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While Airbus and Boeing will again hog the spotlight at the Paris Air Show with their battle for ever-larger slices of the lucrative pie in the sky, a lot of the really interesting stuff will be going on elsewhere at the upcoming biennial aviation and defense industry gathering. Lockheed Martin's F-35 jet will crane necks with high-speed aerial displays, drones will again be a hot topic and a would-be flying car will aim to show that it is closer to getting off the ground as a consumer ride.
Russia's cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump's election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed , including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported. In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data.
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Actor Harrison Ford said he was distracted and concerned about turbulence from another aircraft last month when he mistakenly landed on a taxiway at a Southern California airport after flying low over an airliner with 116 people aboard, according to an audio recording released Friday. "I'm the schmuck who landed on the taxiway," Ford told an air traffic controller shortly after the near-miss on Feb. 13 at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.
Noted aviator and actor Harrison Ford flew his private plane over a jet airliner on the ground at a Southern California airport Monday. It's not the first time the Star Wars and Indiana Jones star has had problems landing.
Actor Harrison Ford had a potentially serious run-in with an airliner at a Southern California airport, NBC-TV reported Tuesday. Ford, 74, was told to land his single-engine plane on a runway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County on Monday, but he mistakenly landed it on a parallel taxiway, passing over an American Airlines jet holding nearby, NBC reported .
Harrison Ford was aboard a small plane that landed on a taxiway of a California airport, flying directly over a waiting American Airlines 737, federal officials said. According to the FAA, the actor's Aviat Husky single-engine propellor plane was cleared to land on Runway 20L at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Monday afternoon.
Iran's flag carrier finalized a major deal with U.S. plane maker Boeing Co. to buy $16.6 billion worth of passenger planes Sunday in one of the most tangible benefits yet for the Islamic Republic from last year's landmark nuclear agreement.
The plane used by Hillary Clinton's campaign is now a free agent, most recently sued by the Dayton Flyers mens' basketball team. Hillary Clinton may no longer be jetting around the country in her bid to win the presidency.
Samsung recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones because a battery flaw can lead to overheating, posing a burn hazard to consumers. Southwest Airlines said a Samsung Electronics smartphone caused smoke that forced the evacuation of a plane waiting to depart from Louisville, Kentucky, almost three weeks after U.S. safety regulators started an official recall of the Galaxy Note 7 .
The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control , the real power center for the American government, has issued licenses to Airbus and Boeing allowing them to sell commercial airliners to Iran. President Obama ordered the licenses, defying the Republican-controlled Congress, which doesn't want any easing of the US economic boycott on Iran.
For months, Hillary Clinton broke with campaign tradition and flew separately from the reporters who follow her around the country. The Democratic presidential nominee drew criticism along the way for a roughly nine-month streak of avoiding any kind of formal news conference.
Hillary Clinton on Monday drew a line between Donald Trump and suspected Russian hacking into the Democratic National Committee when she spoke with reporters during her first day on a shared campaign plane. Clinton said the Russian hacking was "almost unthinkable" and compared the intrusions into a variety of Democratic bodies to Watergate, the infamous break-in of the Democratic National Committee in 1972 by aides close to then President Richard Nixon.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, greets the crew before boarding her new Boeing 737 campaign plane Monday at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. Clinton, who has not held a news conference since last year, will kick off the holiday by finally allowing her press corps onto her campaign plane for the first time this election cycle. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, greets the crew before boarding her new Boeing 737 campaign plane Monday at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. Clinton, who has not held a news conference since last year, will kick off the holiday by finally allowing her press corps onto her campaign plane for the first time this election cycle.
Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport manager Tony Bean stands on the tarmac at the airport in Pullman, Wash., Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Plans to expand the runway at the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport have run into a snag, as the proposal could lead to the demolition of dozens of buildings at Washington State University.
China's first locally built regional jet made its maiden commercial flight on Tuesday, carrying 70 passengers from the western city of Chengdu to Shanghai on the east coast in what state-owned planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd hailed as a milestone. Chengdu Airlines flight EU6679 took two hours and 12 minutes and was "an important milestone in the development of civil aviation in China", COMAC said in a statement.
Boeing Co. is negotiating a deal to sell 100 airplanes to Iran, state-run media reported Sunday, a sale potentially worth billions that would mark the first major entry of an American company into the Islamic Republic after last year's nuclear deal.
Aerospace companies avoided $553 million in tax payments the past two years by taking advantage of generous tax breaks the state offers the industry. Although the Boeing Co.
Boeing Co. won an $11.3 billion order from Vietnam's only private airline, dealing a blow to rival Airbus Group SE in a battle over the growing market for low-cost air travel in Asia.