Feb 17
Landing in a crosswind can be terrifying
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Jan 21
If Boeing was looking to 2014 as a fresh start
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Jan 14
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the company’s pride and joy, but this state of the art aircraft hasn’t been able to take to the skies without drama. Last year the plane was grounded globally for over four months after a series of battery related fires that warranted a redesign of the entire system. It appears that the Boeing 787 battery issues might have emerged once again. Earlier today a Japan Airlines 787 Dreamliner was temporarily grounded after white smoke was spotted outside the plane, and the warning lights in the cockpit indicated that there might be a fault with the main battery and charger. According to reports, one battery cell might even have leaked.
It has almost exactly been an year since Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways grounded their 787 fleets after batteries on two separate aircrafts overheated in under two weeks. The global fleet was grounded on January 16th 2013 and didn’t take off for at least three months as Boeing redesigned the battery system. Boeing has confirmed that it is “aware” of the issue that occurred earlier today, according to the company it appears to have involved the “venting of a single battery cell.” Only a detailed investigation will reveal what the cause of the latest incident is, if it is widespread, Boeing’s second consecutive new year won’t be off to a good start.
Boeing 787 Battery Issues Emerge Yet Again original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 14
Reuters reports that smoke was seen coming from a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner early Wednesday morning. You might remember that almost exactly a year ago, a Dreamliner caught on fire in Boston, grounding the plane worldwide for four months. The cause of that fire? The battery
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Jan 10
In the event of a nuclear strike on American soil, we’re going to be in a little bit of trouble. But at least we’ll die safe in the knowledge that the valiant leaders of our nation—or any yahoos lucky enough to be in office at the time—will be escaping the nuclear holocaust in a fleet of environmentally-impervious airborne command centers.
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Dec 07
There’s a pretty harrowing video making its way around the internet today of a Boeing 777 as it makes an attempt (and fails miserably) at landing. But it’s no crash—thanks to an insane crosswind, it literally cannot land.
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Dec 02
Chinese manufacturers are experts at knocking off just about anything, from "Rat Ban" sunglasses and "Wee" gaming consoles to, yes, "HiPhones." But now it looks like they’re very close to copying another American export: They’re bootlegging our Boeing 747s.
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Nov 18
Commercial planes have gotten bigger and bigger over the past few decades, but the size of the gate at most airports have stayed the same. To circumvent this little infrastructural disconnect, Boeing’s future 777x jet will have a massive wingspan that folds up upon landing.
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Sep 24
F-16 Jet Piloted Remotely
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Has the age of terminators arrived? It really depends on whose perspective you are looking from, as the folks over at Boeing have revealed that they successfully retrofitted one of their retired fighter jets – an F-16 in particular, transforming it into a drone. Now that is certainly a fearsome thought for the enemies, don’t you think so? One of the Lockheed Martin F-16 that is no longer in active service actually performed its maiden flight with an empty cockpit sometime last week.
Needless to say, a couple of US Air Force pilots controlled the F-16 from the ground as it managed to make a trip from a Florida base all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Boeing hopes that this particular innovation could eventually be fine tuned so that it can be used to train pilots in the making, while offering a worthy adversary in the hands of a practice dogfight. This creaking fighter jet took to the skies at an altitude of 40,000ft (12.2km) and a speed of Mach 1.47 (1,119mph/1,800km/h), where it managed to perform a bunch of manoeuvres, among them including a barrel roll and a “split S”. This unmanned F-16 was followed by a couple of chase planes so that folks on the ground will always have an eye’s view on it, while it had a self-destruct mechanism just in case things go awry. Pretty neat, don’t you think so?
F-16 Jet Piloted Remotely original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sep 24
If “fighter pilot” was your desired career, you’d better hurry up now that Boeing is looking to replace you with a robot. The company has retrofitted a retired F-16 fighter, which had laid dormant for 15 years, into a drone for combat training missions. Rather than risking life and limb in the cockpit, two test pilots can maneuver the craft, now called QF-16, from Florida’s Tyndall Air Force Base — presenting rookie flyers with a target that can hit 9G and supersonic speeds. There’s an explanatory video below, which explains the benefits of computer controlled planes but… wait a minute, isn’t this the plot of Stealth?
Filed under: Transportation
Via: The Register
Source: Boeing
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