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  787's Northern Exposure

  Posted by Guy Norris 5:41 PM on Feb 17, 2011

  Two Boeing 787s are experiencing life in northern climes, with ZA002 set for a return to the North Pole and ZA003 heading home to Seattle after its brief, but extremely cold, sojou... Read More >>

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  Designing a Powered-Lift Jetliner

  Posted by Graham Warwick 5:59 PM on Feb 04, 2011

  How easy is it to design a 737-sized jetliner that can land on a runway more suited to a turboprop - or a Cessna? Georgia Tech reserach Institute (GTRI) provides some insight in th... Read More >>

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  Short and Fast - Can STOL Jetliners be Practical?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 8:09 PM on Nov 04, 2010

  Looking ahead at traffic densities projected within the next 20 years or so, there is interest on both sides of the Atlantic in the potential for "metroplex" operations - the abili... Read More >>

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  Remembering Delta Flight 191

  Posted by Guy Norris 5:12 PM on Jul 30, 2010

  August 2 marks the 25th anniversary of the crash of Delta 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, at Dallas Fort Worth. The accident claimed the lives of 164 people, including one person o... Read More >>

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  Blended Wing Body Passes Low-Speed Test

  Posted by Graham Warwick 3:17 PM on Apr 07, 2010

  NASA has completed Phase 1 flight tests of Boeing's X-48B, the subscale unmanned blended wing body (BWB) demonstrator, proving that the tailless flying-wing aircraft can be control... Read More >>

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  Want to Fly STOL or VTOL? Think NextGen

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:18 PM on Mar 10, 2010

  Ever wondered why commercial aircraft all look and perform pretty much the same? The reason, in part, is because the air traffic control system we have relied on for decades doesn'... Read More >>

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  Area Rule to Winglets - Whitcomb's Unmatched Legacy

  Posted by Graham Warwick 11:30 AM on Oct 16, 2009

  Next time you are on an airliner - or, if you are fortunate, in your business jet - take a look out of the window at those upswept wingtips and tip your hat to the memory of Richar... Read More >>

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  Video: Who Says Airliners Need to be Boring?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 6:10 PM on Sep 03, 2009

  I was looking around for something to illustrate a story for Aviation Week & Space Technology on NASA's new Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) program, which it hopes t... Read More >>

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  Classic Jetliners - and bird strikes

  Posted by Guy Norris 3:33 AM on Jul 28, 2009

  With few chances to observe an airborne science mission first hand, and perhaps even fewer opportunities these days to travel on a DC-8, I jumped at a recent invitation to fly on N... Read More >>

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  "Classic" 747s

  Posted by Guy Norris 1:07 AM on Nov 07, 2008

  On a recent visit to Edwards AFB I had a good opportunity to photograph up-close NASA’s stalwart pair of Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA). The agency’s first a... Read More >>

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