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A LAN Airlines Airbus A319 (CC-CPL) on short final for Santiago. (Photo by Gordon Gebert)

Chile Needs Over 160 New Airliners in Next 20 Years, According to Airbus Report

A new Airbus report forecasts a need for 164 new airliners in Chile's burgeoning travel market through 2030, the airframer announced this week.
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Aviation News

Video: Boeing 747-8 Extreme Braking Test

How does Boeing test the braking limits on the largest aircraft they've ever built? File the brake pads down to the rivets, load up the plane to nearly a million pounds, gun the engines to 200 mph, then mash the brakes as hard ...
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Airline News
Flight path of American Airlines Flight 1178

American Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing in San Antonio Due to Possible Fire

An American Airlines MD-83 landed safely in San Antonio Wednesday afternoon after reports of a fire in flight.
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Airline News

Live Video: Watch ViaSat-1 Communications Satellite Launch from Kazkahstan

The world's most powerful communications satellite ViaSat-1 is scheduled to launch atop a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:48 pm ET.
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Airline News

Photos: Boeing 787 Dreamliner Completes First Revenue Flight for ANA

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner completed its first money-making trip today, flying from Tokyo to Hong Kong on a special charter flight operated by launch customer All Nippon Airways.
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