Synthetic biology aims at the design and construction of biological devices and systems for useful purposes. From an ideal engineering perspective synthetic biology works from rational design made through a few conceptual pillars, namely abstraction, standardization and modularity. Nevertheless, the combinati...
Qantas is embarking on a AS400 million ($359 million) fleet revamp that will see it remove first-class seats from nine Boeing 747-400S and eliminate the cabin from eight Airbus A380s on order. This move is a response to changing "travel trends", especially in the wake of the economic ...
John Blanchard was studying the crowd making their way through the station. He was looking for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn' t, the girl with the rose. When reading a book in a Florida library a year before, John became interested not in the contents of the ...
The Long-Haul LCC companies set their future on the greater public’s will to travel, once the cost is low enough. A trip from New York to London used to cost at least $2,500. Now one can buy a direct ticket with Norwegian for $550 or a two-hop ticket over Reykjavik with WOW Ai...
The new A3XX - now renamed the A380 - superjumbo will be about 40 per cent bigger than the rival Boeing 747. But when the Brabazon and the Princess first took to the skies they were almost four times the size of the world's then-largest airliner, the hugely popular Lockheed Constellati...
Here, there isn't just a high-end first class seat, but also a bar. Just like the upstairs bar on the early Boeing 747s, but bigger and better. (Photo by Nick Ellis / The Points Guy) Also not found 50 years ago: An onboard shower. (Photo by Nick Ellis / The Points Guy) And...
Ed Bastian:Well, a lot of predictive engineering technology, just a lot of root cause analysis as to what was failing. Having the right tooling, having the right parts on hand where they were needed rather than having to wait six hours for a part to be shipped to a different location. ...
The promise of greater luxury in the sky was one of the great selling points of the A380 for fliers more used to the cramped conditions of smaller aircraft or tight seating configurations even in bigger machines like the Boeing 747. Ironically, the 747 – the original jumbo – first flew...