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NTSB: Loose Rivets Found in Plane With Hole
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Investigators trying to determine why the roof of a Southwest Airlines jet cracked open in flight have issued preliminary findings suggesting there may have been flaws in the riveting work when Boeing built the plane 15 years ago. The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that some of the rivets used to bind the Boeing 737's aluminum panels together were sunk in holes larger than the rivet shafts. The holes weren't lined up correctly and were misshapen, not round, the board said. It didn't offer any conclusions and said the investigation is continuing. Southwest ...
New Treaty Would Ban Space Weapons for Earthlings and ETs
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIt's a good thing the outer space battles in "Star Wars" happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away -- because under a new space-based weapons treaty drafted by aerospace and military experts, humans and aliens alike would be barred from waging war above Earth. The carefully prepared treaty invites all U.N. member nations to be signatories -- and all "cosmic cultures" to become parties -- in a plan to create a framework "that will assure and verify that space is and will remain a neutral realm from which all classes of space-based weapons are banned in perpetuity." Carol Rosin, an ...
Boeing Wins Controversial $35B Aircraft Competition
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsAfter 10 years of competition and controversy, Boeing Co. emerged triumphant late today, beating out a European competitor to sell a new fleet of refueling tankers to the U.S. Air Force. "We can tell you Boeing was the clear winner," Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn told reporters at a Pentagon briefing. The decision essentially is a reversal of the last competition, which the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., or EADS, won. The company was offering the Air Force a refueling tanker built on the Airbus aircraft. After EADS was selected in 2008, Boeing protested to the Government ...
Pentagon Reports Billions of Dollars in Contractor Fraud
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe Pentagon paid hundreds of billions of dollars to defense contractors engaged in criminal or civil fraud -- in some cases paying the companies after they were convicted, according to a new Defense Department report. At least 91 contractors holding contracts worth $270 billion were the subjects of civil fraud judgments -- and in some cases criminal fraud convictions as well, many of which resulted in fines, suspensions or debarments. Even so, Defense Department contracting officers still assigned $4.9 billion worth of work with these companies after the fraud was uncovered, the report ...
Opinion: 2011 -- The Year of Commercial Space Travel
By Rand Simberg - AOL NewsLast year turned out to be a momentous one for commercial spaceflight. It started in late January, when NASA rolled out a controversial new plan that relied on the private sector to get its astronauts to orbit. More exciting events came in the months that followed: The first drop test of Virgin Galactic's suborbital spaceship. The announcement of a new Caribbean spaceport in Curacao for XCOR Aerospace's planned suborbital Lynx rocket plane. The in-flight shutdown and restart of vertical takeoff/landing rockets by Masten Space Systems and Armadillo Aerospace. The announcement ...
Dreamliner Nightmare: Boeing 787 Evacuated Due to Smoke in Cockpit
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- It's not exactly the stuff dreams are made of. Today, during a test of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas, after smoke was detected in the cockpit. According to the Seattle Times, the pilot of Dreamliner 2 activated the security slides upon landing at around 2:54 CST, and approximately 40 people were able to deplane without incident. Boeing developed the Dreamliner planes, which are constructed largely of a lightweight composite material, to be highly fuel efficient. The Seattle company was to start delivering ...
The Airbus A380: By the Numbers
By J. Richard - AOL News
(Nov. 4) -- From the beginning, engineers knew getting the Airbus A380 off the ground wasn't going to be easy. With four engines, two passenger decks and 22 wheels, the aircraft (dubbed "Superjumbo" by the media) is the largest passenger airliner in the world, laying claim to the title on its first commercial flight in October 2007. Airbus The Airbus A380's twin-aisle, twin-deck passenger cabin can accommodate 525 to 853 passengers, depending on the configuration. Now, three years and 6 million passengers later, airports around the world are grounding A380 fleets after part of one plane's ...
Court Tosses Lawsuit Against Boeing in Transport of CIA Terrorism Suspects
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA divided federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary for its role in ferrying terrorism suspects to foreign countries for interrogation by the CIA. Voting six to five, the judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals cited secrecy grounds in ruling for Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., The New York Times reported. The decision is a blow to the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the suit on behalf of five former detainees who claimed they were tortured as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. The ACLU accused Jeppesen of being complicit in the ...
Opinion: Is Congress About to Hand Russia the Keys to Space?
By Rand Simberg - AOL News(July 22) -- With the coming retirement of the Space Shuttle, the most immediate issue in human spaceflight is how to get U.S. crews to the International Space Station. When the decision was made in 2004 to retire the shuttle, the plan was to have a small "gap" starting this year, during which the Russians would provide this service, as they did for the two-and-a-half-year period after Columbia was lost. But if lawmakers in the House have their way, we could be buying rides from Russia to the space station for the foreseeable future. Here's the story so far. The 2004 plan envisioned a ...
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