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...July 9, that is made of carbon fiber and other composites instead of aluminum. The new materials will reduce the weight of the plane 20% Percentage by which the design of the Dreamliner will reduce fuel usage compared to similarly sized planes. But some environmental activists argue that the jet, which is smaller than its Airbus rivals, will result in more overall flights and therefore more air pollution...
Percentage by which the design of the Dreamliner will reduce fuel usage compared with similarly sized planes. Claims for the jet's main rival, the much larger Airbus A380, also include an environmental edge: by ferrying more passengers, it can reduce congestion and emissions in the skies...
...going to two bodies," says systems engineer Marc Rayman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "If we wanted to go to even one of them, we'd normally have to carry several tons of propellant and would need one of the largest rockets in the U.S. inventory to get it off the ground...
...million Estimated price of the Airbus A380 superjumbo purchased by an anonymous buyer at the Paris air show for use as a private jet...
...intense. Born in Tunisia of Sicilian parents who moved to the U.S. in 1910, Marcello later used a phony Guatemalan birth registration to avoid deportation to Italy. Fully aware that Marcello was not a Guatemalan, Kennedy in 1961 nevertheless had Immigration agents hustle him aboard a 78-seat jet as its lone passenger and deposit him in Guatemala City. Marcello and his American lawyer were later flown to El Salvador, where soldiers dumped the two expensively dressed men in the mountains. Marcello claimed he fainted three times and broke several ribs before finding his way to a small airport. Slipping...