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Flying on a Tablet PC
Robert Scoble finds a pilot creating flight plans on a Tablet PC… Looking around airport I find a FliteStar : Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
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Giant Airbus A380 plane raises chance of medical emergencies
I wouldn’t think its a big deal but interesting to see this article in New Scientist which discusses one unexpected aspect of the new A380. The large number of passengers also increases the probability that there will be a medical emergency on a flight. “The A380 ability to carry
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Air New Zealand - they say it'll be better in August, maybe
Air New Zealand are advertising how wonderful their soon to be re-fitted planes will be for long-haul flights. No problem with that but why are they doing it now! Although you can book these seats now all their current passengers are being told how wonderful it will be. Something to
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Have a nice day stalling 777's
This would be a fun job, as long as it did recover! The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Have a nice day at 730 mph Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann has taken a Boeing 777-200LR jetliner above 30,000 feet and let it stall, testing whether it can recover.. Via planenews.com
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The Cessna, The Sky ... and the Cartoonist at North Shore Aero Club
John Ewing has written a humorous story of his journey to become a pilot from novice to solo and illustrated it with wonderful cartoons. It also covers all the basic principles of flight. AVweb have a few chapters online and you can buy the book from John’s own website
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Fernando Alonso and the Airbus A380 Super-Jumbo...
Searching my feeds for Fernando Alonso found this article. I was expecting an F1 story but this Fernando Alonso, test pilot and engineer, will be looking after the Airbus A380 Super-Jumbo. Size does matter The biggest passenger plane ever is taking to the sky. John Carlin tells the inside story
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Airbus A380 takes off for maiden flight
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, is on its long-awaited maiden flight. Will this aircraft have the same impact on the aviation world as the Boeing 747? The 747 was a “bet the company” risk for Boeing that paid off and gave them dominance of the
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Boeing to use North Sails 3DL technology
RobiNZ CAD Blog: Boeing to use 3DL Sail technology to "spin" composite aircraft fuselages
Airbus 380: It is an Airvillage
I like the new name, Airvillage, Boris Johnson suggests is more accurate than Airbus when talking about the A380 in an article on his blog. Airbus 380: This is not a bus, or even a tram or a train or ship. It is an Airvillage. Already Richard Branson is planning
Randy's Boeing Blog
Randy Baseler, vice president of Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, has a new web journal. Not quite a what I’d call a Blog yet (no permalinks, comments or RSS feed) but looks like it will develop into one. Suggest Randy looks at Bob Lutz’s Fastlane Blog as a
South Korean airliner avoided "near hit"
145ft (44m) is rather too close when you are talking about aircraft separation... Link: ComPilots.com - Aviation Portal - South Korean airliner avoided mid-air collision. A South Korean Boeing 747 carrying hundreds of passengers came within 145 feet of hitting another jet...
Burt Rutan: Aviation pioneer
Background on Burt Rutan and SpaceShipOne from the BBC. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Burt Rutan: Aviation pioneer Scaled Composites Website