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Stories about: air travel

More Radiation for Travelers During Solar Maximum As the Sun is nearing its solar maximum for this cycle – Solar Cycle 24 – it will begin to produce increasingly large amounts of radiation. These particles will bathe commercial and military aircraft, as well as spacecraft in Earth's orbit, with more radiations than normal. What this implies is an... 28 September 2011 14:21 GMT Happy 40th Anniversary to the Boeing 747 Just recently, the large Boeing 747 jumbo-jet has reached the venerable age of 4 decades since it was first used. Out of the thousands of people traveling aboard one of these planes everyday, not many stop for a minute to wonder about how this great invention came to be, or about what would have air travel looked lik... 11 February 2009 05:27 GMT Sikorsky Aircraft Adopts X2 Technology The importance of helicopters in air transportation services is given mainly by the advantages over airplanes, namely the capability to take off and land vertically and hover at a fixed point in the air. However, the biggest disadvantage is their speed. For example, a 12 passenger helicopter can reach a top velocity ... 30 April 2008 08:43 GMT