John Goodenough, a 94-year-old professor, says his new battery can charge faster than current lithium-ion designs, and is noncombustible. A 2013 photo provided by the Japan Transport Safety Board shows frayed and broken earthing wire from the overheated All Nippon Airways’ Boeing 787 lithium-ion battery.
Category: Commercial Aircraft
Travelers fret about WiFi, but it might be about to get better – Fri, 03 Mar 2017 PST
Don’t take my word for it. Just ask Wendy Lewis, who says she spends a good part of every trip trying – and sometimes failing – to find reliable and reasonably priced hotspots.
AVALON: Boeing’s Australian innovations see light of day
Collaborative robotics, virtual reality and aircraft cabin disease transmission prevention are among the latest projects under way at Boeing Research and Technology-Australia – the manufacturer’s largest research organisation outside of the United States. Boeing’s Australian research organisation – based in Melbourne and Brisbane – has been at the forefront of numerous pioneering developments that have been rolled out by the aerospace giant.
BRIEF-Singapore Airlines agrees to place $13.8 bln order with Boeing
* SIA has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 to power 787-10s, which are to be operated on medium-range routes * signs LOI with US airframe manufacturer comprising 39 firm orders plus six options for each aircraft type, if exercised will enlarge deal to as many as 51 aircraft Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: DUBAI, Feb 9 Bahrain-based Investcorp is responding to the election of U.S. President Donald Trump and Brexit by seeking investments in U.S. business services and British real estate, the private equity firm’s Co-Chief Executive Rishi Kapoor said.
Amazon increasingly wants to be its own deliveryman
In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, file photo, Amazon.com boxes are shown stacked near a Boeing 767 Amazon “Prime Air” cargo plane on display in a Boeing hangar in Seattle. Amazon’s announcement on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, of a new air cargo hub in Kentucky is the latest way the e-commerce retailer is dipping its toe, or perhaps whole foot, into building out its shipping and logistics unit.
Amazon increasingly wants to be its own deliveryman
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Ramping Up For ADS-B
Pilots who fly in Southern California’s busy airspace will soon be expected to follow new procedures, so the FAA has planned a… While we were preparing to shut down at a tie down spot at Henderson Airport, Las Vegas, ground control was directing a taxiing Piper …… In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. They’ve moldered on my office shelf, unused, for more than a decade.
Aireon Launch Begins New Era for Satellite-Based Aircraft Surveillance
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday placed the first 10 Iridium Next satellites into low-Earth orbit, each with an Aerion cargo package carrying an ADS-B receiver. The launch represents the first successful effort in space to create Aireon’s global ADS-B-based aircraft-tracking system expected to be operational by the second quarter of 2018.
Mojave a ” thinking outside the box
Doug Scroggins of Scroggins Aviation works on block buster movies often using old planes from Mojave’s boneyard. His helicopter built for the film Jurassic World, was part of the second highest grossing film until Star Wars bumped it out.