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Example: Deutsche Bahn, the German railway operator and global logistics provider, found that 50% of the replacement parts it requires to maintain its trains can be 3D-printed. By using 3D printing to fabricate replacement parts for its trains, Deutsche Bahn reduces its costly inventory of spare parts, currently worth €600 million, increases dependability, and brings flexibility to the railroad’s fleet planning by making it possible to operate trains, some of which are 50 years old, without long-term support from their original manufacturers.
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The Latest on Boeing’s 737 Max 8 model after a crash in Ethiopia (all times local):
11:00 p.m.
Singapore’s civil aviation authority says it has temporarily banned all Boeing 737 Max planes from entering and leaving the country.
It noted in a statement on Tuesday that there have been two fatal accidents involving the aircraft in less than five months. Sunday’s deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 killed all 157 people on board.
The authority said the suspension starting later Tuesday will be “reviewed as relevant safety information becomes available.”
The suspension will affect SilkAir, a regional carrier that’s wholly owned by Singapore Airlines. It has six Boeing 737 Max 8 planes.
The authority said that flights to Singapore by China Southern Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, Shandong Airlines and Thai Lion Air will also be affected.
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9:30 p.m.
Fiji Airways says it will continue flying its two Boeing 737 Max 8 planes to Pacific destinations.
Some airlines have grounded their Max 8 planes after an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner crashed on Sunday, killing 157 people. Another Max 8 plane crashed in Indonesia last year.
Fiji’s national carrier said in a statement Tuesday it’s following the situation closely and has full confidence in the airworthiness of its fleet. The airline says it mainly uses the MAX 8 planes on routes connecting Fiji, Australia and New Zealand.
New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority said Fiji Airways was the only carrier landing MAX 8 planes in New Zealand and it could continue doing so.
In the United States, Transportation
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By Mike Seely
New York Times News Service
SEATTLE — Just south of Seattle’s Boeing Field and the Museum of Flight sits another shrine to aviation, Randy’s Restaurant. model airplanes are suspended from the 24-hour diner’s ceiling, with flight manuals and various dog-eared aerospace tomes strewn about its candy-colored booths.
Given its proximity to a major outpost of the Boeing Co., Randy’s has served more than its fair share of chicken-fried steak and brick-shaped hash browns to Boeing employees and their families, among them Ron Russell.
Russell’s son works at Boeing’s aircraft assembly plant in the city of Everett, Washington, where he used to install doors on 747s. His mother also worked for Boeing. He doesn’t have to think back too far to remember 1971, when a global economic slowdown and skyrocketing oil prices prompted the company to lay off more than half its workforce, sending Seattle into a tailspin.
Now, as the company grapples with a pair of fatal crashes involving its most popular airplane, the 737 Max, Russell points to Boeing’s record of resilience as proof that it will be able to overcome the latest troubles.
Will its engineers be able to design a solution to the technical conundrum that threatens the company’s best-selling jet ever, which has been grounded worldwide?
GLENDALE, Ariz. — It’s a plane lovers paradise! This week, you can get your hands on some historic aviation memorabilia at a one-of-a-kind auction in Glendale. It’s happening at EJ’s Auction and Appraisal off of 59th Avenue and Bell Road.
And it’s all part of a collection an Arizona pilot collected over several decades. Owner and auctioneer Erik Hoyer says they have several hundred pieces of rare and historic items going up for auction on Friday at 6 p.m.
The rare items are part of a massive collection that belonged to the late Captain William B. White of Prescott Valley. He also collected toy trucks, antique stock certificates, vintage photos of fashion models among other things.
Captain White was a former commercial airline pilot who also served for nine years in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Luke Air Force Base. He grew up poor, never knowing his father, but his childhood stamp collection gave him some joy during troubled times.
Turns out, he spent his life collecting many different antique and vintage items. Eventually, he had to store what he couldn’t fit into his two-story home into several storage units.
His collection includes the following:
EJ’s Auction and Appraisal
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“The first officer called out ‘stab trim cutout’ two times,” the report says. “Captain agreed and first officer confirmed stab trim cutout.”
Although that move disabled MCAS, it also forced the crew to control the stabilizers manually with wheels at their feet — a physically difficult task on a plane moving at high speed. A little under four minutes after takeoff, the first officer said the manual method “is not working.”
Soon after, the black box data indicates, the crew turned electricity back on and tried two more times to move the stabilizers by hitting the switches. But once they turned the electricity back on, MCAS engaged again, putting the plane into a dive from which it would not recover.
The crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10 followed the unrecoverable nose-dive almost five months earlier of another jet of the same model, a Boeing 737 Max 8, in Indonesia. Indonesian investigators have implicated MCAS in that disaster, in which the plane’s computer system appeared to override pilot directions based on faulty data.
[Here’s what you need to know about the deadly Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes, and what Boeing has been doing since.]
“These guys are executing the checklist,” Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for the American Airlines pilot union, said of the Ethiopian pilots after reviewing the report. “They were identifying the problem and
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/world/asia/ethiopia-crash-boeing.html
After tweeting quotes from Fox News guests Tuesday morning about climate change and U.S.-Israel relations, President Trump settled on a topic where he considers himself an expert and spoke in his own voice.
“Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT,” he said Tuesday on Twitter. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Albert Einstein to be my pilot. I want great flying professionals that are allowed to easily and quickly take control of a plane!”
The comments, following the deadly crash on Sunday of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner, are the latest example of Trump’s lifelong fascination with — and self-professed mastery of — all things air travel.
They also give a hint about where Trump might stand as the U.S. government faces pressure to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane, which has been involved in two similar crashes in five months. France, Great Britain, China, Singapore and other countries have already suspended operations of the late-model plane, which uses some of the new technology that Trump seems to dislike.
Trump, who started an airline company that failed and outfitted his personal plane with gold seat belts, has taken a particular interest in the world of aircraft since his election in 2016.
Shortly before taking office, Trump threatened
