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Graham Warwick

@theworacle.bsky.social
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Technology editor at Aviation Week, lifelong aeroplane enthusiast and recovering aeronautical engineer, sworn to eradicate the word "aircrafts". My musings on aircraft design and aerospace news.

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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ABC7 News Bay Area @abc7news.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Watch the WWII flying boat the Philippine Mars soar over the Golden Gate Bridge. The 80-year-old plane -- which lands and takes off from water -- made an 800-mile journey to the Bay Area from British Colombia and will retire at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. abc7ne.ws/4hUawEy
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Isaac Alexander @jetcitystar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The last operating Martin Mars has arrived in Arizona. Take good care of her Pima Air & Space Museum!
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
#AviationWeek first take on #Airbus hydrogen aircraft postponement story - fuel-cell engine flight tests canceled but SAF-fueled unducted fan and ducted turbofan flight tests on A380 testbed still full speed ahead for next-generation single aisle. #aviation #avgeek aviationweek.com/aerospace/em...
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Airbus Delays Hydrogen But Expands Engine Test Plan | Aviation Week Network
Airbus is slowing ambitions to develop a hydrogen-fueled airliner by the mid-2030s but is expanding nearer-term plans to flight test unducted and ducted sustainable aviation fueled-engines for its nex...
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
#Airbus gives cold shoulder to hydrogen. #aviation #avgeek www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Airbus postpones development of new hydrogen aircraft
Airbus said on Friday it is delaying plans to develop a hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft by the middle of next decade, citing slower than expected developments in technology.
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Gesche Wüpper @geschew.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
According to French Union FO Airbus could push back plans to have a hydrogen plane by 2035 and delay the project for 5 to 10 years, reports La Tribune. bit.ly/414PnBD
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Airbus : vent froid sur l’avion à hydrogène
Selon le syndicat FO, le projet d'avion à hydrogène d'Airbus pourrait être décalé de 5 à 10 ans par rapport à son calendrier initial, soit au-delà de 2040. Si la promesse d'un avion bas carbone est ma...
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Boeing outlines the High Speed Commercial Vehicle concept developed under #NASA contract. HSCV is a four-engine aircraft with a Mach 4 cruise and 5,000 nm range. This is conceptual design for technology roadmapping and not aimed at a product. #aviation #avgeek aviationweek.com/aerospace/em...
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We've been waiting a while, but Textron eAviation company Pipistrel has flown its Nuuva 300 uncrewed cargo #eVTOL. Designed to fly 600lb payload 300nm, Nuuva is hybrid-electric but first flight was all-electric (pusher cruise engine not fitted). Aircraft is loaded via raised nose. #aviation #avgeek
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Tough but fair - and gloomy - assessment of chances of success in eVTOL and hydrogen in transportation markets by Michael Barnard at CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/01/29/t...
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Transportation Firm Deathwatch: Hydrogen & EVTOLs - CleanTechnica
Hydrogen transportation and Jetson's eVTOL fantasies have been dragging governmental and investment money into pits. Both are imploding now.
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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Mirage 2000 ‘Cristal’ is a full-size, fully transparent model of the Mirage 2000 C version. Produced in 1986, it was used to understand the internal architecture of the aircraft, and is now kept at a base in Luxeuil. © DR
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Dan Rutherford @rutherdan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Watching Boom Supersonic's first attempt to go supersonic this fine morning. Let me explain why XB-1 is a loud, dirty, and unsustainable diversion from our critical mission to decarbonize aviation. 🧵 @jonostrower.com @theworacle.bsky.social @oriana0214.bsky.social @airplanegeeks.bsky.social
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Robert Wall @r-wall.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ships and aircraft sneaking about the Earth’s northern latitudes are raising alarms with NATO allies, and Canada and Norway are looking to do something about it through new spacecraft aviationweek.com/space/satell...
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Canada, Norway Use Microsatellites To Hunt ‘Dark’ Ships And Aircraft | Aviation Week Network
Even phantom vessels emit signals that satellites can detect.
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Ross Sharp @aviationhistory.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The oldest flyable aircraft & oldest engine, in the World! Blériot XI, Shuttleworth Trust. When Louis Blériot flew his Type XI across the Channel on 25th July, 1909 it literally changed the world's perception of the aeroplane. This Blériot, #14, still flies but only straight hops these days. 🛩️📍
Louis Bleriot was a genius - an overused word, but applicable in this case. He had made fortune making the world's first practicable car headlight, but set his sights on building a simple yet efficient aeroplane. Here we see, in one of the hangars at the Shuttleworth Trust Collection, Old Warden, his elegant monoplane, the Blériot XI. Wooden framed with fabric covering, it used wing-warping rather than ailerons for control. Its power comes from a 25hp Anzani engine - as well as the oldest flyable aircraft in the World, its Anzani is the oldest flight-worthy aero engine in the World. It have written much more about this aircraft in the following blog entry - enjoy! https://shortfinals.org/2013/05/02/bleriot-xi-the-oldest-flyable-aircraft-in-the-world/
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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A fine illustration of the Mirage III 001 prototype of 1956. During its tenth flight, it reached a speed of Mach 1.52, the upper limit imposed by the shape of the air inlets. In July 1957, its air intake was fitted with a pair of movable half-cone shock diffusers known as "souris".
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Steamy stuff. First look inside Pratt & Whitney’s HySIITE hybrid hydrogen/steam-cycle engine. Incredibly complex, but 35% lower energy consumption than today’s turbofans, zero carbon emissions and 99%+ NOx reduction. aviationweek.com/aerospace/em...
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Pratt & Whitney Unveils Details Of Hydrogen-Steam Hybrid Engine Cycle | Aviation Week Network
The HySIITE engine concept shows promise for a practical zero-emission hydrogen-steam combined-cycle propulsion system.
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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you have to remove the doors to carry a nuclear depth charge, you probably shouldn't be carrying a nuclear depth charge
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vsamsondc.bsky.social @vsamsondc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This headline - OOF. Iran, Japan, and ROK all launched more defense payloads than Europe US Launches 122 Defense Payloads in 2024, Europe Launches 1 payloadspace.com/us-launches-...
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US Launches 122 Defense Payloads in 2024, Europe Launches 1
The US launched 122 defense payloads in 2024, surging 184% YoY, according to data compiled by astronomer Jonathan McDowell. The upswing was driven by the National Reconnaissance Office’s deployment of...
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
#NASA funding feasibility study by University of Illinois into Hy2PASS: hybrid hydrogen propulsion system combining a fuel cell and gas turbine, both using liquid hydrogen. Fuel cell powers electric compressors. Hydrogen also combusted to power turbine driving fan. aviationweek.com/air-transpor...
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NASA Funds Study Of Novel Hybrid Hydrogen Propulsion System | Aviation Week Network
Funded under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, the Hy2PASS project is led by Phillip Ansell.
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Surf's up. #Airbus plans operational validation of fuel-saving wake energy retrieval formation flying with airline-operated A350s. Changed to an opportunistic concept of operations: which aircraft to pair, when and where, will be decided after takeoff. #aviation aviationweek.com/aerospace/em...
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Airbus And Airlines Pursue Validation Of Fuel-Saving Wake-Surfing | Aviation Week Network
A group of Airbus A350 operators plans to demonstrate the operational practicality of pairing flights to take advantage of wake energy.
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Kilvy.bsky.social @kilvy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Lightning F.3 XR713 masquerading as XR718 of 56 Sqn at a recent shoot at the Lightning Preservation Group, Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire #avgeek #aviationphotography #lightning #history #museum
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Robert Wall @r-wall.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Customers to Embraer: 'just do it' aviationweek.com/aerospace/ai...
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Aviation Week/BofA Survey Shows Great Interest In Potential Embraer Narrowbody | Aviation Week Network
More than two decades after Boeing launched development of its last clean sheet aircraft, a new survey of airlines, lessors, manufacturers, component suppliers and MRO providers reveals a high degree ...
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Scramble - Dutch Aviation Society @scramble.nl · 19/01/2025
Wreckage of Bristol Beaufort found read more by clicking on the link below: www.scramble.nl/military-new... Image: Australian Defence
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Bristol Beaufort wreckage found
Bristol Beaufort wreckage found The Australian Hydrographic Office has made a historical discovery during a routine hydrographic survey off the coast of Darwin, in the Northern Ter...
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Airways Magazine @airwaysmag.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg unveiled a restored Lockheed L-1649A "Super Star," initially delivered in 1957. After extensive restoration efforts, it will be displayed at Frankfurt Airport in 2026 as part of Lufthansa's centennial celebrations. 📸: Dirk Grothe/Airways #Lufthansa #avgeek #Aviation
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
News: Amazon is halting drone delivery flights, a month after two of its latest model crashed in the rain in testing. The company says its working on a set of software upgrades, and will need the FAA to sign off before resuming flights: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Amazon Pauses Drone Deliveries After Aircraft Crashed in Rain
Amazon.com Inc. is pausing all commercial drone deliveries after two of its latest models crashed in rainy weather at a testing facility.
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Bill Carey @greenfieldma.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The Transportation Security Administration requires stricter security screening by public charter operators, a development that affects smaller, regional aircraft operators and general aviation airports @ Aviation Week
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#FAA designates vertiports as a class of heliport and begins work on unified, performance-based Vertical Lift Infrastructure Advisory Circular for helicopters and #eVTOL. Vertiports will have standard H marking, with addition of VTL marking. This differs from #EASA aviationweek.com/aerospace/ad...
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FAA Plans More eVTOL DownwashTesting For Vertiport Design Rules | Aviation Week Network
The FAA plans to conduct additional flight testing with eVTOL OEMs as it works to develop unified performance-based design rules for vertiports and heliports.
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Clean-sheet firefighter. Aerobatic aircraft manufacturer Game Aerospace developing GB2 single-engine air tanker. All-composite, two-seat/dual-control, 1,200-gal hopper, 19,000-lb max TO weight, 12,000-lb useful load. 1,800shp P&WC PT6A-67F. First flight Q3 2025, FAA certification Q2 2027. #aviation
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16/01/2025
This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Riblet, riblet. Japan Airlines debuting a 787-9 on international flights with drag-reducing riblets over most of the fuselage. Applied using a paint-to-paint process developed by O-well which JAL says is lighter and more durable than adhesive film. Expected 0.24% reduction in cruise drag. #aviation
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ナツ(nu) @nutsu.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Shinden (Hasegawa 1:48)
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Kilvy.bsky.social @kilvy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Buccaneer S.2B XX894 performing some wing folds at a Threshold.Aero nightshoot at The Buccaneer Aviation Group event at Kemble last weekend #avgeek #aviation #aviationhistory #aviationphotography
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Heart Aerospace @heartaerospace.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Our full-scale demonstrator, Heart X1, has arrived in the US! Soon, it’ll make history as the largest electric airplane ever to fly. Team Heart is hard at work to ensure a safe, groundbreaking flight. 🌍✈️ Stay tuned for updates! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4xT... #Innovation #Electricaircraft
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Heart Aerospace - Our Largest Rig Yet
YouTube video by Heart Aerospace
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Chris Malikoff @chrismalikoff.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"Flight Plan" - Black and White / Street Photography Series #photography #cityphotography #monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #naturallight #contemporaryphotography #fineartstreetphotography #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #noir
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Robert Wall @r-wall.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
How to fit a new-generation of more-efficient engines to an airliner? Can a gull wing be practical on a narrowbody airliner and competitive against more conventional wing designs? The answer, according to a recent NASA study is “yes.” aviationweek.com/aerospace/em...
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Daily Memo: ‘Gull Wing’ Viable For Future Single Aisle Airliners, NASA Study Says | Aviation Week Network
The next generation of single-aisle airliners will depend on very high bypass propulsion systems with much larger fan diameters than those in service today.
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William Adair @williamadair.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Finally got the scratchbuilt spoked wheels finished today after a year of trial and error (mostly error). It was a close-run thing though... they nearly finished ME! 💀 #144scale #144スケモ #modelaircraft #ww1aircraft #scalemodel #scalemodels #aviation #aviationmodels #WW1 #taube
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Robert Wall @r-wall.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Boeing is poised to conduct a functional check flight on the third 777-9 test aircraft, marking a return to flight for the stalled certification program after a five-month grounding caused by the failure of engine thrust links. aviationweek.com/air-transpor...
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Boeing Set To Resume 777X Certification Flight Tests | Aviation Week Network
Boeing is set to conduct a functional check flight on the third 777-9 test aircraft, marking a return to flight for the stalled certification program.
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Mike Pryce @mikepryce.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Having your work quoted by The Woracle (HS Kingston, Flight, AvWeek) is very cool! The CAA report mentioned is here www.caa.co.uk/our-work/pub... with another, CAP 3075, out soon.
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CAP2576: Understanding the downwash/outwash characteristics of eVTOL aircraft | Civil Aviation Authority
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
BAE Systems to provide battery for undisclosed #Airbus demonstration of microhybridization for commercial aircraft. Electric power to be used for pushback, taxi, takeoff assist, powering aircraft systems in the cruise and helping with power transients on descent. aviationweek.com/aerospace/em...
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BAE To Provide Battery For Airbus Hybridization Demo | Aviation Week Network
BAE Systems plans to provide the energy storage system for an Airbus project to demonstrate microhybridization for commercial aircraft.
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Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Caution high winds. #FAA releases report on downwash/outwash hazard testing of three prototype #eVTOL aircraft: Joby (eVTOL #1), Archer (eVTOL #2) and Volocopter (eVTOL #3). Beta was eVTOL #4, which was otherwise occupied and did not participate. aviationweek.com/aerospace/ad...
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FAA Underlines eVTOL Downwash Challenge For Vertiport Design | Aviation Week Network
The introduction of the downwash caution area (DCA) was the result of flight surveys of multiple prototype eVTOL aircraft for the FAA.
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China eVTOL News @chinaevtolnews.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
China sees a major milestone with the first ton-level hybrid eVTOL verification flight powered by liquid hydrogen.
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First Ton-Level Hybrid eVTOL Powered by Liquid Hydrogen Completes Flight
The hydrogen-powered flight comes weeks after the successful full tilt-rotor transition test flight.
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Robert Wall @r-wall.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
ESA has released stunning images the BepiColombo mission collected during its recent flight past Mercury aviationweek.com/space/space-...
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ESA Releases New Mercury Images | Aviation Week Network
ESA has unveiled images the BepiColombo mission collected during its recent flight past Mercury when it skirted only 183 mi. above the planet's surface.
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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The Dassault Mercure, one of the rare attempts by the French aircraft manufacturer to produce an airliner, made its first flight in 1971. Similar to the Boeing 737 but faster, only 11 were produced for Air Inter, a victim of the oil crisis and its less versatile short-haul status.
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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Studied in 1942, the ‘CAPRA R.80’ was a seaplane project that would have been created to transport mail on the North Atlantic network. It was a tri-engine. It could not take off from the water, as its propellers were too low, so take-off was by catapult
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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Double-deck before it was cool. Air Wibault 100 was a large aircraft capable of carrying 70 passengers. It should have contained all the luxury of a hotel with a bar, restaurant, showers and sleeping facilities. The unfinished aircraft was destroyed by German bombing raid in 1940.
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Robert Wall @r-wall.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
As Boeing's commercial aircraft-related priorities shift to boosting production across its product lines, the company continues to report steady progress on a long-term quality improvement plan seen as required for ensuring factory stability. aviationweek.com/aerospace/ma...
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Boeing Reports Steady Progress On Quality Turnaround Plan | Aviation Week Network
Boeing continues to report steady progress on a long-term quality improvement plan seen as required for ensuring factory stability.
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Robert Wall @r-wall.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Recent milestones include implementing criteria throughout both the 737 and 787 final assembly lines that dictate when aircraft can progress to the next position on each line, Boeing said in an update on its efforts. aviationweek.com/aerospace/ma... via @seanbrodrick.bsky.social
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China eVTOL News @chinaevtolnews.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Another Chinese university steps into the low-altitude arena.
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University Reveals Self-developed Flying Car
On the ground, the vehicle can travel at a top speed of 60 km/h.
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China eVTOL News @chinaevtolnews.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The RX4E is the world's first electric aircraft to secure TC under China's CCAR-23 as a 'new-energy electric normal-category aircraft.'
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RX4E Four-Seater Electric Aircraft Achieves Type Certification
The achievement marks the RX4E as the world's first electric aircraft to secure TC under China’s CCAR-23 airworthiness regulations for normal category aircraft.
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