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Why a cargo airline is eyeing a radical new aircraft design for its future planes
Canadian charter airline Nolinor Aviation has agreed to buy an all-new aircraft type known as a "blended-wing body" as it expands beyond its all-Boeing fleet. The futuristic cargo plane "Kona" is ...
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Virtual Wind Tunnel Speeds Design Of Autonomous Cargo Aircraft
U.S. startup Rune Aero is using an interactive virtual wind tunnel powered by physics-based machine learning algorithms to ...
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Why the $340 million C-17 became the center of evacuation efforts
Armed with cutting-edge aviation electronics, the C-17 can cost up to $340 million per plane ... 172,000 pounds of cargo on here, whether it has to do with vehicles or any type of palletized ...
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Self-flying planes could transport passengers one day—but first, packages
So far, it says it has conducted test flights ranging from 10 minutes to several hours with three types of aircraft ... will let companies transport cargo, with a plan to eventually allow them ...