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The wingspan of a Boeing 767 is 156 feet.
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NEW: NTSB chair tells me based on preliminary data that the Southwest and FedEx planes “came within very close proximity of each other; we believe it’s less than 100 feet”
Planes involved in Austin near-miss came within 100 feet of each other politi.co/3jAW0sE | @politico
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NEW: NTSB chair tells me based on preliminary data that the Southwest and FedEx planes “came within very close proximity of each other; we believe it’s less than 100 feet”
Planes involved in Austin near-miss came within 100 feet of each other politi.co/3jAW0sE |
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Based on interviews with nearly a dozen current and former NASA officials and astronauts, these are the candidates generating the most buzz for Artemis II:
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U.S. STATE DEPT: U.S. AND CHINA HAVE NOT HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RESCHEDULING BLINKEN'S TRIP
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Northwestern Polytechnical University in China has flown a subscale model of a 300-330-seat BWB airliner.
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What Mitsubishi confirmed today with the demise of its commercial airplane unit, we knew clear as day back in May 2020.
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A sequel 40 years in the making, Mel Brooks’ History of the World PART II 
A four night event, streaming March 6 on Hulu #HistoryOfTheWorldPart2
A four night event, streaming March 6 on Hulu #HistoryOfTheWorldPart2
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday it is imposing a temporary security zone in the waters off Surfside Beach, South Carolina in the area where the U.S. military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon.
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Goldman Sachs: “We have cut our subjective probability that the US economy will enter a recession in the next 12 months from 35% to 25%.”
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You ask, but airlines do it? Yes, Spirit & Frontier (et al.) have made flying massively more accessible. I can promise you less desirable seating won't be less costly, it'll be the same price as before and the better seats will have a premium.
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Going to the movies is about timing and anticipation. You go to the movies because you cannot wait to see something. There are so many options and queues of new movies and shows waiting to be watched. Just waiting until it’s streaming is plenty reason enough to stay home.
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It works for the airlines because you travel from A to B. You can’t do that in your living room. Some very clever MBA came up with this and forgot that people have affordable 75 inch TVs in their homes and streaming on every device.
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You can just imagine the meeting where this was presented? “I think we just need to give people one more reason to not go to a movie theater.”
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AMC Theatres to Change Movie Ticket Prices Based on Seat Location
@rebeccaarubin reports
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Notable quake, preliminary info: M 7.8 - 23 km E of Nurdağı, Turkey earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev
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From Reddit user u/BlueAvi8tor, a Nevada ANG C-130 seen through the Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) on a FedEx Boeing 767
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The tiny nose blister is for the EFVS camera.
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N297FE appears to have had the system installed. I would love to know if it was recording during the approach into Austin.
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(1/2) FedEx’s utilization of the Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS)—an incorporation of FLIR technology into the head-up display (HUD)—on their Boeing 767s likely played a role in preventing the near-miss incident during the low-visibility conditions in Austin Saturday morning.
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We have processed and analyzed the granular ADS-B data related to yesterday’s incident involving a FedEx 767 and Southwest Airlines 737 in Austin. Initial analysis and data available for download at flightradar24.com/blog/ntsb-faa- #WN708 #FX1432
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HBO's "Last of Us" took some artistic liberties in portraying Newton, MA.
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The story of Lockheed Martin's "little crappy ships"
How giant defense contractors lobby Congress to overcome the judgment of the Pentagon and saddle the U.S. military with their expensive substandard equipment
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ATC Recording of the Austin Airport incident! 😳
Close call at AUS this morning after a FedEx 767 was cleared to land while a Southwest 737 was still on the runway.
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We had some fun testing the Arrow a few weeks back. Status report: it’s a match made in heaven 😇 ✈️
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Reminder will hear from acting head of aviation safety on Tuesday at a safety hearing
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This is the second major runway incursion incident in a little over two weeks. The entire U.S. air traffic system is throwing off serious warning signs of being exceedingly fragile, understaffed (ATC & airlines) and over capacity as demand continues to surge.
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The NTSB is investigating a surface event at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Saturday, a possible runway incursion and overflight involving airplanes from Southwest Airlines and FedEx.
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The NTSB is investigating a surface event at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Saturday, a possible runway incursion and overflight involving airplanes from Southwest Airlines and FedEx.
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Funny how many people thought this was totally a joke. An inflight internet company exec once told me the biggest future challenge to delivering stable Wi-Fi on a plane isn’t streaming 8K video, it’s the UPLOAD usage from the amount of data coming OFF your phone from TikTok.
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🚨 NEW: Chinese Spy Ballon has been shot over the state of South Carolina.
This mission was carried out by the top-notch F-22 Raptors.
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On AvTalk this week, joins to reflect on the final 747 delivery and to look ahead at what’s next for Boeing—why it’s starting a 4th 737 MAX production line and what role the Transonic Truss-brace wing will play in the future. flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-ep
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New statement from FAA says Ground Stop for Chinese balloon shoot-down is now OVER.
"Flights to and from Wilmington (ILM), Myrtle Beach International (MYR) and Charleston International (CHS) airports are resuming. Other airspace has been reopened. Normal operations resuming."
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JUST IN: President Biden authorized the military to shoot down the balloon on WEDNESDAY “as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to American lives under the balloon’s path,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a new statement
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Resumption of 737 Max deliveries to China gets further away. theaircurrent.com/dispatches/chi
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The military jets using the call sign “FRANK” is significant. Frank Luke Jr. was an American fighter ace in World War I better known as the “Arizona Balloon Buster.” He is credited with shooting down 14 German surveillance balloons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luke
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Chinese high-altitude surveillance #balloon:
USAF F-22s FRANK01 & 02 launched from Langley AFB, VA joining up with KC-135R #AE04B3 57-1473 GASMN02 for aerial refueling.
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98 red balloons gone by.
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First indication that Operation 📌 was successful.
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Per ’s : “The FAA has paused departures to Wilmington (ILM), Myrtle Beach (MYR) and Charleston (CHS) airports to support the Department of Defense in a national security effort.”
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Fighters jets circling the balloon ready to shoot it down over off of Myrtle Beach. #ChineseSpyBalloon
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