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Aviation Week 2024 Fleet Forecast projects total narrow body, widebody, regional and turboprop aircraft deliveries for 2024 to be at 1,796.
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Alex Krutz, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
The turboprop, bound for Sao Paulo’s international airport, had taken off from Cascavel, in the state of Parana and crashed in the town of Vinhedo, some 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo.
—Reuters and Cnn, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
The airliner is an ATR 72-500 twin-engine turboprop which is used for shorter flights.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2024
The carrier on Friday said the plane, an ATR-72 twin-engine turboprop, carried 57 passengers and four crew, but on Saturday confirmed another unaccounted for passenger was on the flight, increasing the number of casualties to 62.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2024
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Alex Krutz, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
The turboprop, bound for Sao Paulo’s international airport, had taken off from Cascavel, in the state of Parana and crashed in the town of Vinhedo, some 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo.
—Reuters and Cnn, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
The airliner is an ATR 72-500 twin-engine turboprop which is used for shorter flights.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2024
The carrier on Friday said the plane, an ATR-72 twin-engine turboprop, carried 57 passengers and four crew, but on Saturday confirmed another unaccounted for passenger was on the flight, increasing the number of casualties to 62.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2024
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Israel has bombarded Yemen several times in response — sending its jets more than 1,000 miles to do so — but has struggled to decisively subdue the Houthis.Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Rowland added to her beauty archive, attending the Paramount Golden Globe Nominee Celebration in a classic, jet black iteration of her go-to style.India Espy-Jones, Essence, 10 Jan. 2025
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As ramjets forego moving parts like the compressor and turbine components found in traditional turbojets, the design is more compact, lightweight, efficient, and cost-effective to produce.New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
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Those advantages also have a downside: ramjets are entirely ineffective at low speeds and are often accompanied by turbojets to handle subsonic flight, where the airspeed isn't enough to feed air-hungry ramjet engines.New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
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As for its power source, the aircraft gets its juice from a fuel cell, which produces electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen, leaving only water as a byproduct.Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, flights within the U.S. are more expensive than a year ago, as airlines’ capacity growth slows and aircraft delivery delays from Boeing and Airbus continue to dog carriers.Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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The tally widened the delivery gap with Boeing’s chief rival, Airbus, which gave 766 jetliners to customers last year, the most since 2019, though both companies are facing supply chain strains that have slowed production and fulfillment of their otherwise robust backlogs.Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
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Boeing demanded in 2013 that machinists drop their pension plan as part of an agreement to build a new model of the 777 jetliner in Washington state.David Koenig, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
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Miraculously, only one member of the Hooligan Navy was killed while serving, during a collision with a Dutch freighter.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Authorities said at the time that their initial findings showed a Chinese fishing vessel and a Chinese freighter caused the disruption, but that there was no evidence Beijing deliberately tampered with the cables.Reuters, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
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The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024
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The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Project hopes to revive commercial supersonic by reducing a jet’s sonic boom.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
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Nic Lynn, Neptune Aviation’s vice president of operations, said three of the company's air tankers are in use in Southern California.Terry Dickerson, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
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The shadow fleet is made up of hundreds of aging tankers of uncertain ownership and safety practices that are dodging sanctions and keeping the oil revenue flowing to Moscow, and is a cause of concern for European countries.Lorne Cook and Vanessa Gera, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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The drone is the ostensible replacement for the Mavic 3 Enterprise and features a similar backpack-friendly foldable airframe.Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2025
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The great warplane evacuation may have saved valuable airframes from destruction in the recent drone bombardment.David Axe, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Turboprop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turboprop. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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