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Trump’s Boeing Provocation Could Backfire

It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump’s attention would turn to Boeing, the U.S.’s largest exporter and its second-largest defense contractor. One of Boeing’s biggest customers happens to be China, the country the president-elect seems most intent … Continue reading

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Cuomo staff hopes to overcome rejection of $12.5 million helicopter purchase

ALBANY – The state’s chief fiscal watchdog has rejected the no-bid purchase of a $12.5 million helicopter intended for the State Police but also to ferry Gov. Andrew Cuomo around the state. Cuomo administration officials, however, insisted that the purchase … Continue reading

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Donating your aircraft

Many business jets have recently been depreciating faster than ever before. Some models whose value historically declined an average of 4 percent per year experienced losses in excess of 20 percent in 2015. Aircraft Value Reference Guide (Vref), for example, … Continue reading

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Longtime Danbury Resident Fred W. Eggers, 70, Passed Away

DANBURY, CT — Fred W. Eggers, 70, of Danbury, loving husband of Barbara Stauder, passed away surrounded by his family on Sunday, November 27, 2016 at Regional Hospice of Danbury after a courageous battle with cancer. Fred was born on … Continue reading

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How Amazon Plans to Totally Reinvent Grocery Shopping

The Jeff Bezos playbook works something like this: sketch out a big, audacious goal in a fledgling market, launch with a modest yet fine-tuned project and build incrementally over many years until you’re the 500-lb. gorilla of a thriving industry. … Continue reading

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Engine failure may have caused Riau airplane crash

Doomed flight: Police personnel carry a body bag containing debris and belongings recovered from an aircraft carrying 13 police personnel that went missing on Saturday in Batam, Riau Islands.(Antara/Reuters/MN Kanwa) While the National Police have claimed they are still investigating … Continue reading

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Colorado-based Boom Technology is bringing back supersonic. But will the airlines buy it?

By Justin Bachman, Bloomberg News Ask a harried air traveler about the basics of modern flight, and you’ll probably elicit surprise when they discover commercial airplanes fly only as fast as they did in the 1950s. Given the range of aerospace … Continue reading

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