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Boeing to make 747 fuselage parts in Georgia as supplier pulls out

The slowed manufacturing rate for Boeing’s fading 747 jumbo jet has prompted a major supplier to cut its losses and exit the program. Boeing said Thursday it has agreed to take over the work of building 747-8 fuselage panels from … Continue reading →

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PHOTOS: Historic photos of Travel Air airplanes

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THE COSMIC PUPPETS

Extraterrestrials, Christian Science, and ventriloquist’s dummies are all welcome in the realm of DAVID LIEBE HART ‘, guid: ‘marker_f68b_6557’ }); // Overlay the infowindow (on demand) // Store the marker markers_f68b.push(marker); // If we need to work with an external … Continue reading →

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Electric Porsche — Mission E — Would Be Awesome… If Built

Cars Published on September 15th, 2015 by Zachary Shahan 24 September 15th, 2015 by Zachary Shahan  Originally published on EV Obsession: As I’ve written before, there are no “Tesla fighters” to date, and concept cars that will theoretically be built … Continue reading →

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Retired planes continue to benefit American Airlines fleet

Quick Facts:   Retired American Airlines planes are sent to New Mexico to be torn down Spare parts are refurbished and sent back to Tulsa The MD-80 planes will be phased out by the end of 2017   All this … Continue reading →

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Investigators in Las Vegas seek cause of plane’s engine fire

LAS VEGAS (AP) Jet engine parts found on the Las Vegas runway where a British Airways flight aborted takeoff as the engine burst into flames indicate a rare catastrophic failure, experts said Thursday as investigators released preliminary findings and began … Continue reading →

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Retired pilots fight to keep Missoula smokejumper plane in service

In the alphabet soup of airplane names, a BT-67 is not a DC-3. The plane the “Band of Brothers” jumped out of at D-Day was a C-47. Seventy years and lots of civilian modifications later, James Bond brought a DC-3 … Continue reading →

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