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Why The Boeing 787 Doesn't Have Winglets
All of the weight reductions and aero efficiency gains for the 787 improved fuel economy by 20% compared to the 767, its ...
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Bell is awarded Phase 2 funding for DARPA X-Plane
Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense ...
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DARPA greenlights Bell's rotor-folding X-plane
Bell's revolutionary X-plane rotorcraft has received the green light to progress to the building and testing of a ...
Doomed Air India flight lost engine fuel mid-flight, cockpit chaos revealed in report
Cockpit recordings from the Air India crash reveal pilot confusion after fuel cutoff switches mysteriously flipped during ...
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Plane crash victims’ families want $243M from Mesa
Families of five people who died last year after a plane overshot a runway at Falcon Field Airport and collided with a car, ...
China Resurrects A Soviet Water-Skimming Plane Design In Secret
China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane.
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DOD ends bid to revive Soviet-style ekranoplan seaplane just as Chinese version appears
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to resurrect a secretive Soviet design for an aircraft that skims just ...