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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The airline industry is trying to develop greener solutions for our air travel, but will it be enough? Sustainable, renewable, green: the buzz words of the environmentalists figured large at this week’s Dubai Air Show. At the last show two years ago, such things barely registered. This time we’ve …

Air Tractor’s AT-802U multi-mission aircraft WASHINGTON: Just as the Air Force’s long-delayed Light Attack Aircraft buy seemed to be actually moving forward, Texas-based Air Tractor has smacked the program with a protest — apparently in hopes of getting another chance for its militarized version of its AT-802 crop duster. Gen. Arnold Bunch, head of Air …

A massive sea and air search is underway off the Waterford coast for a man reported missing earlier this morning. A man is his mid-50’s has been missing from Stradbally since earlier today and a search was launched before midday. The Waterford Rescue Helicopter 117, as well as the lifeboats from both Tramore and Bonmahon …

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Pacific Air Forces hosted the sixth annual Science and Technology Information Exchange Meeting (STIEM) here Nov. 4-8. The Science and Technology Information Exchange Meeting brought together approximately 200 Defense Industry Partners, technologists and military service members to identify near-term solutions that address current mission challenges, mitigate threats and develop …

Durwood Zaelke’s eye for an environmental “quick fix” has arguably saved the world half a degree Celsius of warming. The environmental lawyer is the little-known driving force behind a key amendment to what’s been called the most successful climate treaty ever. The BBC’s Hannah Long-Higgins meets him and finds that there are deeply personal reasons …

November 9, 2019 Posted: November 9, 2019 Updated: 8:18 AM KUSI Newsroom SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Breaking and Entering Christmas is a long-standing San Diego tradition where Star 94.1’s Tommy Sablan and his team help a family in need have a great Christmas. This year, Breaking and Entering Christmas will air December 2 at 6 …

Automotive and industrial emissions fill the air with nitrogen, sulphur dioxides, and “black carbon,” the latter of which includes tiny particles that penetrate deep into the lungs. Over the past days, levels in Delhi have exceeded 10 times what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deems safe. (The idea that any level is “safe” is disputed, …

Air Education and Training Command Public Affairs / Published November 05, 2019 AUSTIN, Texas (AFNS) — Project NEXUS, a beta test program designed with the intent to fuel organic technology problem solving efforts for Airmen in their day-to-day workplaces, graduated its first class Nov. 4. The graduation ceremony saw 18 students complete the …

Celebrated Indian classical musician Shubhendra Rao on Friday night took to social media and accused Air India of breaking his sitar. Mr. Rao accused the airline of mishandling his sitar and said the staff should be sensitised on how to handle the music instruments. In a lengthy Facebook post he said, “There it happens again! …

The exact details of these experiments are a closely guarded secret. In a statement, the Air Force only revealed that the program “performs risk reduction, experimentation and concept of operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies.” This is the fifth X-37B space plane to be launched into orbit over the past decade, with each flight …