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Well, this is it. The end of the decade. In a few days the 2010s will be behind us, and a lot of very smug people will start making jokes on social media about how we’re back in the “Roaring 20s” again. Only this time around there’s a lot more …read more
After a decade in development, the Boeing CST-100 “Starliner” lifted off from pad SLC-41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station a little before dawn this morning on its first ever flight. Officially referred to as the Boeing Orbital Flight Test (Boe-OFT), this uncrewed mission was intended to verify the …read more
Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner Fails To Reach Space Station
It’s fair to say that 2019 has not been a good year for the aircraft manufacturer Boeing, as its new 737 MAX aircraft has been revealed to contain a software fault that could cause the aircraft to enter a dive and crash. Now stories are circulating of another issue with …read more
Continue reading What On Earth Is A Pickle Fork And Why Is it Adding to Boeing’s 737 Woes?
Boeing announced today that the first of the RAF’s new maritime patrol aircraft has made its maiden flight in the skies over Renton, Washington. Attended by British Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Royal Air Force personnel as well as Boeing P-8 program leaders, the twin-engine P-8A Poseidon jet took off at 10:00 am on July 12 for a 90-minute test flight that will be followed by the installation of military systems.
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Continue Reading The RAF’s new sub-hunter aircraft takes to the air
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Throughout the history of America’s human spaceflight program, there’s been an alternating pattern in regards to abort systems. From Alan Shepard’s first flight in 1961 on, every Mercury capsule was equipped with a Launch Escape System (LES) tower that could pull the spacecraft away from a malfunctioning rocket. But by …read more
Continue reading New Space Abort Systems go Back to the Future
Boeing is lifting another suite of experimental technologies into the air as part of its EcoDemonstrator program, again packing a modified jetliner with forward-looking features hoped to one day improve air travel. Traveling aboard this time around are 50 projects in all, including ones geared toward smart toilets and others toward improving passengers’ view outside the plane.
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Continue Reading Boeing’s latest ecoDemonstrator plane to test out smart toilets and external cameras
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With the backing of Google co-founder Larry Page, California-based startup Kitty Hawk already has some noteworthy names attached to its flying taxi endeavors. And it has now found another in heavyweight Boeing, with the industry veteran teaming up with its fresh-faced counterpart to accelerate the age of electric aviation.
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Continue Reading Boeing throws its weight behind Larry Page’s flying taxi startup
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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has completed its fifth, final, and most dangerous parachute test. At an altitude of 40,000 ft (12,200 m), the boilerplate capsule was released from a balloon and dropped safely to the desert floor at the… Continue reading Boeing Starliner completes last and most difficult parachute test
At NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, Boeing recently completed live-fire tests of the complex array of thrusters that will be used to guide the seven-passenger spacecraft in orbit and provide propulsion for the emergency abort s… Continue reading Boeing CST-100 Starliner completes hot-fire thruster tests
In the Leadership and Communications segment, How to build a startup, You Don’t Have To Be Nice To Be Respected. Boeing and the Importance of Encouraging Employees to Speak Up, and more! Leadership Articles How to build a startup: 7 tips from… Continue reading Leadership Articles – Business Security Weekly #127