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Beam Me Up. Southwest is launching a Wi-Fi test run aboard its new aircraft - a total of four planes in its fleet will be Web-enabled by early March. If you happen to get a seat on one of them, you'll see placards telling you how to hook up to the Internet for free. In other Southwest news, the airline has just announced it will begin service to Boston's Logan Airport (until now, it has been flying to nearby Manchester, N.H.) this fall...
...NATO sources told TIME that France is not alone in withholding information about nuclear-armed submarines - the Brits and Americans keep the locations of their strategic deterrents secret too. In a prepared statement, a NATO spokesman said, "France uses the same procedures with regard to its submarine fleet as all other allies...
...Canadian company. So Horizon grudgingly ordered 12 turboprops, and the airline hasn't looked back. "We found out very quickly that the Q400 was a completely different animal," says Pat Zachweija, until recently a top executive at Alaska Air Group. Horizon, with 33, has the most Q400s of any fleet in North America and expects to have 48--70% of its fleet--by 2009. "The economics were there," he says. "And as fuel goes up, we just look smarter and smarter." The Q400 might allow the regional to go up against low-cost, short-haul king Southwest and its fleet...
Gates hasn't torpedoed anything that belongs to the Navy--yet. But its $100 billion plan to buy a new fleet of 100,000-ton aircraft carriers (and the ships and subs to defend them) is a tempting target. That's a huge investment in gigantic ships that are increasingly vulnerable to long-range missiles--and even pirates or terrorists in a dinghy. At the heart of the debate is whether the Navy can make do with the 281 ships it has or needs to grow about 10%, to 313 ships. Gates has good reason to be skeptical. The Navy...
...Navy of many smaller and simpler ships, which would complicate enemy targeting and give U.S. commanders better intelligence. Nonetheless, the Navy has just begun spending $11 billion to design and build the first in a new class of carriers, the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, scheduled to join the fleet...