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A decade after entering service, the first A380s are being stripped and sold for parts

Fresh doubts have been cast on the future of the world’s largest passenger plane after a German leasing company said it plans to break up two A380s that nobody wants. Singapore Airlines returned two 11-year-old “superjumbos” – among the very … Continue reading →

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Streamlined cars, designed to go fast, arrive at Portland Art Museum (photos)

Caravans of exotic cars will blast through Oregon this summer on their annual migration to places with good weather, dry roads and prestigious classic car shows. Some of these pieces of art on wheels will be hidden inside customized trailers … Continue reading →

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Everything you need to know about SAP’s new CRM product: C/4HANA

SAP has rebranded its customer relationship management (CRM) offering in an attempt to take on the established market leader, Salesforce. The new product, called C/4HANA, is actually a suite of CRM solutions for marketing, sales, customer service and commerce and … Continue reading →

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A decade after entering service, the first A380s are being stripped …

Fresh doubts have been cast on the future of the world’s largest passenger plane after a German leasing company said it plans to break up two A380s that nobody wants. Singapore Airlines returned two 11-year-old “superjumbos” – among the very … Continue reading →

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Hybrid Electric Airliners Will Cut Emissions—and Noise

Jump to Articles in this Section The Struggle to Make Diesel-Guzzling Cargo Ships Greener Methanol-Fueled Cars Could Drive Us Toward an Emissionless Future Editor’s note: On 31 May 2018 a Magnus eFusion electric airplane equipped with a Siemens propulsion system … Continue reading →

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How open source supports CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

The 27-kilometre-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) buried beneath the France-Switzerland border near Geneva is best known for helping to prove the existence of the Higgs’ Boson particle – otherwise known as the God particle – crucial to the Standard Model of particle … Continue reading →

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Boeing Business Jet (BBJ)

When Boeing and GE Aviation announced the Boeing Business Jet in 1996, they offered customers the opportunity to snatch a factory-fresh 737 airliner for $36 million and have it turned into a bespoke ultra-luxury private globetrotter. For those with sufficiently … Continue reading →

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