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After a Year of Tinkering, Richard Branson’s Spaceplane Launcher Flies Again
Virgin Galactic’s carrier aircraft VMS Eve took to the California skies yesterday for an important two-and-a-half-hour flight test. It’s the latest sign that the Richard Branson-founded company is preparing to resume suborbital flights.
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U.S. Navy Releases Up-Close Pics of Chinese Spy Balloon Retrieval
Last week, an unidentified object appeared 18,288.00 m above the ground in Montana. Originating from China, the balloon gave all the appearance of being a spying aircraft.
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FAA Says Computer System Update Should Prevent Another Glitch That Grounded 11,000 Planes
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has implemented computer system changes to combat outages like the one that occurred on January 11, resulting in more than 11,000 flight disruptions.
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How Contrails Are Aviation’s Biggest Threat to the Environment
It would be easy to assume that the commercial aviation industry’s fuel consumption was its biggest impact on the environment. For example, a Boeing 737-800 burns about 2,268 kg of fuel an hour in the sky. However, research shows that persistent contrails play a much larger role. An eight-year-long study found that contrails created 57…