January 2012
Video: Tour Trailer of a GE Oil & Gas...
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Norwegian Air Shuttle places largest ever Boeing...
Olso based, Norwegian Air Shuttle, one of the largest operators of the Boeing 737, has given the US airframer its first European order for the new 737 MAX airplane. Norwegian and Boeing have announced a firm order for 100 fuel-efficient 737 MAX airplanes and 22 Next-Generation 737-800s. The total order is valued at $11.4 billion at list prices and represents the largest-ever Boeing order...
FlightAware > All Nippon Airways The first 787...
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Video on the news today: Amazing Crosswind...
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Video: All the Awesome Things You Can Long Press...
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More A380 wing cracks found: sources
A380 … cracks found in the wings. Photo: Reuters Engineers inspecting Airbus A380 aircraft for cracks on a part inside the wings have found similar flaws on at least one aircraft, industry sources said on Tuesday. European safety authorities ordered urgent inspections on just under a third of the superjumbo fleet last week after two types of cracks were discovered on...
Video: Actual ILS CAT IIIB autoland and low vis...
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Exelent and Artistic Video: Just fly - YouTube
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Video: 2012 GM Advanced Tech Window - YouTube
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Ready or Not, You're Getting Facebook Timeline
via mashable.com Facebook announced in a blog post Tuesday that Timeline will be coming to all users in the next few weeks. According to a Facebook blog post Tuesday — or rather, an update to the post published when Timeline became available to all users — you will have seven days to preview your Timeline and hide content you don’t want out in the open. Facebook says you’ll receive a...
Virgin America airlines honors Steve Jobs with...
via intomobile.com Virgin America tried to do a cool thing when the company named an airplane “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” The name was a tribute to Steve Jobs who used the quote in his renowned 2005 Stanford University commencement speech. It’s a nice gesture, but, unfortunately, it’s not 100% correct. You see, that quote, “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” is attributed to Jobs, but he was not the...
NASA Picture- Cal Poly Amelia Model
via nasa.gov In January 2011, researchers from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif. tested a future aircraft concept model. The model, called AMELIA (Advanced Model for Extreme Lift and Improved Aeroacoustics), has a 10-foot wing span and is 1/13th scale. It was tested in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex. AMELIA was designed as a 100-passenger...
Company to paint Dreamliner airplanes at Meacham...
via star-telegram.com Leading Edge Aviation Services’ new plant at Fort Worth Meacham Airport is gearing up to handle all the painting on new 787 Dreamliner airplanes that Boeing builds in South Carolina. Boeing’s South Carolina factory is producing 30 percent of the planes; its factory in Everett, Wash., is building the rest. At one time last year, Leading Edge indicated...
Boeing Video: Sharks' teeth add bite to Boeing...
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BBC News - Megaupload file-sharing site shut down
via bbc.co.uk Megaupload, one of the internet’s largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US. The site’s founders have been charged with violating piracy laws. Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. The firm says it was diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material. In...
Business & Technology | Boeing blocked from...
Under a mandate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Boeing’s new 747-8 Intercontinental passenger jet will not be allowed to carry fuel in its tail until engineers can come up with a fix for a potential wing-vibration problem, Boeing said Thursday. Boeing spokesman Jim Proulx said engineers are working toward designing, certifying and implementing a fix to the...
Video: LAX - Twilight Traffic - YouTube
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Boeing Video: Delivering a more environmentally...
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Boozy-party pilot fails to regain job - Employment...
Expand Photo / Thinkstock A pilot sacked after an investigation into a booze- and drug-fuelled party at his Christchurch flat has lost a long-running fight to win back his job. The pilot, known only as Mr A, was fired by Pacific Blue in May 2010 after a series of investigations into alcohol-related events during his 21 months at the airline. In a ruling...
Video: Aeropuerto de la Ciudad de México AICM -...
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Video: The Evolution of EVOLVE: The New Southwest...
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How to Book a $1700 Vacation for $700 by...
No matter how good you are at rolling the dice on airplane tickets, vacations are an expensive undertaking. Sure, with careful planning, saving, and budgeting, you may eventually make your way to the beaches of Hawaii and smell the scent of 1,000 pounds of suntan lotion. Or, if you don’t feel like spending every cent you can scrape together, you take a volunteer vacation now,...
Video: For Airlines, Fourth Quarter Could Be...
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BBC News - Sopa and Pipa protests not over, says...
After a 24-hour blackout, Wikipedia has returned to full working order but declared: “We’re not done yet.” The site had blocked its content for 24 hours in protest at proposed anti-piracy legislation in the US. The encyclopaedia said the site had been viewed 162 million times, with eight million people following instructions to contact politicians. The protest led to...
Fun Pic: This is the level of stupidity i have to...
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Video: The Day The LOLcats Died - SOPA PIPA...
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Technolog - What an Internet protest looks like
By Rosa Golijan
WIRED
Content on the WIRED Magazine website was blacked out in protest of controversial anti-piracy legislation on Jan. 18.
Many individuals and organizations cranked up efforts to protest controversial anti-piracy measures on Wednesday. These folks took to the Internet and tried every trick in the book in order to raise awareness, provide educational materials, and put...
Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Receive Aviation's...
DENVER, Jan. 17, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Few aircraft since the Wright Flyer have truly become an “Aircraft of Legend.” Like the DC-3, the technological advancements of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are expected to profoundly impact commercial aviation. The Living Legends of Aviation have chosen the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to receive the “Aircraft of...
Use It Better: The Worst Tech Predictions of All...
via scientificamerican.com In my Scientific American column this month, I pondered why it’s so hard to predict the future of technology. It sometimes seems as though it’s not even worth the effort; inevitably you wind up looking like an idiot. Especially if the gist of your prediction is that something won’t happen or isn’t possible. You wind up with enough egg on your...
Video: SOPA - Joe Sestak refutes NBC Universal's...
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Animated GIF: TheOatmeal.com blacked out in...
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Who is Opposing SOPA get the complete list here...
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How Can I Beat My App Addiction and Clean Up My...
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Dear Lifehacker, I have too many apps on my smartphone and I can never find what I’m looking for. I know I can just delete them, but I don’t want to get rid of an app I might use. How can I reduce the number of apps on my phone and keep them organized without getting rid of something important?
Sincerely, App Addicted
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Microsoft release the Windows 8 Hardware...
via windows8update.com Certified Devices in Systems A Windows Certified System is composed of Windows certified components. These internal devices are certified before system integration, leaving the focus of system testing on those features which require the coordination of multiple components or configuration settings unique to the system under test. At the system certification level, if...
Video: Documental: Concorde - 1/5 - History,...
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Five Best Wallpaper Sites
via lifehacker.com Personalizing your desktop starts with customizing your wallpaper. Finding good wallpapers for your desktop however, isn’t difficult, but everyone has an opinion about which sites are the best to visit for the best selection of wallpapers for high-resolution displays, multiple screens, or the best imagery. Here are five of the best wallpaper resources, based on your...
A Look at ANA’s New Boeing 787 Dreamliner Livery...
All Nippon Airways (ANA) recently announced an updated livery for the Boeing 787s and finally they are being seen out in the wild. ANA’s third 787 (registered JA805A) was officially delivered on December 30th, but it was not flown to Japan until January 4, 2012. On January 14th, JA805A was used on the 787′s first regularly scheduled international flight from Haneda (HND) to Beijing (PEK)....
6 Things About Twitter that Make Me Mad!
I love Twitter, I really do; I love how it connects you to people from all over the world, people who would never ever get the chance to meet otherwise! I also love how it helps you promote different products, services and people while having to stick to a certain number of characters which, naturally, teaches you how to be creative in a unique manner. The Angry Twitter Bird :) However,...
Airbus, Boeing Top 1000 Deliveries in 2011,...
via thisdaylive.com The world’s dominant plane makers scored new orders as Airbus put the finishing touches to a record 2011, cruising peacefully for now above debt turmoil and new airline cutbacks in Europe. Airbus and its US rival Boeing unveiled more than 70 orders for new aircraft worth USD$7.5 billion as industry insiders confirmed the trans-Atlantic rivals had delivered a combined...
Airbus, Boeing Top 1000 Deliveries in 2011,...
via thisdaylive.com The world’s dominant plane makers scored new orders as Airbus put the finishing touches to a record 2011, cruising peacefully for now above debt turmoil and new airline cutbacks in Europe. Airbus and its US rival Boeing unveiled more than 70 orders for new aircraft worth USD$7.5 billion as industry insiders confirmed the trans-Atlantic rivals had delivered a combined...
TSA Air Marshal Arrested in Mugging of Boston...
via wired.com What was a TSA air marshal doing at an Occupy camp at 3:40 on a Saturday morning, just an hour before protestors were evicted by Boston police? Stealing the iPhone of one of the camp’s prominent voices, then slapping her, apparently. TSA air marshal Adam Marshall was arrested by the Boston police department at 3:50 a.m. on Dec. 10 after he allegedly argued with members of...
TSA Air Marshal Arrested in Mugging of Boston...
via wired.com What was a TSA air marshal doing at an Occupy camp at 3:40 on a Saturday morning, just an hour before protestors were evicted by Boston police? Stealing the iPhone of one of the camp’s prominent voices, then slapping her, apparently. TSA air marshal Adam Marshall was arrested by the Boston police department at 3:50 a.m. on Dec. 10 after he allegedly argued with members of...
Google: Sorry, Twitter, We Don't Index the @...
If you haven’t noticed that Google pages are increasingly becoming a part of Google search results, you may have noticed Google and Twitter’s increasingly public spat about it. Twitter argues that by promoting Google in search results, Google isn’t providing the most relevant social results. Meanwhile, Google has implied it would promote more pages from Twitter if it had adequate permission...
Boeing hits production target for 737s -...
Boeing Co. said Tuesday that it hit its target of producing 35 of its 737-model aircraft in a month and is preparing to further speed up the assembly line in the next two years. The company had been producing 31.5 of the planes per month, said spokeswoman Kristi Moen. Boeing said the first plane built at the new rate rolled out of the factory in Renton, Wash., on Tuesday. It was ordered by...
Southwest Airlines says it’s cooperating as...
DALLAS — Southwest Airlines says it’s cooperating with federal officials investigating a close call on a runway in Chicago last month. A Southwest plane that had just landed at Midway Airport was preparing to cross a runway when the co-pilot yelled at the pilot to stop to avoid a smaller jet that was taking off. Federal officials say air traffic controllers didn’t cancel the smaller jet’s...
Five Signs You Might Be a Tech Addict ~...
Many tech enthusiasts have a habit of buying every new gadget or app on the market — even if they can’t afford it, don’t need it, or won’t use it. Many of these purchases tend to be impulsive and based on marketing hype, a sales pitch, or a well-designed advertisement. While average consumers scoff at many of these products themselves, tech addicts continue to not only stand in line for some of...