Sentences with phrase «aircraft maker boeing»

World's first manned airplane powered by hydrogen takes flight U.S. aircraft maker Boeing announced this week that it had completed the world's first manned flights in an airplane powered by pollution - free hydrogen.

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May 1 - Plane maker Boeing Co said on Tuesday it would buy aerospace parts company KLX Inc for about $ 3.2 billion in cash to expand its aircraft services business.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports the latest on Boeing's takeover interest in Brazillian aircraft maker Embraer.

In response to a trade case filed by the American jet maker Boeing, the United States Commerce Department ruled that Bombardier's CSeries aircraft, a smaller, regional aircraft that entered service last year, had received subsidies of 219.63 percent of the plane's sales price, and it said it would begin collecting duties equivalent to that amount.

He said Airbus supporting the C Series and Embraer working with Boeing isn't necessarily negative as long as a couple of competitors remain in the marketplace that allow smaller aircraft makers to continue innovating.

Airplane makers are already building more fuel efficient aircraft, such as the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350, and they are expected to already meet the proposed ICAO emissions standards.

With New Zealand's government declaring itself to actively become the world's first carbon neutral nation with sustainability underpinning the «four pillars of the economy, society, the environment, and nationhood,» Air New Zealand is planning to launch the first test of a commercial 747 airliner flying partially on biofuels, as part of a deal between the airline, engine maker Rolls - Royce and aircraft manufacturer Boeing to study greener flying, with the first flight slated to take off late 2008 or early 2009 (without passengers).

As the second - largest maker of large commercial jets in the world behind Airbus, Boeing had enjoyed its position as being American's sole provider of aircraft over the past two decades.