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Boeing Chief Executive Jim McNerney, acknowledging that "I'm sounding like Darth Vader here," touted plans Wednesday to reduce costs by squeezing suppliers hard and cutting jobs across the company.

A China Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter, freight flight CI-5254 from Anchorage,AK to Atlanta,GA , was on approach to Atlanta's runway 27R when one of the trailing edge flaps separated from the wing.

Many Federal Reserve officials earlier this month wanted to see more evidence that the U.S. economy was recovering before shifting toward a tapering of their bond purchase program, the Fed said on Wednesday.

Virgin Atlantic announced the increase in capacity of more than a third after it confirmed it would use a Boeing 747 plane for its 2014 programme.

Standing beside Solar Impulse - the world's most advanced solar aircraft - in a hangar at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on a recent afternoon, Bertrand Piccard attempted to diagnose humankind's biggest problem.

Peter Hartman, President and CEO of KLM and James Hogan, President and CEO of Etihad Airways celebrate the launch of Etihad Airways' flights between Abu Dhabi and Amsterdam Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, have entered the second phase of their strategic partnership following the launch ... (more)

A Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental successfully completed its first test flight this week with a package of performance improvements including enhanced GE engines.

Company opens satellite kitchen at Stansted Airport and adds new equipment in London and Paris to serve wide-body aircraft.

If six months in orbit 230 miles from earth sounds like a challenge, take a look at the bizarre lengths astronaut Tim Peake has already gone to in his training.

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Scientists monitoring Alaska's volcanoes have shut down stations that track eruptions in real time and put off repairing seismic equipment because of federal budget cuts -- moves that could delay getting vital information to pilots and emergency planners.

Boeing Business Jets displayed a BBJ 3 for the first time at the 2013 European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland.

On May 15/13, the US DSCA announced a pair of official export requests to provide and install Northrop Grumman's AN/AAQ-24 Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures , for use on Oman and Qatar's royal flight VVIP jets.

Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was temporarily closed after a Boeing 747 plane carrying about 140 people caught fire upon landing, This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets enabled.

In early June, the University of Maine will launch a small-scale offshore demonstrator of a floating wind turbine, fabricated in its lab with a lightweight concrete foundation and composite tower.

The new revolt of the masses. 'Can capitalism survive?' is one of the trendiest conference topics among red-blooded capitalists and left-leaning professors alike.

This Wednesday, May 9, 2012, file photo, shows a drilling rig near Kennedy, Texas.

The U.S. Air Force ordered its first three Boeing jets for the president and other high-ranking officials 55 years ago, on May 15, 1958.

May 15, 2013 - Cormac Siegfried, son of EAA Director Emeritus Rand Siegfried, successfully completed his first solo flight in a powered aircraft on May 5 in his grandfather Robert "Old Bob" Siegfried's Boeing Stearman PT 17, the iconic World War II trainer.