-velocity flights in 2020.
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Chinese competitor Ehang has a passenger drone operating test flights this month — even if it can only carry two people at a time.
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Tickets will be offered ahead of the first commercial launch, and test flights with Blue Origin employees are expected to begin in 2019.
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I've asked SpaceX for more details on this particular operation and whether it is related to the company's upcoming Crew Dragon test flights.
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While passenger flights of the Boeing 737 Max models are banned under the order, Boeing can still operate test flights of the aircraft.
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The first test flights of the vehicle are slated to begin in 2019, with missions expected to begin sometime in 2022 or 2023.
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This year is filled with important test flights, as private companies like SpaceX get new orbital rockets and vehicles ready for space travel.
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Lilium will do its first full-scale test-flights in the next year, but has no timeframe for full production on its vehicles.
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They spent their days whirling around in centrifuges or enduring extended periods of confinement in small spaces, to prepare them for test flights.
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After repairing from earlier test flights, most of the battery life was spent flying 50 feet up and then landing abruptly moments after.
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After the helicopter's solar cells charge its lithium-ion batteries, NASA controllers on Earth will prepare the craft for its tricky test flights.
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The suits will be worn by Virgin Galactic mission specialists on test flights in advance of the start of commercial flights in 2020.
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The 737 MAX certification program involved 110,000 hours of work on the part of FAA personnel, including flying or supporting 297 test flights.
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The first of three Electron test flights is expected within the next few weeks from a newly built commercial spaceport in New Zealand.
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Following test flights this year and certification in 2021, Eviation said it planned to begin shipping the aircraft for commercial use in 2022.
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A stray bolt was discovered in an engine, and a plane went out for test flights with a ladder left in the tail.
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Since then, the aircraft has completed a variety of test flights, which validated key components and their integration into a complete powertrain system.
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Rolls-Royce and Airbus hope the hybrid plane, known as E-Fan, will be ready for maiden test flights by 2021, Newby said.
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Virgin Galactic, the space-plane company run by Richard Branson, conducted two successful test flights with crew aboard in the past 13 months.
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There have been a handful of small-scale test flights of eVTOL aircraft around the world, but none are currently in commercial operation.
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Musk said he's optimistic that they could be flying people on test flights of Starship as early as next year as a result.
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Virgin Galactic said in its third-quarter results that – following those test flights – the company received 3,557 expressions of interest in flight reservations.
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The company has conducted two successful test flights to the edge of space, but commercial operations aren't slated to begin until next year.
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The company said it had conducted more than 814 test flights using the new software, but the FAA has not yet approved it.
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After Boeing's fix is finalized and submitted in the coming weeks, regulators will review it and schedule test flights, expected later this fall.
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Simulator operators at Boeing programmed test flights of the new software with "the most challenging scenarios," mimicking multiple failure situations, the official said.
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The electrically powered driverless drones -- named Ehang 184 -- have already been seen hovering above the sand dunes near the city's airfield during test flights.
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There are still some test flights to take and, even then, it won't make its public debut until a few weeks before the parade.
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Both Boeing and SpaceX have already been forced to delay the first crewed test flights of their vehicles to August and May 2018, respectively.
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In May 2015, during one of its earliest test flights, a prototype for the solar-powered drone crashed at a New Mexico test site.
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The two-person test flights are simply meant to demonstrate that the vehicles can keep passengers safe on the way to and from orbit.
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Whitesides says the plan is to do a few more test flights there to get the pilots acclimatized to the new facility and airspace.
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He said before recertification, the FAA must receive Boeing's final application and then conduct test flights, a system safety analysis and determine training requirements.
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The company has said that it plans to start crewed test flights in 2017, and then start taking tourists up to space in 2018.
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The company has completed eight test flights including landing the rocket vertically, but has yet to strap a human into one of the seats.
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Blue Origin, the space company of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, its first test flights with people in 2017 and passenger flights in 2018.
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In the test flights, the crew capsule detaches from the rest of the New Shepard vehicle in space, and both fall back to Earth.
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Executives say the company has completed hundreds of test flights and simulations, but none were held during the visit because of rain and wind.
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Seeing as how the company's test flights have gone so smoothly — and even better than expected — that timeline doesn't seem in jeopardy of changing.
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For the demonstration flight Falcon Heavy will not carry a commercial payload or even the large block of concrete typical of these test flights.
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Qantas said it will conduct test flights with only employees on board to ensure the flights are safe and comfortable enough for paying customers.
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More ultra long-haul test flights are planned, with the goal of having nonstop London-Sydney flights up and running by 2022 or 2023.
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A Red Car for the Red Planet Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks.
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He became enthralled with flying as a teenager when he watched Doolittle, a trophy-winning aviation pioneer, making test flights from an airfield there.
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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said on Tuesday will conduct its own test flights separate from, but in full coordination with, the FAA.
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The company said it has additional test flights planned and will be ready to start flying paying customers in the first half of 2020.
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The 18-rotor VoloCity is being developed by Volocopter, a German firm, based on a prototype (illustrated above) which has flown numerous test flights.
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Virgin Galactic's "mission specialists," such as chief astronaut trainer Beth Moses, will wear the Under Armour spacesuit on the company's remaining crewed test flights.
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In addition to its 603 reservations, Virgin Galactic tracks "expression of interest" from potential customers since its successful test flights about a year ago.
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Some small electric planes have completed test flights, but most of the focus is on hybrid planes, especially for higher capacity long distance flights.
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And, again, that puts them behind companies like Chinese-based Huawei, who's already partnering with Ehang and showing off the Ehang 184 in test flights.
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The FAA said it still does not have a fixed timeline for test flights, and when it expects to allow the plane to fly again.
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However the Starship prototype SpaceX has been building was badly damaged by strong winds in Texas, which will likely delay the vehicle's first test flights.
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NASA is working on alternatives with Boeing and SpaceX, but the test flights for those commercial crew spacecraft aren't scheduled to take place until 2019.
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At long last, after a series of repairs and test flights, it took to the skies again at 6:30 am local time yesterday morning.
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In early 2015, Google head Sundar Pichai announced that the company was set to begin its first test flights with Titan late that same year.
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Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, plans to begin test flights with people aboard its New Shepard spacecraft later this year, Bezos told SpaceNews.
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Most of Barnard's test flights only fly a few hundred feet vertically because the thrust vectoring system can only handle about 40 Newtons of thrust.
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The Boeing Starliner will have to undergo the same test flights before it is qualified for regularly scheduled jaunts to and from low Earth orbit.
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The Test & Evaluation group includes pilots who put the actual 737 MAX aircraft through hundreds of hours of test flights before the jetliner entered service.
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The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is planning to conduct its own test flights of the Boeing 737 Max before it is returned to service.
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This mishap is especially distressing given that NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel specifically directed that parachute designs be finalized and proven before test flights occur.
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Unity's two powered test flights are the first for the company since that fatal accident killed one pilot and left the other in critical condition.
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The Test & Evaluation group includes pilots who put the actual 737 MAX aircraft through hundreds of hours of test flights before the jetliner entered service.
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Global regulators may follow the FAA's findings and re-certify the plane quickly, or may take longer to perform their own inspections and test flights.
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The European Union Aviation and Space Agency said on Tuesday will conduct its own test flights separate from, but in full coordination with, the FAA.
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Volocopter says it has clocked over 1,000 test flights: some piloted by humans and others flown by remote control or autonomously on pre-determined routes.
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Then the company will complete a series of test flights at the new location, while also finishing the design of the spacecraft's cabin for customers.
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In total, NASA selected nine astronauts to conduct the first human test flights of the Crew Dragon and its Boeing counterpart, the CST-100 Starliner.
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Jewell also stressed that no problems related to the part were seen in the more than 2,000 hours of test flights for the 737 Max.
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As you watch, keep an eye out for a large Starship test vehicle that's meant to perform high-altitude test flights in the months ahead.
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Jewell also stressed that no problems related to the part were seen in the more than 252,107 hours of test flights for the 737 Max.
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Over the past few months, SpaceX tested a prototype called "Starhopper," which only had one engine and flew a couple of low altitude test flights.
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Fourth successful launch of the same New Shepard vehicle during test flights / Image courtesy of Blue Origin Fourth successful launch of the same New Shepard vehicle during test flights / Image courtesy of Blue Origin Their New Shepard suborbital rocket, which is still undergoing the necessary testing before capable of conducting commercial/crewed flights, is named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space.
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Blue Origin is just a few test flights away from flying people to suborbital space by the end of the year, CEO Bob Smith told Axios.
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Vietnam's concern over the rig follows its complaints, echoed by the Philippines, over China's recent test flights on an artificial island in the disputed Spratly archipelago.
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China's Xinhua news agency last Wednesday announced two test flights to the island, four days after it angered Vietnam with its first landing on the runway.
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Test flights of these retrofitted planes are scheduled for later this year, and the company expects the first commercial electric flights to take off in 2022.
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Both companies are planning for uncrewed test flights early next year, with the first crewed tests to come later in 2019 and possibly continue into 2020.
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But you might be in for a wait before that happens: Current test flights are still only investigating the real-life aerodynamics of the technology.[Gizmag]
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Update August 2nd, 3:10PM ET: This story, originally published on August 1st, 2018, has been updated to include the new dates for SpaceX's test flights.
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NASA has announced the nine astronauts that will crew the test flights and first missions of the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.
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Test flights of Space Exploration Technology's Crew Dragon capsule are expected to begin next year, followed by the debut of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner in 2018.
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Blue Origin will continue testing out the vehicle through the end of the year, before starting the first crewed test flights of New Shepard next year.
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More test flights are planned, aimed at flying Aquila "faster, higher, and longer," says Jay Parikh, Facebook's vice president of engineering, in a blog post today.
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Test flights with people may begin as early as next year, and paying passengers, six at a time, may start coming aboard as early as 2018.
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A few more high-altitude test flights are planned before the company will allow passengers on board, and Branson plans to be on the first trip.
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Musk notes that rocket payloads for first test flights are generally just things that provide weight to simulate real cargo, like blocks of concrete or steel.
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It claims that it has conducted over 2,000 test flights inside and outside of China in various weather conditions, and is confident of the safety standards.
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"We have to bring the spaceship down to New Mexico and then we'll start our final batch of test flights, testing out the cabin," Whitesides said.
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Boeing has completed its own test flights using the new software, but still needs to perform a certification flight as part of the FAA's formal review process.
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The 184, which was still just a concept a couple of years ago, is now a real, functioning product that has completed hundreds of successful test flights.
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It's not clear exactly how many drones have been ordered, but this doesn't appear to be a publicity stunt: test flights are reportedly ongoing across Dubai's skies.
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Blue Origin just launched its reusable suborbital rocket New Shephard, marking the first time the Jeff Bezos-led company livestreamed one of its usually hushed test flights.
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Boeing said it has performed more than 135 test flights using the new software as part of the process to get the fix certified by aviation authorities.
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The company added that the next phase of test flights will see its spaceship burn its rockets longer and go faster with the goal of reaching space.
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The once very secretive company used to never stream test flights, but then started to get into the habit of live-streaming them a few years ago.
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More recently a lot more of the historic videos, like test flights from the 13s and into the '90s and early 2000s, have been moved onto YouTube.
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Commercial crew test flights—finallyNASA's contract with Russia ends in April, so it's imperative that the space agency find another means to deliver its astronauts to space.
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During that press tour, Bezos said the first crewed test flights of the New Shepard will begin in 2017, with the first tourists going up in 2018.
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BOEING HAS FLOWN TEST FLIGHTS OF ITS 737 MAX TO EVALUATE A FIX FOR THE SYSTEM TARGETED AS A POTENTIAL CAUSE OF TWO DEADLY PLANE CRASHES - AFP
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No one asked for it, even within law enforcement; no significant amount of residents would have approved it; many would surely have opposed even the test flights.
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New test flights by Qantas from London and New York to Sydney and other Australian cities would surpass this flight time, clocking in at about 19 hours.
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He declined to say when Stratolaunch would begin test flights, but he vowed to meet a goal of Mr. Allen's to be up and running by 2020.
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Following a year of test flights and data-gathering, the Max gained certification from the FAA in March 2017, followed by other global regulators later that month.
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We've also flown more than 217 test flights with the updated software and conducted numerous simulator sessions with 218 participants from 2787 customers and 2100 global regulators.
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In a tweet last week, Musk said test flights of the prototype for a Mars-bound spacecraft would be happening in the next four to eight weeks.
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A majority of training can occur around the clock inside the company's office, with time-consuming outdoor test flights only being used to fine-tune the algorithms.
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After the test flights began in early 2016, Boeing pilots found that just before a stall at various speeds, the Max handled less predictably than they wanted.
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The unveiling comes shortly after Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson announced that crewed test flights will begin this year (with about 2.5 months left on the calendar).
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The company has tended to keep its cards much closer to the chest by only confirming test flights after their plans are made public in regulatory records.
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Additionally, since its two most recent test flights reached the edge of space, Virgin Galactic says it has received interest from more than 3,000 new potential customers.
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And though Volocopter has done unpiloted test flights for some time now, the company believes it needs to cultivate public acceptance and trust, starting with piloted flights.
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Blue Origin has completed eight test flights of the vertical take-off and landing New Shepard from its launch pad in Texas, but none with passengers aboard.
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Nevertheless, in a series of ten test flights (a time-lapse picture of one of which is shown above) it successfully traversed a 60-metre indoor sports track.
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The discussions with defense companies including Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Ltd come as Japan readies its ATD-X experimental aircraft for its first test flights within days.
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The history-making delivery was preceded by test flights that transported saline, blood tubes and other medical materials and then by transporting a healthy, but nonviable, human kidney.
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Test flights in the Australian city will begin by next year and the ride-hailing company is aiming to offer a commercial service from 2023, it announced Tuesday.
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How many more test flights like this will you need and the bottom line question is how soon do you think you can begin commercial flights into space?
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SpaceX also is upgrading the capsules to carry astronauts, with test flights to the station scheduled for 2017, under a separate NASA contract worth up to $2.6 billion.
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The battery of test flights that it will go through will look at how well the drone's systems worked, and how well it takes off, flies and lands.
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CEO Richard Branson showed off the VSS Unity during a flashy ceremony at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where the company conducts its test flights.
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To prepare the New Shepard for carrying people, Blue Origin has been conducting uncrewed test flights of the vehicle out of the company's test facility in West Texas.
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Wing, a part of Alphabet (GOOG) that began as a Google X project, said it has flown 70,000 test flights, and made more than 3,000 deliveries in Australia.
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The companys two latest test flights mark the only times a crewed spaceship built to carry private passengers has reached what NASA defines as the boundary of space.
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Last week, NASA named the nine American astronauts that will crew the test flights and first missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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Although the Airlander faces 200 hours of test flights before it can be used commercially, the technology is now much safer than in the day of the Zeppelins.
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Now, the company plans to launch again in early 123, and if the flight goes well, Rocket Lab may stop test flights and go straight to commercial missions.
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But the company hopes it will be able to begin test flights at some point in the next decade, aiming to have commercial flights operating by the 2030s.
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Scientists will conduct additional test flights, and the first batch of the weapon is expected to be finished by 2020, according to the AP. View the discussion thread.
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Tesla is now regularly manufacturing and shipping 3 different Tesla vehicles: The Tesla Model S, 3, and X. SpaceX has now launched over 75 test flights of rockets.
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The fix is expected to be approved after new certification test flights, allowing the planes back in the air, by the end of this year or early 2020.
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However, European regulators have said they want to conduct their own test flights of the fixed Max, and may want to carry out a closer inspection as well.
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It has previously said that its test flights are designed to stress-tests the drones and that it expects there to be failures like this along the way.
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The company's two latest test flights mark the only times a crewed spaceship built to carry private passengers has reached what NASA defines as the boundary of space.
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Stuttgart-based Volocopter, backed by Intel, Daimler and Geely, has apparently logged over 1,000 test flights and aims for fully autonomous commercial flights in five to 10 years.
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Tajer was responding to Calhoun's CNBC interview on Wednesday, when the aircraft maker's new CEO said that pilots, based on many test flights, like the 737 Max updates.
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It's aiming to have its first test flights next year, which makes the 2023 target for its first lunar orbit mission with paying customer cargo on board ambitious.
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After a year and a half of test flights, the first Dreamliner was delivered to All Nippon Airways on September 26, 2011, nearly ten years following its order.
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Because these storms are most bombastic in the summer, this mission needs to run throughout June and July, and test flights were originally scheduled to happen this month.
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If they make it, they will sprout six-foot wingspans and take short test flights, swooping onto nearby branches before returning to the nest for more free food.
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Speaking at the South by Southwest festival earlier this year, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that he expects to see test flights of the firm's Mars spacecraft next year.
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"Following the test flights, NASA will review the performance data and resolve issues as necessary to certify the systems for operational missions," wrote the space agency in a release.
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After each company completes their crewed test flights successfully, NASA will start the process to finally certify the spacecraft and systems for regular crew missions to the space station.
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American Airlines said in January it was reviewing the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner and shorter-range Airbus A3503-900, which is in test flights before entering service this summer.
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No humans have flown on the eight test flights of Bezos' New Shephard capsule, and three sources told Reuters that the first passengers will likely be Blue Origin employees.
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The company has pumped out a handful of videos over the last few years of the first test flights and demos of the prototype, the Volocopter VC200, in action.
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Bezos explained how the space company is learning from test flights of rocket New Shepard, which he expects will begin flying passengers on short trips into space this year.
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It has also given DRU, a different pizza-carrying robot, a spin through some Australian neighborhoods and has even tried test-flights with a pizza drone in New Zealand.
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And as the renders below suggest, it looks like the Seoul store will have an an enclosed wind tunnel-like structure to allow indoor test-flights — just like Shenzen.
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The company is planning to start crewed test flights of the New Shepard capsule next year, with possible commercial flights of the suborbital vehicle starting as soon as 2018.
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The 2018 target remains in place for initial commercial service, but Blue Origin is now looking more likely to start test flights in 2018, rather than later this year.
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Up until recently, the company rarely gave interviews about its work, and the first few test flights of the New Shepard weren't publicized until after they had been completed.
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In March China conducted seven successful test flights of its hypersonic glider WU-14, also known as the DF-ZF, at speeds of between Mach 5 and Mach 10.
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The airship could then become a familiar sight over the central English countryside as it aims to complete 200 hours of test flights before demonstrations to would-be customers.
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And Musk recently shared images of an operational model for Starship that he plans to use to conduct short "hop" test flights this year at a facility in Texas.
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Which is why it's pretty exciting that the first test flights from what may become the world's first all-electric airline are expected to take off later this year.
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Clearance from the FAA to resume flights could come within about a month of submission, after the final software fix is assessed by regulators and test flights are conducted.
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Test flights of the jet, dubbed the Kowsar, took place Tuesday on the eve of the National Day of the Defense Industry, according to semi-official Mehr News Agency.
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And, in the time since its two most recent test flights reached the edge of space, Virgin Galactic says it has received interest from more than 3,000 potential customers.
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SpaceShipTwo requires two pilots to fly, and so far five Galactic crew members have already earned commercial astronaut wings from the US government for reaching space during test flights.
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Issues with the aircraft's suppliers and primary engine manufacturer Rolls Royce had pushed back test flights and the first flight of the aircraft was pushed back until late 2009.
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The CEO previously said that Starship could conduct short test flights this year, and he's shared images of a test vehicles being constructed at a test site in Texas.
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On Friday, he tweeted that SpaceX will mate the prototype vehicle with its engine next week, which could tee up the test flights to start in the near future.
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But even if test flights are completed for both capsules, NASA will need to assess their readiness and safety before the spacecraft begin carrying crew to the space station.
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But as the launch date approached, the mood became tense in Star City after three test flights of the unmanned Soyuz failed, revealing dozens of problems with its architecture.
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Dan Banks, senior research engineer at NASA, told CNN that the aircraft is currently in development at Lockheed Martin and is scheduled to undertake its first test flights in 2021.
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SpaceX and Boeing are both targeting 2018 for those test flights, but the GAO report identifies a number of reasons why the vehicles won't be certified until the year after.
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Do you have an understanding of the amount of launches or missions you're going to need that include launching the Gateway elements, including launching test flights for Orion, landers, etc.?
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The Aquila project conducted two public, high-profile test flights of a prototype drone, the first of which in 2016 resulted in serious damage to the aircraft during its landing.
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Here's Electron from the ground:Now here it is in space:Today's launch, aptly named "It's a test," is the first of three test flights Rocket Lab has planned for this year.
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However, it does mean that the Falcon Heavy isn't quite ready for regular spaceflight just yet, and the company might want to do more test flights before launching customers' satellites.
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Aero, into which Page has poured more than $100 million since it started in 2010, conducts test flights of its prototype at an airport hangar in Hollister, California, Bloomberg said.
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In the past several months, Virgin Galactic has had two successful test flights of SpaceShipTwo, the rocket-powered passenger spacecraft that may someday take tourists to the edge of space.
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Commanders discovered the episode, and Mr. Hoover was relegated to flying the "chase" plane during the X-1 test flights, making observations and taking photographs, while Mr. Yeager made history.
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The remaining test flights aren't yet scheduled, but I'm sure that will soon change — and you'll definitely hear about it when the first commercial flights are put on the books.
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The whole purpose behind these uncrewed test flights is to ensure the vehicle will be safe enough to carry humans up in outer space, and return them to the ground.
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If all goes according to plan, Sunday will mark the fourth round of test flights for this particular New Shepard suborbital vehicle at Blue Origin's testing ground in West Texas.
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Boeing temporarily halted test flights of its new 737 MAX aircraft due to an issue with the engine, which is jointly made by General Electric and Safran SA of France.
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If test flights continue as expected, Blue Origin pilots could begin flying next year, with paying passengers to follow in 2018, Bezos told Reuters during an interview earlier this year.
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Workers said that a stray bolt had been discovered in an engine and that a ladder had been left in the tail of planes that went up for test flights.
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After its first two test flights, the SLS's third launch is supposed to be a big one: a trip to send humans back to the Moon under NASA's Artemis program.
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Ansgar Kadura, a founder and the chief operating officer of Wingcopter, told me, "We've already been here in Mwanza for six months," conducting test flights to an island called Ukerewe.
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The two companies have also spent time since the accident in May 2019 running over 2,000 test flights in Switzerland on improved drones that should be less prone to failure.
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Tasnim, citing the state television report, said Iran's new jet had already been through successful test flights and would soon be ready to carry out shorter distance aerial support missions.
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By the time test flights began to suggest fundamental problems with the plane's architecture, it was 503, and America was in the depths of the worst recession since the 1930s.
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Boeing earlier this year briefly suspended 737 MAX test flights while CFM, co-owned by Safran and General Electric, conducted checks after a problem was found in a turbine disc.
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Uber said on Tuesday it will begin test flights of the pilotless aircraft in Melbourne and U.S. cities Dallas and Los Angles in 2020 before commercial operations begin in 2023.
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Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect that Bob Smith said the company would fly a few test flights before the end of the year rather than two flights.
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And my entire team is looking forward to further test flights in the near future as we move steadily toward a full commercial passenger service from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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Their test flights over the summer delivered pizzas to Ampitavanana and Torotosy villages, and returned blood and fecal samples to Centre ValBio, effectively proving their return flight ability and diagnostic potential.
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Boeing earlier this year briefly suspended 737 MAX test flights while CFM, co-owned by Safran and General Electric, conducted checks after a quality problem was found in a turbine disc.
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Shi had said the firm was being cautious over issues with the plane's technology and engine that had surfaced but that COMAC expected future test flights to be very close together.
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Musk said that the first test flights of the BFR—small "hops" where the rocket flies a few miles into the air before returning to Earth—will occur early next year.
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Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides explained that the company still has a couple of test flights remaining before it moves operations down to New Mexico, where flights with customers will begin.
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The company plans to do the first demonstration flight of the full Vector rocket sometime this summer, and the first sub-orbital test flights of the vehicle will occur sometime 2017.
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Ehang 184, the eponymous giant, 0003-pound drone first introduced at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, is returning to Nevada for potential test flights, according to The Las Vegas Review Journal.
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The base was used to build prototypes and run test flights for the vessels, which could reach higher altitudes than standard crafts of the time, as declassified documents would later reveal.
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The license, granted by the Federal Aviation Administration, allows Virgin Galactic to begin conducting test flights of the vehicle to see if it's capable of carrying paying customers safely above Earth.
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Meanwhile, fellow space tourism company Virgin Galactic should soon begin powered test flights of its spaceplane, VSS Unity, which is also designed to give passengers a short weightless experience in space.
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The test flights were intended to inform officials on moving forward with the potential OA-X program, a fast-tracked buy of a cheaper aircraft to be used in counterterrorism operations.
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Stucky had piloted SpaceShipTwo on two dozen previous test flights, including three of the four times that it had fired its rocket booster, which was necessary to propel it into space.
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Because many of the jets will have been in storage for at least six months by the time the grounding is lifted, they will require extensive maintenance checks and test flights.
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The Dream Chaser is still under development by Sierra Nevada, but the company expects to resume test flights in December and begin shuttling cargo to the International Space Station in 2019.
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While the F.A.A. allows test flights of autonomous vehicles, there is no path to certify and commercialize them despite a constant stream of headlines about efforts from Uber, Airbus and others.
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A startup called Boom is designing a prototype and says it will begin flying test flights next year, and it will face competition from a partnership of Aerion Supersonic with Airbus.
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The company, which has flown thousands of test flights over the years, is preparing to launch what it hopes is the world's first autonomous air taxi service in the coming months.
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A second ship has made two test flights, and Blue Origin is in the process of assembling its next two vehicles, which, for the first time, include windows for paying passengers.
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He would not say when New Shepard would undergo its next round of test flights, or set a specific date as a goal, merely mentioning next year for possible tourist trips.
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The certification process for the MAX has come under scrutiny but it was not clear to what extent if any these test flights might have been a factor in any shortcomings.
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It all sounds great and fantastically futuristic on paper, but Hyundai has yet to conduct any test flights, piloted or otherwise, nor has it said how much all this will cost.
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Uber wants to perform its own test flights in 2020, and it plans to launch some version of an air taxi service in 2023, starting in Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles, California.
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China landed two test flights on one of the islands on Wednesday, four days after its first landing on the 3,000 meter (10,000 feet) runway on a reef in the Spratly Islands.
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Virgin Galactic — which plans to use a rocket-powered plane to fly groups of people to the edge of space — has conducted two test flights above the 50-mile mark since December.
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Muilenburg said he recently joined one of 20153 test flights during which Boeing crew performed different scenarios that exercised the software changes in multiple flight conditions over 159 hours of air time.
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COMAC Vice President Shi Jianzhong has previously said the gap between the C919's future test flights would be much shorter than the nearly five-month gap between its first and second.
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"We've also flown more than 814 test flights with the updated software and conducted numerous simulator sessions with 545 participants from 99 customers and 41 global regulators," Muilenburg is set to say.
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The money will help in the development of the company's air taxi prototype, which, according to a report in Bloomberg, has been conducting test flights at Joby's private airfield in Northern California.
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In six years, the six T-50 prototypes have completed just 700 test flights, according to a recent article in Combat Aircraft magazine by Piotr Butowski, an expert in Russian military aviation.
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The vehicle was later repaired and completed several additional test flights through 2017, although it suffered another incident when it broke free of its moorings and deflated in 2017, injuring two people.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Bavarian start-up is developing a five-seat "flying taxi" after successful test flights over Germany of a smaller version of the electric jet, the company said on Thursday.
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Unfortunately, the LightningStrike won't begin test flights until at least 2018 — but that doesn't stop us from taking a few minutes to gawk at the computer generated concept video released by DARPA.
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The European planemaker uses a different version of the engine from those supplied to Boeing, which said earlier it had halted test flights on its 737 MAX due to an engine issue.
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Though they're still prototypes, the boots will actually be tested by astronaut pilots during upcoming Virgin Galactic test flights so that they can provide valuable feedback on their design before it's finalized.
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After more than three decades of development, North Korea has an impressive arsenal, according to a database of test flights since April 1984 recorded by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
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Speculation about last-minute fine-tuning resurfaced after the first aircraft was delivered after an unusually extensive series of 11 pre-delivery test flights, according to data from website Hamburg Finkenwerder News.
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However, JetBlue received the first A321neo in late June, and after two weeks of test flights on a variety of routes, the airline is ready to "officially" launch the plane into service.
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Current and former employees described finding a stray bolt left in an engine, and a ladder and strings of lights left in the tails of planes that went up for test flights.
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SpaceX has also scheduled test flights of the Crew Dragon, the capsule it is building to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, although that date may slip again into 2019.
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The flying public won't be able to buy tickets for those early test flights, but the companies behind the tests say it's an important step in proving that electric service is viable.
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It said on Wednesday it had suspended 737 MAX test flights due to a quality issue with some of the low-pressure turbine discs in the engine, known as the LEAP-1B.
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A: FAA engineers and test pilots were involved in testing of the MCAS, which included 297 certification test flights, said acting FAA chief Daniel Elwell in written testimony to the Senate panel.
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The appearance of the J-10s on Woody Island comes just over a year after China sent its H-6K long-range bombers to the island for test flights for the first time.
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The company has yet to announce its next flight, but Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson told CNN he plans to be the first non-test passenger after two to three more test flights.
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FOIA documents hosted on the CAA's website appear to show that Amazon test flights have been in fact been happening in the UK since summer 2015, longer than many were originally aware of.
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The vehicle, which launches from New Zealand, has been under development for the last four years, and Rocket Lab is now finally doing full-scale test flights through the end of the year.
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The planemaker said it had completed simulator testing and engineering test flights as well as developed training and education materials, which were now being reviewed by the FAA, global regulators and airline customers.
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The drone-fighter pairing isn't expected to happen any time soon — the F-35 has to first be upgraded, and the XQ58-A Valkyrie has only completed the first of five test flights.
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The two companies are scheduled to conduct uncrewed test flights of their spacecraft starting early next year, during which their vehicles will launch and dock with the space station without people on board.
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Dallas and Los Angeles are currently the only two cities that have agreed to host test flights starting in 2020, with a third international city expected to be added at a later date.
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And if both flights go up as planned, it will be the fastest turnaround yet for Rocket Lab, which has only conducted two test flights so far, which were about eight months apart.
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Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin expects to begin crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital New Shepard vehicle next year and begin flying paying passengers in 13, Bezos told reporters on Tuesday.
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Researchers for the study equipped an eight-rotor drone from the Swedish Transportation Agency with a GPS system, a camera and a defibrillator for several out-of-sight test flights in October 2016.
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Facebook and Google have teamed up to work with authorities, such as the Federal Aviation Administration, to get permission for test flights and obtain access to the spectrum they need to serve data.
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NASA says it hopes to fly the aircraft incrementally father and longer in the four subsequent test flights, with distances up to a few hundred meters and durations as long as 90 seconds.
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For now, SpaceX is readying the Starship Mk1 and Mk2 prototypes for their first test flights, which will aim to achieve high-altitude controlled flight and landing, but still remain within Earth's atmosphere.
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Blue Origin has had several successful test flights of its reusable New Shepard rocket, and is currently developing the larger, mostly reusable New Glenn rocket system, intended to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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Scalea and his team made a number of test flights carrying a human kidney in March and published their findings in the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine in November.
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It also suggests that the FAA develop a way to validate any assumptions about pilot behavior — this could include more simulator test flights with pilots who have not been briefed on the scenario.
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Blue Origin hopes to start test flights with humans aboard in the not too distant future, so knowing a bit more about what they might experience is an important datapoint for the company.
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Now that it has successfully performed a "hop" at a much higher altitude, SpaceX plans to move on to developing larger prototypes of Starship capable of suborbital test flights, according to Ars Technica.
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In the recent talk, General Hyten of Strategic Command called lasers much better than interceptor rockets because they avoided questions over firing weapons into sovereign territories, especially to knock out missile test-flights.
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But about 37 miles north in Snohomish County, away from the congestion on Interstate 5, a former military airfield called Paine Field was being used by Boeing for test flights and general aviation.
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The Kim regime is believed to be developing more mobile, solid-fueled missiles (the intercontinental ballistic missiles tested in 2017 used less stable and more corrosive liquid fuel) that will likely test flights.
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But the recent rise in failures suggests the effort to subvert Iran's space launches and missile test flights, and the resulting flows of forensic information needed to lift performance, may now have intensified.
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WASHINGTON — When a North Korean missile test went awry on Sunday, blowing up seconds after liftoff, there were immediate suspicions that a United States program to sabotage the test flights had struck again.
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Earlier this week, NASA said it's going to conduct a "cultural assessment study" of the two companies, "including the adherence to a drug-free environment," before crewed test flights will be allowed to happen.
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The first test model of the 100-seat MRJ, which made its maiden test flight last November, arrived in late September in Moses Lake in the U.S. state of Washington for further test flights.
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Since making the announcement, Wing has been running test flights in Teisko, a municipality to the north of Helsinki, to ensure that its drones are up to the task of flying in harsh conditions.
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Boeing said it plans to move all the aircraft from Moses Lake, an eastern Washington location where it runs test flights, to facilities in the Seattle and Everett areas where its factories are located.
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Both companies have been tapped by NASA to provide passenger spacecraft for the agency to shuttle astronauts from American soil to the International Space Station, with the first test flights scheduled for next year.
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The world has known about the Avic J-20 stealth fighters since their first test flights back in 2011, but this is the first time these fifth-generation planes were showcased to the public.
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Daniels tells The Verge that HAV has a number of interested buyers, but that firms are waiting to see the Airlander 10's first test flights later this year before they commit to anything.
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Those rich enough to pay for private travel won't be the first humans carried into space by Bezos' rockets, though — the Guardian reports that the company's first piloted test flights will begin in 2017.
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Nicknamed "The Flying Bum," the helium-filled aircraft took off from its central-England airfield last week to begin its initial testing, and was flying this morning for a second round of test flights.
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Expect more ultra-long flightsOne thing that was interesting about the Qantas announcement is all the research it plans to do during its test flights — scheduled for October through December — on the passengers themselves.
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I was testing on a baseball field (one I've often used for drone test flights) and was stunned to see how Helix and Dronie QuickShot patterns almost sent the drone out of the field.
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In the simulations with the current MCAS software, the test pilots used existing procedures to disable the system, while test flights using the new software required less intervention from the pilots, the person said.
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The Philippines and Vietnam protested against China's test flights on the Fiery Cross reef this month, saying Beijing might impose an air defense identification zone, restricting flights by commercial airlines over the South China Sea.
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Terry Wohlers, president of U.S.-based industry consultancy Wohlers Associates, said after initial doubts his optimism for the project was rekindled when learning that the first parts demonstrated would be in test flights this year.
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Originally, the company had planned to do three test flights before the Electron was deemed ready for commercial missions, but Rocket Lab says it may skip the final test depending on how this one goes.
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But before the companies can start doing full missions to the station, NASA wants each spacecraft to do two test flights to the ISS first: one without people on board and then one with crew.
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Boeing said it's completed 96 test flights totaling more than 159 hours of air time with a new software fix, and expects to submit the plan to the Federal Aviation Administration in a couple weeks.
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Blue Origin's testing has included eight test launches and returns of the New Shepard so far, including some with dummies inside, though no humans have yet been put on board any of the test flights.
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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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After inspecting the LEAP 1B engines and working with the engine manufacturer CFM International, Boeing resumed test flights, and the first 737 MAX 8 was delivered in mid-May to the Asian carrier Malindo Air.
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Test flights won't start until at least 2020 NASA began soliciting concepts for supersonic test aircraft last year, with a specific focus on planes that could break the sound barrier without creating massive sonic booms.
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The European Aviation Safety Agency is planning to send its own officials to the US to conduct test flights of Boeing's fix for the 737 Max before it allows the plane back into European airspace.
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The display model is a replica of the company's only full-size operational prototype, which is expected to begin remote-controlled test flights soon at the firm's Massachusetts lab, said Chief Executive Officer Steve Hanvey.
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It's an honest assessment from a company that claimed the title of world's first flying taxi: The EHang 184 is an autonomous passenger drone that has already passed test flights in the skies of Dubai.
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Boeing said it is testing non-commercial flights, both short and long-haul, to see how its updated software reacts before the US Federal Aviation Administration conducts test flights as part of its re-approval process.
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Flying above the California desert, the test flights resulted in the successful demonstration of an imaging system that can capture high-quality images of shockwaves, which are rapid pressure changes produced when an aircraft flies supersonic.
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A prototype test model has flown more than 50 test flights at the Pendleton UAS Range in Oregon, U.S. The most expensive weapon in history, the F-35 is returning to Paris after its 2017 debut.
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Blue Origin had hoped to begin test flights with company pilots and engineers in 2017, but that probably will not happen until next year, Bezos told reporters at the annual U.S. Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
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So far, the company is carrying out test flights of the craft as an unmanned drone in order to develop its software and systems fully before fitting a seat and handlebars to produce a passenger version.
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As someone who — well, let's just say, someone who isn't used to flying in private planes, aside from a few work-related test flights, I was impressed by the incredible convenience and versatility of the jet.
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"The successful test flights proved that the airport has the capacity to ensure the safe operation of large civilian aircraft," Xinhua said, adding that the airport would facilitate the transport of supplies, personnel and medical aid.
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In a news conference on Monday, Mr. Elleman said North Korea would have to conduct a minimum of two or three more ICBM test flights to make sure its rocket designers have fixed the warhead problem.
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"With safety as our clear priority, we have completed all of the engineering test flights for the software update and are preparing for the final certification flight," said Boeing Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg.
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Aerospace startup Rocket Lab launched its experimental Electron rocket for the first time from New Zealand today — marking the first of three test flights the company hopes to do this year before the vehicle begins commercial launches.
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The Philippines has filed a protest against China's test flights from an artificial island in the South China Sea, a foreign ministry spokesman said, describing the actions as "provocative" and a violation of an existing informal code.
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Opener's BlackFly can travel for 2016 miles at 72 miles per hour in Canada, where it was originally headquartered and still conducts test flights, or for 25 miles at 62 miles per hour in the United States.
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Though no test flights were performed today, we did get our first look at this bad boy in tons of hi-res photos that will put a smile on the face of anyone who fancies aircraft porn.
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Musk has said the prototype Starship will be ready for short test flights as early as this year – although the company is facing a development setback after the top half of the rocket blew over in January.
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Using a request under Australia's Freedom of Information Act, NetzPolitik got hold of a document that shows the two companies spent last year in talks over a collaboration with test flights scheduled for November and December 2018.
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But that means graduating from unmanned test flights, of which it has done zero this year until the launch from its West Texas facility on Tuesday, to manned flights with test pilots and onward to commercial ones.
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The first three test flights of the D-21 from the M-21 Blackbird went smoothly, but on the fourth attempt, the drone experienced an "asymmetric unstart" passing through the bow wake of its M-21 mothership.
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Space tourists that fly with the company — which is expected to start launching crewed test flights in 2017 — will get the chance to see the the Earth against the blackness of space an experience minutes of weightlessness.
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He has successfully launched and kept them airborne for several hours with the help of scores of volunteers in recent test flights in Berlin, New Mexico and Bolivia that are part amateur science experiment, part performance art.
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Now Boom is one step closer, as it reveals the XB-245 Supersonic Demonstrator, a 24/210-scale prototype of its Boom supersonic passenger aircraft, which will be doing its first supersonic test flights later this year.
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One option is to "refine the remaining Soyuz launch schedule" for access into January 2020; another is to turn some test flights into operational flights by adding more crew members and extending the length of the flights.
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The ride-hailing company has said it wants to perform its own test flights in 603, and plans to launch some version of an air taxi service in 2023, starting in Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles, California.
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Kim declared his nuclear force was complete after the torrent of weapons tests in 2017, including the detonation of a purported thermonuclear weapon and three test-flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles potentially capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.
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The company recently launched and landed one of its rockets for the third time, and the company could start launching crewed test flights of the rocket and capsule by 2017 with paying customers flying in 2018, Bezos said.
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Boeing and SpaceX are still planning to fly astronauts up to the space station later this year, with both aerospace companies aiming for their first test flights—flying up empty to prove they're safe and sound—in August.
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Also, Airbus has stopped delivering A320neo jets powered by Pratt & Whitney geared-turbofan engines and halted pre-delivery test flights after the latest in a series of problems with the engines, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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Although it is several years away from making its first test flights, Terrafugia says the TF-X will be able to operate autonomously with four people on board for 800km (500 miles) at a cruising speed of 320kph.
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I think once we're in space, we'll obviously need to do a number of other test flights before I go up, and then before we start putting the ... astronauts who signed up to go into space with us.
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Last week, Beijing allowed in its first group of tourists, most of them family of soldiers stationed on man-made Fiery Cross in the Spratly Islands, as it began test flights on the 3,000-metre (10,000-ft) runway.
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Amazon has also been fine tuning its drone plans this year, but not in the United States, opting instead to operate test flights in Canada and the U.K. without the restrictions that come with piloting in U.S. airspace.
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The startup, which was founded in 2017, had been working towards test flights of its first spacecraft, making progress including an early successful engine test using its experimental, more eco-friendly rocket fuel that was completed in February.
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A United Nations Security Council resolution, also negotiated in Vienna as the nuclear accord was being completed, calls on Iran to show restraint in testing, and prohibits test flights of a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead.
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It was after the last failure that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was reported to have ordered an investigation into whether the United States was sabotaging his country's test flights, searching for spies in his system.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it would conduct a "cultural assessment study" of the companies, "including the adherence to a drug-free environment," prior to crew test flights scheduled to take place in the coming months.
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Blue Origin aims to start test flights with company pilots and engineers either this year or next, with a goal towards offering 11-minute commercial flights that enable passengers to experience weightlessness and see the curvature of the earth.
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Videos of his prior test flights showed that the rockets did not explode in a cloud of steam in mid-air, which is good, but also did not exactly appear to be equipped with the latest-generation parachute technology.
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The Galveston thumps are a lead-in to two possible FAA rule changes: one that would establish noise standards for supersonic planes and another that would permit test flights of civilian aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound.
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Test flights sent to the edge of space have demonstrated that coronagraph systems can successfully block out the light of a distant star, then make the minute adjustments necessary to their imaging and mirror systems to show surrounding objects.
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After a series of successful test flights in Australia (pictured above), BAE's engineers are ready to apply the lessons they have learned to their designs of combat aircraft that might take to the sky a decade or so hence.
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said Monday that the company has conducted almost 500 test flights with a new software update to its grounded 737 Max planes that he hopes will help win back the confidence of the flying public.
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TO> has no plans to scrap its ultra-long-distance business jet, the Global 8000, and will shift resources to the project following the completion of test flights for the shorter-range Global 7000, a spokesman said on Thursday.
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Even if concerns over the FAA's sign-off continue to linger, airlines — which now know what to look for — will also conduct their own inspections of the fix and test flights before putting the planes go back into service.
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It is unlikely that the verification commission will make progress in resolving the allegation, since the Russians have never acknowledged the existence of the missile, even though American officials say test flights may have begun as early as 2008.
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Captain Brown's test flights established the North American P-51 Mustang as the fast and maneuverable fighter-escort that smothered the Luftwaffe in dogfights over the Continent late in the war and gave top cover for Allied bombing runs into Germany.
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It's possible that Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin could launch powered test flights with crew of their suborbital vehicles in the months to come, though it's unclear which company will make it to the edge of space with paying customers first.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines plans to install a $1-million satellite-based system to track commercial flights over the disputed South China Sea, after China landed its first test flights this month on a reef it built in the Spratly islands.
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This month China landed its first test flights on a new 3,000 meter (10,000 ft) runway it has built on a reef in the Spratly Islands, drawing protests from Vietnam and the Philippines which have overlapping claims in the area.
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In April, Lilium said it was developing a five-seat "flying taxi" after mounting successful test flights of a two-seat jet capable of a mid-air transition from hover mode, like drones, to wing-borne flight, like conventional aircraft.
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Since April Boeing has been running rigorous rounds of test flights with the new software, both in flight simulators and in the air, as it looks to improve the safety of its best-selling aircraft, with about 5,000 pending orders.
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The investigation found that Boeing workers have installed faulty parts in planes at the facility, and that some aircraft have even taken test flights with debris such as tools and metal shavings inside the engine or tail, creating potential safety hazards.
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Having both the IDAs installed on the Space Station is key milestone in the commercial crew program, but there are still plenty of hurdles left to clear — including the first test flights of commercial Crew vehicles with astronauts on board.
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Branson plans to be on the first commercial flight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space plane, which is currently in the process of flying a number of glide test flights before starting powered tests later this fall using its rocket booster.
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This month China landed its first test flights on a new 3,000 metre (10,000 ft) runway it has built on a reef in the Spratly Islands, drawing protests from Vietnam and the Philippines which have overlapping claims in the area.
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The clips include everything from the assembly of the D-558 Skystreak aircraft back in 1947 to a 1991 takeoff of a Lockheed Martin SR-71 stealth jet to hypersonic test flights of the unmanned NASA X-43A in 2004.
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"Because our new vehicle is so similar to its predecessor, we benefit from incredibly useful data from 55 successful test flights as well as the brutal but important lessons from one tragic flight test accident," Virgin Galactic said in a statement.
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The preparation involved was stupendous: miles and miles of test flights; customised gear ranging from a heated body suit powered by the paramotor's engine to hacked eReaders used as GPS devices; and an immense amount of behind-the-scenes planning.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has filed a protest against China's test flights from an artificial island in the South China Sea, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, describing the actions as "provocative" and a violation of an existing informal code.
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Thursday will not be the first time the helicopter has flown above D.C. It has reportedly embarked on several test flights around the District over the past few months, but the July Fourth celebration will mark the aircraft's first official use.
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PARKER SOLAR PROBE: NASA SPACECRAFT IS ITS FIRST NAMED AFTER A LIVING PERSON NASA recently named the nine American astronauts that will crew the test flights and first missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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Well, it turns out that the airborne vehicle has been part of a series of "stealth" test flights by a company personally financed by Larry Page, the co-founder of Google and now the chief executive of Google's parent, Alphabet.
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The Philippines plans to install a $1 million satellite-based system on Thitu to track commercial flights over the South China Sea, after China landed its first test flights this month on a reef it built in the Spratly islands.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Friday urged Southeast Asian neighbors to put pressure on China to agree on a binding code of conduct to ease tension in South China Sea following Chinese test flights to an island it has built.
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Virgin Galactic — which plans to use a rocket-powered plane to fly groups of people to the edge of space — has conducted two test flights above the 50-mile mark since December, including one that carried a crew member in the passenger cabin.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Wednesday landed two test flights on an island it has built in the South China Sea, four days after it angered Vietnam with a landing on the same runway in the disputed territory, the Xinhua state news agency said.
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MANILA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The Philippines has filed a protest against China's test flights on an artificial island in the South China Sea, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, describing the actions as "provocative" and a violation of an existing informal code.
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Of some 50 Max customers and operators, Muilenburg said more than 85% had experienced the new software in simulator sessions and that 120 737 Max test flights had been held with more than 230 hours of air time with the new software.
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For reference, the most powerful rocket flying today, United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy, produces about 2 million pounds of thrust at launch, while SpaceX's future Falcon Heavy rocket should produce about 5 million pounds of thrust when it begins test flights.
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BEIJING, April 23 (Reuters) - China's national space agency said on Tuesday it will soon announce rules to regulate commercial rocket manufacturing, test flights and launches, state media reported, as the number of private startups in the nascent sector surged in the past year.
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Rocket Lab's original plan was to do three test flights before moving to commercial missions, but Beck told Space News that if this second flight is a success, the company will skip the third test and move straight to launching customer payloads.
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Of some 50 MAX customers and operators, Muilenburg said more than 85 percent had experienced the new software in simulator sessions and that 120 737 MAX test flights had been held with more than 230 hours of air time with the new software.
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Following successful test flights in December and February, which christened five new astronauts, Virgin Galactic told CNBC that about 2,500 people have expressed interest in paying for a flight – in addition to the more than 600 would-be-astronauts previously signed up.
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There's no indication that delaying some initial 737 Max deliveries will jeopardize Boeing's production plans, but pushing back Norwegian's delivery comes less than a month after Boeing suspended 737 MAX test flights to inspect some of the engines for a potential manufacturing flaw.
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After spending the winter at Kalaeloa airport, the Solar Impulse team was able to repair the plane and successfully conduct 13 test flights in Hawaii, as well as a number of high-altitude training flights with Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, the other pilot.
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But it's not just NASA that has a busy year ahead; the commercial space industry has a number of significant test flights planned, and the launch of one of the world's most anticipated rockets, the Falcon Heavy, is slated for early 2018.
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The first test flights were buffeted by vicious cross-winds, making it too dangerous for large aircraft to land and leading to an 18-month delay in its opening, during which time the British press dubbed it the "world's most useless airport".
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To not only detect enemy drones, but predict where they will be in the future, CTO Guy Bar-Nahum, and a team of machine learning and computer vision experts, devised a creative method of training their machine learning frameworks using simulated test-flights.
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UPS also invested in the robotics startup Zipline earlier this summer, announcing plans to deliver blood and vaccines to transfusion centers in Rwanda in drone test flights, which the company says may prove considerably faster than ground transport to remote rural medical centers.
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In a news media briefing near the factory in Renton where the 737 Max is assembled, Mike Sinnett, Boeing's vice president of product strategy, said the new software had been tested and that F.A.A. regulators had taken test flights on updated jets.
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Some of the risks - such as those identified in the designs of the enormous parachutes that deploy when the capsule plummets back to Earth at supersonic speeds - are uncommon given how close SpaceX is to test flights, two of the people said.
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Following successful test flights and certifications from EASA and the FAA, Qatar Airways took the first delivery of an Airbus A350-900 XWB in December 2014, marking a new era for Airbus that would see it double down on next-generation aircraft.
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With both of SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets listed at prices far below comparable ULA rockets, the primarily government contractor is pushing to develop a new range of offerings to compete — but those are still several years away from test flights.
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The stock hit a new all-time high of more than $264 a share, with Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides telling CNBC that the company will now conduct final test flights, aiming to later this year fly founder Sir Richard Branson to space.
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"I think there is going to be less time between the uncrewed vehicle for Boeing and the crewed vehicle for Boeing, and longer time between SpaceX [capsule test flights] – which means, whoever gets to fly that first crew, we don't know right now," Bridenstine said.
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Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is gearing up to unveil its latest spaceship and embark on a new phase of test flights following a fatal crash nearly two years ago, and get its plan to launch the world's first "commercial human spaceflight program" back on track.
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Mark "Forger" Stucky, who has piloted SpaceShipTwo on more than a dozen test flights, said he takes it "very seriously" — "but I don't feel like I'm walking the plank or, you know, flipping the coin on whether I'm going to live or not," he said.
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BEIJING, Jan 6 (Reuters) - China on Wednesday landed two test flights on an island it has built in the South China Sea, four days after it angered Vietnam with a landing on the same runway in the disputed territory, the Xinhua state news agency said.
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During the space race between the United States and the former Soviet Union that began in the late 1950s, Johnson and her co-workers ran the numbers for unmanned rocket launches, test flights and airplane safety studies using pencils, slide rules and mechanical calculating machines.
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HAPSMobile, the brainchild of SoftBank Corp's Chief Technology Officer Junichi Miyakawa, aims to commercialise its services in 2023 and has been conducting low altitude test flights of its drones, which have a wingspan of almost 80 metres (87.49 yards), from a NASA facility in California.
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Irkut and its state-controlled parent company United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) staged the maiden flight of an MS-21-300 model in May and said the jet would be put through more than 1,100 additional test flights when certification testing begins in a few months' time.
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Norwegian also announced that from 2020 it would use eight new single-aisle Airbus A321neoLRs, currently undergoing test flights including across the Atlantic, to fly from Britain to cities on the U.S east coast and in the mid-west, keeping up the pressure on established airlines.
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Elwell said the agency will submit an update to the plane's flight-control software "in the next week or so," adding that the FAA will review the changes, conduct test flights and evaluate any additional pilot training needed before the planes are allowed to fly again.
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Chinese warplanes are likely to come into increasing contact with U.S. fighters over the South China Sea in the years ahead after Beijing conducted its first test flights this month to one of three island runways it is building in the contested Spratly archipelago, security experts said.
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NASA has relied on Russian rockets to ferry astronauts to the space station since the United States retired its Space Shuttle program in 2011, though the agency has announced plans for test flights carrying two astronauts on commercial rockets made by Boeing and SpaceX next April.
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CERTIFICATION Once the software updates, test flights and pilot training recommendations are finalized, the FAA must approve the jets for flight and has said it will need about 30 days from the time the certification flight is completed before it decides whether to allow flights to resume.
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Once the software updates, test flights and pilot training recommendations are finalized, the FAA must approve the jets for flight and has said it will need about 30 days from the time the certification flight is completed before it decides whether to allow flights to resume.
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Competitors range from Airbus, which says it has already conducted numerous flying vehicle test flights, to Volocopter, which has tested drone taxis that resemble a small helicopter powered by 18 rotors, and AeroMobil, with a stretch-limousine concept that can turn into a fixed-wing aircraft.
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This is the first step in a partnership that could eventually result in actually running test flights and establishing routes for air taxi service deployment, though how far things go will likely depend on the results of this study and the subsequent appetites of both parties involved.
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Updated software required less intervention from pilots In the simulations run over the weekend with the current MCAS software, the test pilots used existing procedures to disable the system, while test flights using the new software required less intervention from the pilots, a source told CNN.
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Since he took power in 2011, Mr. Kim has rapidly accelerated his country's missile program, which culminated in a series of test flights of its Hwasong-14 and Hwasong-15 long-range missiles in 2017, some of them believed to be capable of reaching North America.
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While I comfortably flew in a large open field, I also successfully flew it in my tiny backyard, did a couple of test-flights inside my house and one in Mashable's New York City studio space (without GPS, it had a little trouble responding to my land command).
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Though its timeline of when it expected to hand over the fixes for final FAA approval has slipped, on Tuesday, Boeing said that it has conducted more than 0007 test flights with the new software and that it had completed a "dry run" of a certification test flight.
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The company conducted over 1,000 test flights with human passengers, including a 984-foot (300-meter) vertical climb, a weight test carrying over 500 pounds (6173 kilograms), a routed test flight covering 9.3 miles (15 kilometers), and a high-speed cruising test that reached 80.7 mph (130 km/h).
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The first test flights should provide useful information about how to make sure passengers are comfortable — even though the mostly empty cabin will not perfectly replicate real-world conditions — and how to ensure that pilots and crew members can remain rested and alert enough to perform the flights.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk noted that rocket tests usually carry along "boring" cargo to simulate weight — but Musk is clearly not interested in the notion of boring: A Red Car for the Red Planet Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks.
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An engineering model that was very close to final has over an hour of time in the air, but these two brief test flights were the first and last time the tiny craft will take flight until it does so on the distant planet (not counting its "flight" during launch).
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has relied on Russian rockets to ferry astronauts to the space station since the United States retired its Space Shuttle program in 2011, though the agency has announced plans for test flights carrying two astronauts on commercial rockets made by Boeing and SpaceX next April.
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If this Dragon completes the rest of its mission as planned, it'll be recovered, refurbished and hopefully reused in a future mission SpaceX is working on Dragon 2, a capsule designed to bring crew to and from the ISS, and hopes to run test flights with astronauts on board beginning next year.
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The country is already conducting research and development into a number of relevant areas for fighter design, including stealth technologies, fighter engines and active electronically scanned radars, and had previously built a technology demonstrator, the X-2 Shinshin, and carried out a series of test flights with this aircraft to validate these technologies.
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BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) - Development of China's C22018 single-aisle plane, already at least five years behind schedule, is going slower than expected, a dozen people familiar with the program told Reuters, as the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation (COMAC) struggles with a range of technical issues that have severely restricted test flights.
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The Starship Mk I Prototype and Mk II prototypes, which are under construction simultaneously at SpaceX facilities in South Texas and Florida, will be used to test flights at higher altitudes and higher speeds, and will use as many as three to six Raptor engines simultaneously, versus the single engine used with the StarHopper.
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In a partnership with the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Amazon now has the permission to explore beyond-line-of-sight operations in rural and suburban areas (something the U.S.'s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) does not currently allow), test flights where a single person monitors and operates multiple autonomous drones and trial its sense and avoid technologies.
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The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has indicated that it will be taking a closer look at Boeing's fix for the plane than it typically would — normally, the safety regulator from the plane-maker's home country certifies a new or updated plane, and other regulators simply accept and implement their findings, with maybe just a few test flights of their own.
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Although Boeing proved to the FAA during certification test flights that MCAS could be disabled safely should it unintentionally activate, the NTSB report says that the test scenarios — which met FAA requirements — did not reflect the real-world scenario of multiple conflicting and confusing alarms, and did not account for the fact that that scenario could lead to pilots responding and behaving differently.
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