Ice-phobic paint, projection lighting that shows gate information or video images of a destination on the walls inside a jet and hybrid electric propulsion are just a few of Boeing’s long-term projects. Read the full article here. (www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/us-business/boeing-to-test-non-stick-paint-to-keep-jets-from-icing/article30799255)
After several recent air disasters that pointed out the shortcomings of current systems for tracking passenger jets, Airbus is planning to install new cloud-based flight recorders that could transmit data in real time. The new technology would replace the so-called black boxes that sometimes fall short in a crisis. Read the article in its entirety here .
Best aviation video to date. Enjoy!
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We need more women in all areas of aviation. Meet the woman who owns her own airline!
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No surprise that the CIA and every other agency out there is very interested in what you post on social media. “When you have private companies deciding which algorithms get you a so-called threat score, or make you a person of interest, there's obviously room for targeting people". Yes there is. So remember that if you put it out there, it's out there. Forever. For good, bad or ugly.
Germany boasts a highly skilled industrial labor force, thanks in large part to a system of vocational training that the U.S. abandoned.
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"We gave most of it up. Other countries didn’t. And now they dominate advanced manufacturing and other tech fields, in part because their skilled labor forces are the envy of the world." Career and technical education is dinosaur-like in the US, jobs are scarce and college education costs are sky high. Maybe we should reconsider...
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"Are we doing the right things, and are we doing the right things right?" Good question.
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"Cockpits full of ghosts." Squadron Leader Geoffrey Wellum, 94, who was the youngest Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain and was awarded the DFC, talks about the first time he flew a Spitfire.
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More powerful than Alan Shepherd's first ride into space.
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Back in the day it was called "doing more with less", but it leads to the same end result: bad morale, reduction in readiness and a mass exodus from military that's already cut to the bone.
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