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A Badly Damaged 33-Year-Old United 767 Comes Back From The Dead

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Eight months after one of United Airlines’ Boeing 767-300ERs suffered substantial frame damage during landing, the aircraft lives to see another day. (www.gatechecked.com) More...

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Travel April Fools’ Day 2024 Round Up

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Another year, another round of April Fools’ jokes. It’s that time when corporate marketing departments can go wild, posting their cringe content for a few laughs. (www.gatechecked.com) More...

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Emirates Successfully Flies Damaged Airbus A380 from Moscow to Dubai, Circumventing Western Sanctions

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Emirates airline has ingeniously circumvented Western sanctions on Russia by flying a significantly damaged Airbus A380 back to Dubai. The aircraft encountered an unusual accident at Moscow Domodedovo Airport last Wednesday, where it was hit by a service truck, causing substantial damage to its undercarriage just before a scheduled flight to Dubai. (www.airguide.info) More...

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How Hard is it to Delete a Docker Tag?

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FlightAware Angle of Attack: How Hard is it to Delete a Docker Tag? Chris Roberts 01 Apr 2024 • 8 min read So how hard could deleting a little ol' Docker tag be? This is just the tag, mind you, not the underlying image itself. I would expect our periodic garbage collection to handle image deletion once there are no tags left referencing it. Well it turns out that the Docker Registry API specification entirely lacked a tag deletion endpoint until 2021. And even 3 years later, our Container… (flightaware.engineering) More...

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Supersonic planes will replace conventional jets in our lifetime, says aviation CEO

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”Aerodynamics, materials, propulsion There have been only two civil supersonic planes: the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 and the British-French Concorde, which flew for the last time in October 2003, more than two decades ago. Now, the industry is abuzz with supersonic and hypersonic projects – from NASA and Lockheed Martin’s “quiet” X-59 aircraft, which limits sonic boom, to Atlanta-based Hermeus, which this week unveiled its first flyable aircraft. “The advent of digital engineering is a huge enabler… (www.cnn.com) More...

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United Airlines is asking pilots to take time off in May because of a shortage of new Boeing planes

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United Airlines is asking its pilots to take time off in May because of delays in receiving new planes that the airline ordered from Boeing, which is struggling with production due to manufacturing problems. A United spokesperson said Monday that the offer is voluntary. (apnews.com) More...

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