Archive for April, 2011
 

 

On This Day in Aviation History: April 12th

A day of major space milestones: Russia Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space and the US launches the first Space Shuttle 20 years later. Also, a British Airways Concorde loses part of its rudder, the first passenger flig...
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Delta Connection CRJ appears to have suffered damage to its vertical stabilizer and left horizontal stabilizer

Air France Airbus A380 Clips Smaller Delta Jet at Kennedy Airport in New York

An Air France Airbus A380 superjumbo jet has clipped the tail of a smaller Delta Air Lines plane while taxiing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
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Video: Going Weightless During Boeing 747-8F Test Flight

Engineers testing structural capacity of the 747-8 Freighter experience a roller coaster-like weightlessness as Boeing pilots put the new jet through its paces.
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FAA Opens New Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia

The FAA on Monday announced the opening of a the new David J. Hurley Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Warrenton, Virginia.
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Video: Antonov An-124 Loads Giant Concrete Pump in Atlanta for Delivery to Crippled Japan Nuke Plant

A Volga-Dnepr Airlines Antonov An-124 chartered by Japan's disgraced Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) landed in Atlanta on Friday to pick up a giant Putzmeister concrete pump for delivery to Japan.
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