Aerospace
Official: Solar plane to help energy use on ground
The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane. When it's in flight, there's no roar of jet engines. It's strangely quiet. And as it crisscrosses America, the spindly plane doesn't use a drop of fuel. Day, and ...
Honolulu flight to SFO turns around after problem
The Federal Aviation Administration says a United Airlines flight bound for San Francisco from Honolulu turned around because of an unspecified electrical problem. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said Monday the Boeing 737 airplane landed without incident. The redeye flight took off from Hawaii on Sunday night just before midnight and ...
NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years. Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. A female helicopter pilot also is in the group. In fact, four of the eight are women, the highest percentage ...
Lucrative long-hauls get boost at Paris Air Show
Airbus and Boeing won pledges for big purchases of their lucrative long-haul wide-body jets at the Paris Air Show Monday, raising hopes that demand is recovering following the worldwide recession. The global aviation event at Le Bourget airfield north of Paris is once again playing host to the rivalry between ...
Paris Air Show peek: Wide-body battle and drones
The Paris Air Show, which opens for business on Monday, brings hundreds of aircraft to the skies around the French capital, the usual tense competition between aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus, and a slew of innovations large and small. Here's what to look for over the show: BATTLE OF THE ...
Solar-powered plane lands near Washington
A solar-powered plane nearing the close of a cross-continental journey landed at Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital early Sunday, only one short leg to New York remaining on a voyage that opened in May. Solar Impulse's website said the aircraft with its massive wings and thousands of photovoltaic ...
Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons
Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online. Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up to 50 volunteer households are already beginning to receive the Internet briefly ...
Program seeks more students in manufacturing
Their friends probably think manufacturing means working on an assembly line in a dark, dirty factory. But six rising juniors in Kenton County Schools now know differently — and this fall they will spread the word. The students, who attend one of the district's six Academies of Innovation & Technology, ...
Google launches Internet-beaming balloons
Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal ...
No injuries in Reno plane collision at air races
One of two Czech-built military training jets that collided in midair while practicing for this fall's National Championship Air Races in Reno had to make a belly landing on the runway with no wheels, but neither pilot was hurt at the airport where 11 people were killed during the finals ...
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