Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 
An Air Canada Boeing 767-300ER (C-GEOQ) seen lifting off from Montreal (left: Photo by Gordon Gebert Jr.). A radar image of Venus from the Magellan spacecraft. (right: Image by NASA)

Drowsy Air Canada Pilot Dives Plane to Avoid Hitting Venus: Yup, the Planet

It's not often that the pilots of earth-based vehicles are forced to make risky, evasive maneuvers to avoid colliding with other worlds, but that's exactly what an Air Canada pilot did last year, a government investigation has ...
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BREAKING: JetBlue Pilots Vote to Unionize

By an overwhelming 71% majority, JetBlue Airway's more than 2500 pilots voted to join the Air Line Pilots Association, the nation's largest union for pilots.
by NYCAviation Staff
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USAF’s Super-Secret X-37B Approaches a Milestone

A secretive mission will pass a quiet milestone at the end of this month when the U.S. Air Force’s unmanned spaceplane the X-37B surpasses 500 days in space.
by David Dickinson at Universe Today
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EXCLUSIVE: On the Flight Deck with 787 Test Pilot Heather Ross

NYCAviation goes behind the scenes to learn how a Boeing head test pilot views the success of the 787, pivotal moments during testing, and more.
by Brandon Farris
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Ethiopian's first 787 Dreamliner. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)

Just Another Airplane? 20 Hours Aboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

The state-of-the-art passenger comfort features on the new Boeing 787 have a lot of hype to live up to. Do they really make a difference?
by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren
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