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The man who could have been the first on the moon is remembered in his Indiana hometown

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One CEO says he has ‘solved the elbow wars’ on passenger airplanes

The dreaded middle airplane seat is about to come with a silver lining. On 50 mystery passenger planes, set for delivery in 2020, middle seat passengers will get their own arm rest space, plus about two more inches of seat … Continue reading

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Service & Sacrifice: Vietnam veteran recounts surviving USS Forrestal disaster

PADUCAH, KY — July 29,1967. The aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was engaged in combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin off of the Vietnam coast. Jimmy Rudd shortly after joining the Navy. A massive fire broke out when jet fuel … Continue reading

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Parts are falling off Hong Kong Airlines planes, how worried should you be?

Published: 12:00pm, 31 May, 2019 Updated: 2:15pm, 31 May, 2019 Article source: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3012550/parts-are-dropping-hong-kong-airlines-planes-mid-air

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The air up there: CU team deploys multiple drones in tornado study

Smead Aerospace Professor Eric Frew explains the logistical challenges of the project with the wry smile of someone who has learned a great deal of patience over his years in the field on this and similar projects. “We call it … Continue reading

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Spanning Time: Before Lindbergh, another aviation pioneer made brief stop in Broome – Press & Sun

CLOSE Oh, those marvelous men and women in their flying machines.  A short time ago, I wrote about Lucky Lindy, Charles Lindbergh, landing in a farmer’s field in Choconut, Pennsylvania. There are still many in the area who remember being in … Continue reading

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Are cellphones a flight danger? They could be on some Boeing jets, FAA says

U.S. government officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passenger mobile phones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes. More than 1,300 jets registered in the … Continue reading

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