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...well as pilots. Tucked between mountain ranges on the Tibetan Plateau, Bangda's runway is the world's highest at 14,000 ft. (4,300 m) above sea level. Because the air is so thin there, the large Boeing and Airbus aircraft that comprise most of China's domestic fleet lack the power and lift to take off and land comfortably under certain conditions, especially in bad weather with a full load of passengers. So in 2002, the Beijing government came up with a surprising solution: China would build a small passenger jet so good that not only could...
...completion), 23 TD, 18 INT, 741 rushing yards, record: 10-8Pizzotti: 98-for-186 ( 52.7 percent), 1,404 yards (14.33 per completion), 7 TD, 6 INT, record: 4-0The stats don’t lie: O’Hagan has been more accurate and more fleet of foot. But Pizzotti has the unblemished win-loss mark. The Crimson, which enters tomorrow with a 1-2 record, is either in need of some mere fine-tuning or the kind of major shakeup that the installation of Pizzotti entails. HARVARD (1-2, 1-0 Ivy) AT CORNELL...
...stunned V-22 boosters: "I'll tell you, there is going to be a crash. That's what airplanes do over time." Conway is not alone. Ward Carroll, the top government spokesman for the V-22 program from 2002 to 2005, believes that six Ospreys, about 5% of the fleet, will crash during its first three years of operational flight. Carroll says new pilots flying at night and in bad weather will make mistakes with tragic consequences. So he's reserving judgment on the aircraft and suspects that many of those who will be climbing into...
Walsh will have to push hard into other markets to compensate for this hit. Next summer BA plans to launch a new service between the U.S. and major business centers in Continental Europe, flying reconfigured 757s from its existing fleet. While Walsh is guarded about the details, "getting a new airline up and running in a little over 12 months," as he sees it, "is a great test of how quickly we can respond." And if things take off, he's even promising to share the acclaim...
Even backed by the new icebreaker fleet Harper has promised, that's not much of a deterrent. In truth, of course, it isn't military encroachment the Canadians fear so much as the environmental peril that may come from unregulated use of their waters. Cruise ships transporting Arctic ecotourists, many of them Russian vessels hired out to Western tour operators, anchored off Resolute 17 times this year alone. Once the Northwest Passage becomes not just a tourist destination but a viable commercial route that would cut an astonishing 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from the distance between Asia...