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Beancounter takes flight
2015-02-22 22:54:39| Airlines - Topix.net
Walter Dias enjoys the distinction of making aviation history in 2001 when he and his team launched the first ever non-stop direct 16-hour flight between Hong Kong and New York. "It was the largest commercial flight at the time as it brought together people in two of the world's major financial centers.
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Singapore Airlines takes flight with tablet app
2015-02-12 02:24:58| Airlines - Topix.net
Cabin crew on Singapore Airlines are creating digital voyage reports and improving customer service during each flight thanks to a new tablet app. The TCS CrewCollab app - jointly developed by Tata Consulting Services and the airline - lets crew view information that was previously in paper format, such as customer service and crew lists, and other information on tablets during flights.
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Sustainability takes flight with passport program at Capital Pacific Bank
2015-02-09 20:07:02| PortlandOnline
We sat down with Kristen Connor, Senior Vice President & Client Service Officer at Capital Pacific Bank, to hear first-hand about the program.
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Tata-Singapore Airlines' Vistara takes off today; first flight from Delhi to Mumbai
2015-01-09 06:43:58| Steel - Topix.net
Vistara will be the third full-service carrier in the country, after state-run Air India and private carrier Jet Airways. Tata-SIA joint venture airline Vistara is all ready for take off today with its first flight from Delhi to Mumbai, ushering in a heightened competition in the domestic aviation market.
NASAs electric vertical-takeoff airplane takes first flight, aims to eventually replace the helicopter
2014-08-20 17:36:00| Extremetech
It might look like some kind of crazy machination that adorned the cover of Popular Aviation back in the '60s, the flying machine pictured above is the real deal. Developed by NASA, GL-10 Greased Lightning is an unmanned hybrid-electric aircraft that can swivel its wings and engines -- into the vertical position for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), and then horizontal for conventional flight. The fairly recent advent of electric propulsion -- thanks in large to the growing power and energy density of batteries -- allows for some very efficient hybrid-electric aircraft designs that could finally replace the current (massively inefficient) king of VTOL: the helicopter.
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