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September 10, 2007
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Salon.com
May 30, 2002
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Crash culture Who is to blame when a 22-year-old 747 falls from the sky? |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
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IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
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Unsafe At Any Airspeed? Is it safe to use cellphones on airplanes? The U.S. FCC thinks it may be. But here is proof that cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk to maintaining proper airline instrumentation than you think. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2011
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When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006 |
Plane Talk About Cellphones With the first U.S. auction for radio spectrum for consumer broadband use while in the air on the horizon, the FCC's overall move in the direction of relaxing the ban on the use of personal electronics during flight has made some folks happy -- and many others worried. |
The Motley Fool
April 10, 2008
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Americans Lose Their Way American Airlines cancels thousands of flights to fix a wiring problem. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2006
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Jumbo Trouble The Airbus A380 was supposed to be the future of aviation. Will it ever get off the ground? |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
Inc.
November 2003
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Flight Club Forget the company car. Getting around is faster -- and less expensive than you may think -- in a private plane. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2008
Thomas Hayden |
10 Ways to Fix Air Travel Flying may be incredibly safe, but it's also unreliable, inefficient and stressful. Here's how to make the experience aloft easier on us and the planet. |
Popular Mechanics
August 27, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
15 Brilliant, Bad and Downright Strange Plans to Save Airlines Possible ideas to make plane trips more profitable and efficient. |
Salon.com
March 8, 2002
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How safe is your airplane? After the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, some pilots requested that all Airbus A300 planes be grounded. But they're still aloft... |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Tekla S. Perry |
Airlines: Got Fuel? Airlines are now putting the minimum amount of fuel in planes necessary to reach their destination, but are they underestimating the amount they need? |
This Old House
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Shocking Truths The top 10 wiring problems and what to do about them |
National Defense
November 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Will Capitol Hill Keep Funding Missile Defense for Airliners? An effort to protect commercial aircraft against shoulder-fired missiles will face a critical moment in January, when Congress is scheduled to vote on whether to continue funding development of the system. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
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The Tech That Makes New Airplanes and Runways Safer The plane, the runway, the airport, the technology are all examined here |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
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Home Toys
April 2004 |
Arc-Fault Circuit Interrupters The National Electrical Code requires that AFCIs be used to protect circuits in residential bedrooms for all new construction. The same protection can be gained in older homes by having them installed on some, or all, of your home's circuits. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
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Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Christopher Palmeri |
Snarl In The Sky Private jet traffic is creating commercial flight delays, safety concerns, and calls for small planes to pay more into the system. |
The Motley Fool
July 8, 2011
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Can American Airlines Afford $15 Billion Worth of New Planes? American Airlines parent AMR Corp looks to spend close to $15 billion in adding 250 new aircraft to its fleet. |
National Defense
January 2015
Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Challenged to Maintain Decades-Old Aircraft The U.S. military operates fleets of Cold War-era aircraft that will not be replaced any time soon. For the Pentagon, this creates daunting challenges, experts warn. Airplanes will have to fly much longer than planned and, at a time of tight budgets, the cost of maintaining aging equipment is projected to soar. |
Salon.com
July 28, 2000
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Out of the Blue Lies in the sky: An inside look at United Airlines' abysmal service. |
Salon.com
September 20, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot What happens when you drop dry ice into an airplane toilet? And are regional pilots just rejects from the big airlines? |
InternetNews
December 15, 2004
Roy Mark |
FCC Considers Airline Broadband Connections Airline passenger use of cell phones and broadband Internet connections took a small step toward reality today when the Federal Communications Commission rolled out several new proposals for ground-to-air communications. |
The Motley Fool
May 1, 2006
Brian Gorman |
Boeing's Parts Play The aerospace giant's purchase makes good sense in light of the dynamics in global aircraft markets. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
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How Safe Are the Chartered Skies? It may seem as if more rented planes are crashing, but in fact they've gotten safer. An expert tells how to choose a charter aircraft outfit. |
Popular Mechanics
December 28, 2009
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The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics. |
Wired
Andrew Blum |
Key to Eliminating U.S. Flight Delays? Redesign the Sky Over New York City More than 2 million flights pass over the city every year, most traveling to and from the metropolitan area's three busiest airports: John F. Kennedy, Newark, and LaGuardia. |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2007 |
Readers' Runway Rage The response to a story on the demise of efficient and civilized air travel was voluminous and vehement. |
Salon.com
August 9, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot When airplanes collide, who is responsible? Are we doing enough to prevent such disasters? |
U.S. CPSC
May 1, 2003 |
May Is National Electrical Safety Month Good news for homeowners -- aluminum wiring fix still available |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
JetBlue's New Look JetBlue expands its service with new 100-seater planes. The airline, with debt to equity at a jaw-dropping 252%, has little wiggle room to attract customers with the new planes. |
Popular Mechanics
April 9, 2008
Barbara S. Peterson |
Why U.S. Airlines Still Won't Join the Mobile Mile-High Club Airline passengers abroad could soon find themselves sitting in chatter class. In the past two weeks, regulatory authorities and individual airlines in Europe have taken steps to allow in-flight cellphone use -- not that you'll be able to phone home while flying over the United States anytime soon. |
Popular Mechanics
September 4, 2008
Barbara S. Peterson |
McCain and Palin Chart Separate Course From Obama on Aviation From jump starting an air traffic control bill to dealing with job cuts due to higher fuel costs, experts break down how Obama and McCain would try to modernize the FAA and get families home for the holidays on time. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 31, 2011
Julia Hanna |
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays Airlines and the FAA don't like flight delays any more than passengers, but what's to be done? Researchers propose a "fairness" system that could save travelers time and service providers millions of dollars annually. |
Salon.com
November 13, 2001
Damien Cave |
"It couldn't have come at a worse time" Former Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner explains how the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 will affect the air travel industry... |
U.S. CPSC
November 3, 2004 |
Schneider Electric North American Division Recall of AFCIs An AFCI is an electrical circuit protection device (circuit breaker) that detects electrical arcs from cracked, broken or damaged electrical insulation and shuts off power to the circuit before the arcing leads to a fire. An electronic component failure inside the AFCIs can cause the devices to not detect an electrical arc. Although the AFCIs will function as regular circuit breakers, they may not detect an arc fault, posing a safety risk to consumers. |
Popular Mechanics
November 21, 2007 |
Inside the FAA's Plan for Cellphones to Fix Holiday Air Travel The Federal Aviation Administration recently awarded a contract to ITT Corporation to lay the groundwork for NextGen, an overhaul of the country's overloaded air traffic control system from aging radar towers to GPS. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Air Travel Survival Guide Nothing's worse than needing a vacation from your vacation after dealing with travel difficulties. With the right combination of luck and skill, however, you can navigate yourself into a winning trip no matter what happens. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2007
Stanley Holmes |
Danger In The Repair Shop FAA inspectors are warning about the risks of outsourcing airplane maintenance. |
Fast Company
April 2000
Amy Wilson |
Will These New Airlines Take Off? A roundup of four potential highfliers. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Superjumbo Plane Takes Flight Airbus' colossal A380 surpasses Boeing's 747 as the biggest plane. While demand for the plane might be high, airlines are cash-strapped, particularly those in the U.S., which have not ordered any of the planes. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2007
J.R. Wilson |
Manned and Unmanned Aircraft to Share Controlled and Commercial Airspace Governments, organizations, and industries throughout the world are trying to find ways of developing electronic and electro-optical technologies to enable unmanned aerial vehicles to operate together safely. |
Mother Jones
Jan/Feb 2002
Barry Yeoman & Bill Hogan |
Airline Insecurity Federal regulators have known for years that the nation's system of airport security was "seriously flawed." But the FAA repeatedly placed politics and profits above the public's safety... |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Embraer Thinks Small The Brazilian aerospace company is making a foray into tiny jets. |
BusinessWeek
May 8, 2006
Dean Foust |
AMR: Making Every Gallon Count American Airline's all-out fuel-efficiency drive may help put it back in the black. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2010
Rich Smith |
A Bonanza for Boeing Forget the 787. Boeing's 737 is the real growth story. |
