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Exhibit marks the Navy’s 100-year run from biplanes to supersonic, unmanned jets

Aubrey Cohen — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:42:51 +0000

On Nov. 14, civilian pilot Eugene Ely took off in a 50-horsepower Curtiss airplane from a wooden platform on the bow of the U.S.S. Birmingham cruiser. Two months later, he landed on the cruiser Pennsylvania, had lunch, and then took off again. That May 8, the Navy wrote up its first airplane requisitions. That leads [...]

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Zoom way in on a Boeing 737-900ER

Aubrey Cohen — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:23:26 +0000

For most people, this picture is as close as they’ll ever get to being able to walk around a commercial airliner. It’s a gigapixel image of a United Airlines Boeing 737-900ER, Boeing’s largest single-aisle airliner, stitched together from more than 20,000 high-resolution photographs. Users can zoom in to life-size detail around every part of the [...]

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Airlines stop boarding from the back

Aubrey Cohen — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:29:29 +0000

The traditional way of loading an airliner — back to front — is actually about the worst way to do it, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. According to an American Airlines study, The Journal reported: “Back to front slowed because only two people on average got to their seats at a time, and everyone [...]

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Boeing delivers first 737 with improved engines

Aubrey Cohen — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:30:45 +0000

Boeing delivered the first 737 with improved engines to China Southern Airlines last week, the plane maker announced Thursday. The new CFM56-7BE engine configuration is part of a package of airplane improvements that aim to cut fuel use by 2 percent. Boeing plans to incorporate other improvements into 2012. “We continue to review performance flight [...]

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Air China gets first Boeing 777-300ER

Aubrey Cohen — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:22:32 +0000

Air China this week got the first of 19 Boeing 777-300ERs on order, making it the first airline on the Chinese mainland to fly the aircraft, Boeing announced Thursday. “The introduction of this brand new aircraft is not only a milestone in the cooperation history between Boeing and Air China, but also an important symbol [...]

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Alaska Air reports fifth conescutive record profit

Aubrey Cohen — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:53:37 +0000

Seattle-based Alaska Air Group Thursday reported a record profit for the fifth quarter in a row. “I am pleased to report our fifth consecutive record quarterly adjusted profit, in spite of a nearly 50 percent rise in our economic fuel costs,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bill Ayer said in a news release. Passenger revenues [...]

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TSA making body scans less intimate

Editor — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:55:59 +0000

In a move to address privacy concerns, the Transportation Security Administration will eliminate passenger-specific images from its body scans, the agency announced Wednesday. More

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American Airlines buys Airbus, stings Boeing

Aubrey Cohen — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:42:57 +0000

American Airlines placed what it called the largest aircraft order in history Wednesday: 460 re-engined small airliners from Airbus and Boeing, which previously had been leaning toward replacing its 737, rather than outfitting it with new, more efficient engines. American now flies all Boeing jets, making the order a hit for the U.S. airplane maker, [...]

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Massive radar not leaving Seattle yet

Editor — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:37:54 +0000

The Boeing-built Sea-Based X-band Radar (pdf) is moving around in Seattle’s Elliott Bay, but it’s not leaving yet. The billion-dollar Missile Defense Agency radar is undergoing maintenance and upgrades at Vigor Shipyards, under a subcontract from Boeing. It’s moving to making room for a similarly massive Shell ice-breaking oil platform, the Kulluk, which will pull [...]

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‘Boeing should offer a 737 Neo, fast’

Editor — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:56:11 +0000

Boeing should ditch talk of replacing the 737 in favor of outfitting it with new, more-efficient engines, analyst Richard Aboulafia wrote Monday. Airbus’ orders and agreements for 700 re-engined A320neos at the Paris Airshow, pushing the A320neo total over 1,000, shows that what the airlines want is new engines now, said Aboulafia, vice president of [...]

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