CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS – The I-X Center has rescued an aircraft with ties to the massive, World War II-era building and plans to showcase it on the complex’s 1 million-square-foot exhibition floor. The airplane, a KC-97 Stratofreighter flying tanker, is in pieces for now. But within a year, with the investment of $1 million-plus, I-X …
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LAN Airlines Order Doubles Boeing 767 Bookings | AVIATION WEEK
LAN Airlines’ order of five Boeing 767-300ERs doubles Boeing’s count for the civilian version of the twin-engine jet this year and helped boost the company’s total net orders through May 17 to 127. Boeing now has taken 13 767 orders in 2011, 10 more than in all of 2010. But four of this year’s orders …
Dive team finds part of Air France Flight 447 recorder; data missing | ATWOnline
French Air Accident Investigation Bureau (BEA) on Wednesday confirmed that investigators searching for wreckage of the Air France A330-200 that crashed in the South Atlantic June 1, 2009 located the aircraft’s flight data recorder. However, BEA subsequently told Bloomberg that the FDR is missing “the memory module that stores its crucial information,” the news agency …
United 757 over Pacific – engine shutdown on Feb 28th 2011 / Aviation Herald
A United Airlines Boeing 757-200, registration N595UA performing flight UA-57 from Los Angeles,CA to Kona,HI (USA) with 84 people on board, was enroute above the Pacific about 50 minutes prior to estimated landing in Kona, when the crew needed to shut an engine (PW2040) down due to a low oil pressure indication via Incident: United …