Monthly Archives: March 2019

With Tesla as its model, MagniX revs up electric motors to revolutionize airplanes

MagniX CEO Roei Ganzarski shows off a drum-sized, 350-horsepower electric motor that will soon be hooked up to an airplane propeller at the company’s lab in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) REDMOND, Wash. — An electric-propulsion company called … Continue reading

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Could the 737 Max problems compel Southwest to change business strategies?

The Max amps up the Southwest model by extending the range the airline can fly its planes and by boosting efficiency. In its announcement of Southwest’s order of the new Max 7, Boeing said the plane is “part of Southwest’s … Continue reading

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Airlines ground Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes after Ethiopian air crash

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Federal Government Grounds All Boeing 737 Max 8 Jets As Investigation Continues

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The federal government is grounding all 737 MAX jetliners as an investigation continues into Sunday’s deadly crash in Ethiopia. It was the second crash involving the new Boeing model in five months. President Trump announced the order … Continue reading

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Correction: Cargo Plane Crash story

DALLAS — In a story March 12 about a cargo plane crash in Texas, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a plane’s stick shaker signals an imminent engine stall. A stick shaker warns of an impending stall from a loss … Continue reading

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Before Trump’s order grounding Boeing Max 8, planes were still being flown out of BWI

UPDATE: President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued an “emergency order” grounding all Boeing Max 8 airplanes in the U.S., after Canada joined much of the rest of the world in ordering the jetliners out of the air during the investigation … Continue reading

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Boeing pauses deliveries of 737 Max planes

Boeing Thursday confirmed it’s pausing deliveries of its 737 Max model planes to customers after the US. issued an emergency order grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft. after 157 people died in a crash Sunday in … Continue reading

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