Monthly Archives: March 2019

Oregon teens are building airplanes on the weekend through Teen Flight (Video)

Over the course of 75 Saturdays, a group of teens will build an airplane at Hillsboro Airport. Not a remote-controlled model — an actual aircraft that will take each of them up in the air. Teen Flight is a program … Continue reading

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Can Hybrid Tech Lead to the First All Electric Airliner?

A hybrid system does this, in effect, by using a small, efficient fuel-burning “sustainer” engine for the cruise segment and by taking a surge of supplemental power from the batteries for takeoff and climb. Some of the output would be … Continue reading

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Boeing Brings 100 Years Of History To Its Fight To Restore Its Reputation

Boeing 737 Max jets are grounded at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix on March 14. Matt York/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt York/AP Boeing 737 Max jets are grounded at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix on March 14. … Continue reading

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Model planes, drones to fly at HobbyTown

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Boeing 737 MAX incidents spark safety approval questions

Jeff Wise: Right. So the context of all this happening is that Boeing gets a big chunk of its profits from the most popular airplane that it builds, the 737. It’s been building them since 1967. It’s a whole different … Continue reading

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NTSB: Pilot in fatal Harrison County plane crash not certified to fly that type of aircraft

The Texas Department of Public Safety identified the pilot as William Robert Kendrick, 51, of Huffman, His three passengers were identified as his Kendrick’s wife, Rebecca Marsh Kendrick, 51, of Huffman, daughter, Kaycee Ann Kendrick, of Farmer’s Branch, and her … Continue reading

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Airplane sensors manufactured by Rosemount company get fresh scrutiny after crashes

WASHINGTON — In 2014, Lufthansa Flight 1829 took off from Bilbao, Spain, and was ascending normally when the plane’s nose unexpectedly dropped. The plane — an Airbus A321 with 109 passengers on board — began to fall. The co-pilot tried … Continue reading

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