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Sort by TruthNews.us (Free subscription) - 07/12/2008 - YouTube
... consider Obama’s antiwar rhetoric on the stump. The first advisor I will mention is former Indiana Congressman and Democrat, Tim Roemer . He was a member of the 9/11 Commission , and a representative of the war-profiteering weapons makers Boeing and Lockheed Martin , which also happen to be the world’s largest defense contractors. While in office, Roemer voted for the Iraq War and said this:...
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Boeing 737-700 Wedgetail First Flight Boeing Co., the second-largest U.S. defense contractor, said a $1 billion program to supply Australia with six surveillance planes is now scheduled for delivery in 2009 after a two-year delay. ``The first and second planes will be delivered in March 2009,'' said Pete Neal, operations manager for Boeing's Airborne Early Warning and Control business,...
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McCain's campaign is rife with lobbyists. They run the entire operation. Last week, two of them were dumped because they represented the brutal regime in Myanmar. Another one left over his involvement in an anti-Democrat 527 . This week, another one -- a very top fundraising official -- has already dropped. This one, Thomas Loeffler, McCain's national finance co-chair, not only represented Saudi Arabia,...
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... in within 180 days, a check airman would again be required before they could fly there again.
Co-pilots must have observed one takeoff and landing there from the jumpseat before flying a trip to TGU. And yes, Captains are required to make all landings into TGU. The only such airport we operate into with that requir
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Sort by The Speculist (Free subscription) - 04/05/2008 - YouTube
... the rest of that story... But there are other ways that hydrogen can make things fly. For example, Boeing has recently announced that, earlier this year, the aircraft manufacturer demonstrated the first-ever manned flight of an airplane powered entirely by a hydrogen battery. NASA tells us that aircraft account for "up to 4 percent of the annual global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels near...
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Well , at least GE will make the engines and the good 'ole boys in Al-a-bam-a will build it. The profits mostly go to the EU, but such is a competition. Northrop Grumman Corp. won a U.S. Air Force program valued at as much as $35 billion to build 179 aerial refueling tankers with partner European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. in a surprise decision that breaks Boeing Co.'s half-century...
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China raises rates again in inflation fightChina has raised interest rates for the sixth time this year, a move intended in large part to ease growing public concerns about rising inflation Bush Prods Saudi Arabia on Oil Prices Saudi Arabia?s oil minister appeared to rebuff the president's appeal to consider [...]
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Sort by Neatorama (Free subscription) - 01/14/2008 - YouTube
Last week, there was a peculiar spectacle at New Zealand's Auckland airport: a race between the A1 Grand Prix Black Beauty (driven by Jonny Reid) and an Air New Zealand Boeing 777 (piloted by Captain Dave Morgan). "It was just fantastic, a mind blowing experience," an exhilarated Reid said after the unusual match-up of the [...]
