FRANK OLIVER: Not since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright had the people making a record flight designed and built their own aircraft. Dick, Burt and Jeana did. Some people thought their Voyager project was both impossible and foolish. Everyone knew it would be dangerous. The Voyager crew...
Solar Impulse2(SI2), the first solar-powered aircraft in an attempt to fly around the world, landed safely at Kalaeloa Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 5:51 am local time on Friday after a 118-hour non-stop flight over the Pacific. Swiss explorer Andre Borschberg, the pilot, finally ...
The first C919 took off at the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport at 8:04 pm on Friday, successfully conducting a direct flight of around 4,200 kilometers, arriving at Singapore at 01:49 am on Saturday. China's first self-developed narrow-body aircraft C919 arrives at Singapore's Changi...
如果此次“阳光动力2号”飞行成功,它将是世界上首架环球航行的太阳能飞机。 Solar Impulse 2 landed in Chongqing,China,on Tuesday, the fifth-leg of the Swiss-developed airplane's quest to become the first aircraft to fly ...
SpaceShipOne arced through space for about 3 minutes and then glided back to Earth without making a complete orbit around the planet, otherwise known as a suborbital flight. SpaceShipOne made 17 flights in all. Spaceflight was achieved on the 15th flight. Test pilot Michael Melvill was at the ...
The navy now has its first aircraft carrier(航空母舰) Liaoning.It’s a unique experience to get to know the life in the carrier. The carrier is just like a small city on the sea. It has all the functions for daily life. There are 4 words to sum up its characters: big small much ...
The capitalized C of C919 stands (2)___Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, and COMAC for short. The number 9 symbolizes"forever" in Chinese while 19 refers to its capacity of 190 passengers.It has not been (3)___(official) in use yet, but the C919(4)___(take)its first fly ...
around 30 customers have ordered more than 900 A220 aircraft confirming its leading position in the small single-aisle market. Over 340 A220s are currently flying on more than 1,400 routes and more than 440 destinations worldwide. To date, more than 100 million passengers have fl...
When the aircraft is struck by birds or Foreign Object Debris (FOD), the correct inspection process must be followed, before the next flight, to determine if the aircraft is safe to fly.This article focuses on the effect that a bird or hail strike can have on the radome of the aircraft...
January 10, 2024 – DJI, the world’s leader in civil drones and creative camera technology, today introduces DJI FlyCart 30 (FC30) to the global market. This delivery drone overcomes traditional transport challenges with its large payload capacity, long