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Off-duty pilot saved doomed Lion Air flight from disaster one day earlier

The Lion Air passenger plane carrying 189 people when it crashed off the coast of Indonesia is the latest in a long list of incidents for the budget flight charter. The low-cost airline has been involved in numerous crashes in … Continue reading

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Crash expert Greg Feith slams critics of 737 MAX certification process

The 737 MAX winglet One of the world’s leading crash expert, Greg Feith has slammed critics of 737 MAX certification process. Feith, a retired senior crash investigator at the US National Transport Safety Bureau, is one of the world most … Continue reading

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Oregon teens are building airplanes on the weekend through Teen Flight (Video)

Over the course of 75 Saturdays, a group of teens will build an airplane at Hillsboro Airport. Not a remote-controlled model — an actual aircraft that will take each of them up in the air. Teen Flight is a program … Continue reading

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Can Hybrid Tech Lead to the First All Electric Airliner?

A hybrid system does this, in effect, by using a small, efficient fuel-burning “sustainer” engine for the cruise segment and by taking a surge of supplemental power from the batteries for takeoff and climb. Some of the output would be … Continue reading

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Boeing Brings 100 Years Of History To Its Fight To Restore Its Reputation

Boeing 737 Max jets are grounded at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix on March 14. Matt York/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt York/AP Boeing 737 Max jets are grounded at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix on March 14. … Continue reading

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Model planes, drones to fly at HobbyTown

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Boeing 737 MAX incidents spark safety approval questions

Jeff Wise: Right. So the context of all this happening is that Boeing gets a big chunk of its profits from the most popular airplane that it builds, the 737. It’s been building them since 1967. It’s a whole different … Continue reading

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