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Boeing 737 MAX Gets New Orders

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Boeing easily beat rival Airbus in orders for new planes last month, but Chicago-based Boeing trailed its European rival in delivering planes to airline customers. Boeing said that it took orders for 31 planes in July while 17 others were canceled, resulting in a net gain of 14. That compared with two orders for Airbus. It was Boeing’s sixth straight month of positive net orders after seeing cancellations exceed orders for most of 2020. Boeing has reported 270 net orders so far in 2021. Brazil’s Gol ordered nine 737 Max jets last month and Dallas-based Southwest Airlines ordered six. Boeing delivered 28 planes in July, including nine 737 Max jets sent to Irish airline Ryanair. That fell short of Airbus, which delivered 47 planes last month. For the year, Boeing has delivered 184 planes, more than all of 2020. This despite the halt in shipping its 787 jet because of production flaws in the fuselage and nose. Last month, the company said it will cut production of 787s. Deliveries are cri...
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Ukraine Su-25 Fighter Jet RTB Without Missiles

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The Malaysia Ukraine Crash   Ukraine SU-25 Fighter Return To Base with Missing Missiles There have been many questions surrounding the Malaysia Crash in July 2014, and the blame have been on everyone yet the Ukraine Government still have refused to release Radar Data. But now some of the people behind it have started to come out talking. An airbase employee, who claims to be an eyewitness, said on July 17 that three Ukrainian combat jets took off, and that one of them, an Su-25 fighter Jet, was carrying air-to-air missiles. “After a while only one of the jets (of the three) returned, it was the fighter jet which had had those missiles. But it returned without the missiles. The Su-25 pilot was very frightened,” the man said. The employee stressed that only the returned Su-25 had been equipped with air-to-air missiles, and said he was sure it was not air-to-ground missiles. The airbase worker said he remembered the Su-25 pilot saying “the wrong plane” and "the plane was ...
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Super Drone MQ-4C Triton Bigger Than a 737

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MQ-4C Triton Drone   This is the Huge Unmanned Navy Drone MQ-4C Triton that is bigger than a Boeing 737, and it now takes to the skies for flight across America. Scroll down for the transcontinental flight video. The new Super Drone is supposed to be used in fleet operations in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, as well as the Atlantic. It is part of the Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance program. The airliner-sized Super Navy surveillance drone made it's first transcontinental flight on Wednesday night, when it flew 11 hours across the United States from Southern California crossing the Gulf of Mexico and Florida before landing Thursday morning at a Navy base in Maryland. The unmanned super drone flew above 50,000 feet (above 15 km) to avoid commercial air traffic and  after 11 hours it had covered 3,290 miles and landed safely in Maryland. The massive MQ-4C landing on Thursday morning in Maryland after flying overnight from California In comparisson the ...
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Location: Maryland, USA
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Chinese SU-27 Barrel Roll Over US Navy Recon Plane

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Chinese SU-27   It was this Monday Aug 18, 2014 that an Chinese SU-27 Interceptor Fighter Jet did a barrel roll "very, very close" over an American Navy P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft in International Airspace Near Japan about 135 miles east of China's Hainan Island. The rather reckless maneuver by the Chinese Su-27 pilot was to show that the SU-27 fighter jet was armed with missiles. Chinese Su-27M Interceptor Jet Fighter Armed Missiles The US has lodged a formal protest with Beijing after the Chinese fighter jet conducted the barrel roll over the American Navy plane this week, the Pentagon has said. Rear Admiral John Kirby said the Chinese plane exposed its undercarriage to show that it was armed to the P-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft during the Monday's incident in international airspace near Japan. He said the Chinese aircraft came within 30ft (9 metres) of the American plane, while the wing tips of the two aircraft were just 20ft apart. Ad...
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2014 WAR Games Jamming ATC Radars

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50 planes temporarily disappeared   Dozens of planes from air-traffic control screens in the heart of Europe have mysteriously disappeared for a number of days with Electronic military exercises to blame for the incident, Slovak authorities have said. NATO conducting Electronic military war game exercises disrupting jamming air-traffic control radar About 50 planes temporarily disappeared from radars in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia between June 5 and June 10, Austria's flight safety monitor said. German and Czech air traffic control also reported brief disappearances. Slovakia blamed the outages on planned military exercises. "The disappearance of objects on radar screens was connected with a planned military exercise which took place in various parts of Europe...whose goal was the interruption of radio communication frequencies," the Slovak air traffic services said in a statement. "This activity also caused the temporary disappe...
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B-2 Stealth Bombers Land at RAF Fairford UK ✈

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With the heightened tensions in Europe put on by the Ukraine crisis two B-2 Spirit Bombers with radio callsigns "Death 11" and "Death 12" have arrived at RAF Fairford UK from the Whiteman Air Force Base in USA. The deployment is said to be for a short time. B-2 Strategic Stealth Bomber landing at RAF Faiford UK The U.S Air Force have selected three bases outisde the U.S for the B-2 Strategic Bombers operations. The RAF Fairford base in the UK, Diego Garcia and Andersen AFB at Guam. With these deployments of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers overseas being quite unusual the motives are very clear. B-2 Stealth bombers don’t move from the Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri too often, as they are trained to conduct very long round-trip missions from their homebase in CONUS (short for Continental U.S.). Recent training missions have been extended nuclear deterrence sorties in the Korean Peninsula, as well as during real conflicts in the Libya Air War in 2011. Go...
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Location: Fairford, RAF Fairford Main Gate (NW-bound), Fairford, Gloucestershire GL7, Storbritannien
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✈ New Airbus A380-800 Superjumbo ✈

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Brief Description: The Airbus A380 Superjumbo is a ultraefficient double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, an EADS subsidiary. Currently the largest passenger airliner in the world, superseding the Boeing 747 that was first introduced in 1969, and which was the largest and most expensive aircraft in the world until the introduction of the Airbus A380 in 2007. But it will still have a shorter fuselage than the Airbus A340-600 which is Airbus' next biggest passenger aeroplane. The A380 is the first commercial airliner to have a central wing box made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic. It is also the first to have a smoothly contoured wing cross section. The wings of other commercial airliners are partitioned span-wise into sections. This flowing, continuous cross section optimises aerodynamic efficiency. The cabin has features to reduce traveller fatigue such as a quieter interior and have a higher pressurisation than prev...
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[Caught On Video] Meteorite Hurtles Past Norwegian Skydiver

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One summer day in 2012, Anders Helstrup and several other members of the Oslo Parachute Club jumped from a small plane that had taken off from Østre Æra Airport in Hedmark. Anders was wearing his wingsuit with two GoPro HERO3 cameras fixed to his helmet. After he had released his parachute something never before caught on camera happened. On the way down he realised something strange was happening. Meteorite Hurtles Past Norwegian Skydiver GoPro Hero “I got the feeling that there was something, but I didn’t register what was happening,” After landing Anders looked at the film from the two GoPro HERO3 cameras from the jump, which then clearly showed that something did happen. Something that looks like a stone hurtles past Anders, missing him by only a few metres. “When we stopped the GoPro film, we could clearly see something that looked like a stone. At first it crossed my mind that it had been packed into a parachute, but it’s simply too big for that.” Search fo...
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Amazing EU Air Traffic Simulation

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Amazing European Air Traffic Simulation in 24 Hour Period This is an amazing data visualization that was created from real flight data taken from a day in July 2013. It highlights the intensity of the air traffic operation in Europe. An operation which runs 24x7 and 365 days a year. NATS and the UK are at the heart of the operation. The video simulation show Heathrow as the busiest international airport in Europe, and Gatwick as the busiest single runway airport in the word, we play a key role in ensuring air traffic under our control in European airspace is as safe and efficient as it can be.
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Location: London-Heathrow flygplats (LHR), Terminal 1, Greater London, Storlondon TW6 1AP, Storbritannien
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