Artículo: A Dramatic Finish For Solar Impulse, The Solar-Powered Plane That Flew Across The U.S.
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Read more...El piloto del Boeing 777 siniestrado en San Francisco tenía sólo 43 horas de experiencia en ese modelo.
En el momento del siniestro el aparato los mandos estaban en manos de Lee Kang Kook, de 46 años, un piloto con "mucha experiencia" con otros aviones como Boeing 747, 737 o Airbus 320 desde que comenzó a pilotar, en 1994, pero "estaba en periodo de prácticas con el B777", ha reconocido Lee Hyo Min en declaraciones al diario 'Los Ángeles Times'.
Lee Hyo Min ha matizado que el copiloto era Lee John Min, de 49 años. Lee John Min "tiene más experiencia", con más de 12.000 horas de vuelo. "Tenía mucha experiencia con el B777", ha asegurado.
Europe’s civil UAV Roadmap released
http://media.aerosociety.com/aerospace-insight/2013/07/05/europes-civil-uav-roadmap-released/8366/
Read more...Agricultural UAV Flight Demonstration Conducted In Kansas
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Read more...British Government Funds Advanced Aircraft Engine Research
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Read more...Solar-Impulse completes trans-America flight
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Read more...Artículo: San Francisco Boeing 777 crash 'not mechanical failure'
A Boeing 777 aircraft that crash-landed at San Francisco airport killing two people did not have mechanical problems, an airline official has said.
The head of the South Korean airline Asiana, Yoon Y …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23216587
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Read more...Artículo: Video: SpaceX’s Grasshopper Makes Vertical Takeoff, Vertical Landing a Reality
Photo by Steve Jurvetson; used under Creative Commons license.SpaceX, the private space transport company founded and run by Elon Musk, has made yet another advance: rockets that not only don't burn up in the atmosphere on the way down, but are actually capable of landing vertically on the exact ...
http://geekdad.com/2013/07/video-spacexs-grasshopper/
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Read more...Artículo: In-Flight Google Hangout: Ride Along in a Continent-Crossing Solar Plane
Solar Impulse pilot and co-founder André Borschberg departed Washington D.C. this morning and is on his way to New York City right now in an airplane powered entirely by the sun. The flight is the final leg of Solar Impulse's Across America flight that started back on May 3 in San Francis …
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/solar-impulse-transcontinental-flight/
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