Synopsis: Transport & travel: Air travel: Aircraft:


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The safety of nuclear energy is equal to flying an airplane. On a typical day life is good

but when an airplane falls from the sky and you are in it it only ends in as a gigantic disaster.

Flying (at least flying in commercial airliners which the rest of your comment indicates you were talking about) is by far the safest mode of transportation.

because every airliner crash becomes a major international news story. Meanwhile tens of thousands of auto (and cycle) deaths every year barely rate a mention in the local paper.

over unsuspecting populations. 2. Comparing radiation received from an airplane flight to exposure to nuclear radiation


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Tornadoes ice storms wildfires and drought now routinely overwhelm the nation's aging electrical infrastructure inflicting sweeping blackouts.


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Otherwise you may be horrified at how your car the airplane you may have flown in or the building you work in were designed.


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He then moved to the Bay Area to work for Dow chemical on plastic composites including ones for the new stealth bomber.


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Traditional fixed-wing aircraft rely on a steady flow of air over the wings. The same is true of helicopters and rotors.

The aircraft has a 16.5-centimeter wingspan; it can fly vertically and horizontally and hover in place against gusting wind.

The british Forces have begun recently using a microdrone a hand-launched helicopter called the Black Hornet to scout for insurgents in Afghanistan.


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The technology could also supply a source of renewable jet fuel required by recent European union aviation emission regulations.

Commercialization will lead to the widespread use of proprietary Vertimass technology for low cost production of sustainable transportation fuels for aircraft and heavy and light duty vehicles from multiple sources of biomass on a large scale.


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Trains and planes and ships revolutionized the food market, he said. It really transformed the way people move


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Our aircraft engines plant in Cincinnati. A healthcare facility in Europe. Now we have a cool in-house system where we track


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On September 28, 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a Light Sport Aircraft certificate for the Maverick Sport,

Its flight feature depends on a large, stowable glider wing and a rear-mounted propellor for thrust.

while the glider car is at an $80, 000 price point, but it wouldn't take much of a reduction to turn this into an attainable tool--or toy--for countless individuals and organizations.


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