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Fitch Rates Boeing’s Proposed Senior Unsecured Notes ‘A’

NEW YORK CHICAGO, Oct 28, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Fitch Ratings expects to assign an ‘A’ long-term rating to The Boeing Company’s (BA) proposed issuance of approximately $850 million of senior unsecured notes. The notes will be issued in three … Continue reading

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Can Smaller Tails Mean Greener Planes?

The large amount of jet fuel required to fly an airplane from point A to point B can have negative impacts on the environment and—as higher fuel costs contribute to rising ticket prices—a traveler’s wallet. With funding from NASA and … Continue reading

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Fairfield Flying Aces: Generations bond, imaginations soar with model planes

Men who once were active pilots and air crew chiefs are now passing their enthusiasm and know-how about flying to young people through a model plane workshop at the Fairfield Senior Center. The program’s first session, called Build-A-Plane Day, took … Continue reading

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Windowless Plane Would Let Passengers See World Around Them

If a window seat is enough to make you nervous on a flight, you might want to avoid a new kind of plane that could fly in as soon as a decade. UK-based tech innovation company Centre for Process Innovation … Continue reading

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Behind the Wheel of the Bespoke Bentley

In Crewe, in the northeast of England, Noel Thompson is using an ordinary kitchen fork to punch a perforated line into a lovely piece of burgundy leather. He’s one of 3,700 employees who make one of the world’s most coveted … Continue reading

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Jerrie Mock in the ‘Spirit of Columbus’ (All photos from Facebook page of …

How had I, a kid in northern Ohio then and stuck on Amelia Earhart from an early age, missed that? Well, as I learned from my recent casual polling, I was far from alone in missing Jerrie’s adventure and not … Continue reading

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Fitch Rates Boeing’s Proposed Senior Unsecured Notes ‘A’

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