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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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Space Drone’X-37B to Blast Off

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Top Secret X-37B   The TOP secret US Air Force space-plane called X-37B will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida today on a classified military mission. The pilotless military space vehicle, a quarter the size of a NASA shuttle, is officially called a test vehicle. Amazingly this is the X-37B's fourth mission. US Air Force Drone Space-Plane called X-37B The space drone is designed to orbit the earth and its longest flight has lasted nearly two years. The craft is unmanned and operated robotically. Previous speculation over X-37B's purpose is that it is used by America to spy on China. While the Pentagon refuses to discuss its missions, Spaceflight magazine has in the past said snooping on the Asian powerhouse was its most likely purpose. Editor Dr David Baker said: "Space-to-space surveillance is a whole new ball game made possible by a finessed group of sensors and sensor suites, which we think the X-37B may be using to maintain a close watch on Chi...
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Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
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✈ Mysterious Space Weapons X-37B Top Secret Spy Plane ✈

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"There is no one on the ground with a joystick flying it," Lt. Col. Troy Giese, X-37B program manager in the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, said before the first X-37B mission blasted off last year. The Air Force's X-37B robotic space plane sits on the runway after landing at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on June 16. The plane was in orbit for more than 15 months on a classified mission. (Photo: Boeing) The X-37B looks like NASA's now-retired space shuttle, only much smaller. The vehicle measures just 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 15 feet (4.5 m) wide, with a payload bay about the size of a pickup truck bed. For comparison, two entire X-37Bs could fit inside the payload bay of a space shuttle. It is designed to launch vertically inside the nose cone of a rocket, stay in orbit for months at a time, and then land horizontally on a runway like a space shuttle. But unlike NASA's shuttles, the X-37B space plane does everything autonomously...
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