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MISSOULA – For what is likely the last time, veterans who faced one of the bloodiest battles in human history will gather on the French shoreline next month for the 75th anniversary of the “D-Day” Invasion.

They’ll be saluted from the skies, as aviators and paratroopers simulate a piece of that epic battle, jumping from historic planes. But getting one of those planes there is taking an epic restoration and community effort right here in Montana.

D-Day was the Allies’ bold stroke which started the end of World War II in Europe. It was a victory built on the bodies and valor of the soldiers, sailors and airmen.

But it also depended on a great assemblage of equipment, including the venerable C-47 cargo plane, also known as the DC-3 in civilian form.

The “Miss Montana” has been prepared to soar to Normandy by a volunteer force at the Museum of Mountain Flying over the past year.

“Airplane mechanics. We’ve got guys here who are pretty good carpenters. Wiring guys, let’s see — just about anything you can imagine and they’ve all got a great attitude. And the thing I love is, I often thank them. And they say ‘oh no, thank you for letting me work here.,” said Missoula Montana project leader Bryan Douglass.

“This plane doesn’t

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All 89 people on board managed to walk away from the broken-down jet after Myanmar Airlines flight UB-103 was grounded at around 9am on Sunday in Mandalay.

Footage on social media shows the Embraer-190 model gracefully landing before the nose falls forward and grinds into the runway. “Smoke came out a little when we landed… All passengers are okay,” passenger Soe Moe told AFP.

Myanmar National Airlines is dispatching a team of engineers to Mandalay to inspect the aircraft.

The incident comes just days after another aircraft skidded off the runway at Myanmar’s Yangon International Airport. The Biman Airlines’ Bombardier Dash-8 aircraft broke into three parts during the crash and four people reportedly suffered injuries.

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MISSOULA – For what is likely the last time, veterans who faced one of the bloodiest battles in human history will gather on the French shoreline next month for the 75th anniversary of the “D-Day” Invasion.

They’ll be saluted from the skies, as aviators and paratroopers simulate a piece of that epic battle, jumping from historic planes. But getting one of those planes there is taking an epic restoration and community effort right here in Montana.

D-Day was the Allies’ bold stroke which started the end of World War II in Europe. It was a victory built on the bodies and valor of the soldiers, sailors and airmen.

But it also depended on a great assemblage of equipment, including the venerable C-47 cargo plane, also known as the DC-3 in civilian form.

The “Miss Montana” has been prepared to soar to Normandy by a volunteer force at the Museum of Mountain Flying over the past year.

“Airplane mechanics. We’ve got guys here who are pretty good carpenters. Wiring guys, let’s see — just about anything you can imagine and they’ve all got a great attitude. And the thing I love is, I often thank them. And they say ‘oh no, thank you for letting me work here.,” said Missoula Montana project leader Bryan Douglass.

“This plane doesn’t have a military history so to speak. But it certainly has a great history around here for Missoula, and such an iconic airplane for the Missoula Valley and Montana in general, Miss Montana pilot Art Dykstra told MTN News.

Iconic,

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GE Aviation, which supplies jet engines to about 60 percent of the global airline industry, has built a supply chain track-and-trace blockchain with the help of Microsoft Azure.  

GE Aviation Digital Group aims to share the blockchain, a self-built derivative of ethereum, across an industry-wide consortium of partners. The ledger’s use case, which is about monitoring and collating data tied to the manufacture and life cycle of critical aircraft engine parts, could scarcely be more pertinent given the recent travails of Boeing.  

David Havera, blockchain CTO of the GE Aviation Digital Group told CoinDesk:

“Our vision is being able to trace parts as they are manufactured and the engine when it’s shipped. Then how that engine performs in the field, when to repair it and then re-enter it into the field.”

While GE Aviation sells aircraft engines to commercial airlines and the military, GE Aviation Digital Group is a business unit within that which employs some 700 staff globally and sells software externally to the industry. As well as blockchain, the group turns out a range of 3D printing, IoT and data science solutions.

Havara said his team had been working for more than two years with partners like MTU Maintenance to build the blockchain, a permissioned fork of ethereum.

“What we are calling it, kind of internally, is TRUEngine,” said Havera.

Having a blockchain will structure data that’s critical to this ecosystem in a single format and bring it to

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