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Tag: Aviation

Gulfstream jet in flight

Aviation writer: Know the facts about private jets before you bash them

June 8th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

In this provocative article, aviation writer Doug Gollan challenges the notion that private jets are wasteful and elitist. 

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Final landing and taxi of the first Boeing 727

Watch the final landing and taxi of the first Boeing 727

March 3rd, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

Yesterday, the very first Boeing 727 airliner made its final flight from Everett’s Paine Field to Seattle’s Boeing Field to become part of the Museum

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Germanwings copilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed Flight #9525

March 26th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense

We are horrified that something of this nature could have been taken place… It is the worst nightmare that anyone can have in our company.

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Where is it safe for airlines to fly?

July 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

Where is it safe for airlines to fly? Businessweek’s Justin Bachman discusses what airlines are doing to protect their passengers and aircraft in the wake

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Ukraine says it can prove Russia supplied arms system that downed MH17

July 20th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

We have proof that the terrorist attack was planned and carried out with the involvement of representatives of the Russian Federation… We know that Russia

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Russian media generates wild conspiracy theories to explain MH17 downing

July 19th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

Russian media generates wild conspiracy theories to explain MH17 downing Businessweek’s Carol Matlack looks at some of the crazy conspiracy theories that supposedly mainstream Russian

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Downing of Malaysia jet is a call for Russia to end Ukraine conflict

July 18th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

Mr. Putin and those who support him seem incapable of accepting that their model of government, with all its cronyism, corruption and bullying, is not

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Leading AIDS researcher killed in Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash

July 18th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

Leading AIDS researcher killed in Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash A prominent scientist who has been investigating AIDS, the Auto Immune Defiency Syndrome, is among

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Joe Biden addresses the downing of MH Flight 17 in Ukraine

July 17th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Breaking News, Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

This is truly a grave situation… Nearly three hundred souls have been lost. The families need consolation and our prayers, and many questions need to

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Fireworks filmed with a drone

May 14th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Jos Stiglingh: “Flying through a firework show with a DJI Phantom 2 and filming it with a GoPro Hero 3 silver. The quad was not

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The mission to find MH370 continues: A look at Operation Southern Indian Ocean

April 9th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion flies past Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield on a mission to drop sonar buoys to assist in the acoustic search in support of Operation Southern Indian Ocean. (Photo: LSIS Bradley Darvill/Commonwealth of Australia)

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Flight MH370: Chinese and Australian ships draw blank

March 29th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Breaking News

Flight MH370: Chinese and Australian ships draw blank Objects retrieved from the southern Indian Ocean may not be from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the

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Search for Flight MH370 tests limits of satellites

March 20th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

Imagine driving down the street at seventy miles an hour with a pair of binoculars and trying to look at every single mailbox… You can’t

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Aviation security analyst: Get rid of the on/off switch for aircraft transponders

March 17th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Public Planning

In the movies, radar screens show incredible detail about everything. In real life, radar is easily confused, doesn’t see small planes, and may have trouble

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Missing Malaysia Airlines plane was hijacked, investigators say

March 14th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Breaking News

Missing Malaysia Airlines plane was hijacked, investigators say Malaysian officials have what they say is “conclusive proof” that Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was hijacked, which

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