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.
Not exact matches
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.