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- World's biggest airliner to serve as private jet
- LE BOURGET, France AFP — Attention hip hop stars and billionaires: the world's biggest airliner, the 73-metre-long (239-feet) Airbus A380 superjumbo, has been ordered by a mysterious buyer for use as a private jet. The order sets new heights in the private plane sector, leaving the Learjet, which used...
- Research articles 2007-06-19
- SAUDI AIRLINES POSTS 14% REVENUES INCREASE
- According to Al-Riyadh newspaper (September 8, 2004), Dr. Khaled A. Ben-Bakr, Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines SV, stated that the airliner's total revenues grew by 14% in the first half of the current year compared with the same period of last year. The director general added that the Saudi...
- Research articles 2004-09-09
- Chinese president takes a walk inside Airbus superjumbo
- TOULOUSE, France AFP ? Chinese President Hu Jintao ended a four-day state visit to France by inspecting the inside of a giant model of the future Airbus superjumbo airliner, which the group hopes to sell to the booming Chinese civil aviation sector. The A380 aircraft, capable of carrying more...
- Research articles 2004-01-29
- NASA spinoffs: Bring space technology down to earth
- If you've ever used a laptop computer, had a CAT scan, flown in a commercial airliner, or driven a car, you've benefited from NASA technology. Ideas originally developed for use in space programs from Apollo to the International Space Station have been transferred to the private sector and have found...
- Research articles 2003-05-01
- MIDDLE EAST: CONFERENCE CALLS TO LIFT RESTRICTIONS ON ARAB AIRLINERS.(Brief Article)
- According to Al-Hayat newspaper (October 24, 2002), participants in the First "Arab Conference for Liberalizing Air Transport Sector" urged the lifting of restrictions and obstacles imposed on airline companies in the Arab World. The Secretary General of the Arab Air Transport Association, Abdul-Wahhab Tofaha, said that...
- Research articles 2002-10-27
- Airbus will reveal plan for super-jumbo: Aircraft would seat at
- AIRBUS will unveil plans next week for its own super-jumbo airliner, which will be built if a deal to build an aircraft jointly with Boeing falls through. Jean Pierson, chairman, said the four-engine, double-decker aircraft, codenamed A3XX, would seat at least 600 people, compared with fewer than...
- Research articles 1994-06-04
- Lockerbie and Libyan oil
- London vehemently denies that. But France, Italy and Switzerland have done just that as Europe strives to cut its dependency on natural gas supplies from an increasingly assertive Russia. And the United States would like nothing better than to gets its oil companies back into Libya, where they ruled the...
- News items 2009-08-30
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