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After 61 years, Remember The Lost Heroes of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739

After 61 years, Remember The Lost Heroes of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739

Sixty-one years ago on March 16, 1962, Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 (FTLF 739) and its crew, departed on a secret mission sanctioned by President Kennedy, to fly to Vietnam. ... Continue reading

Sole-surviving Blenheim Bomber to fly in for Bicester Heritage’s Flywheel event

Sole-surviving Blenheim Bomber to fly in for Bicester Heritage’s Flywheel event

Blenheim will be leading the aviation display at its flagship Flywheel event on the 17th and 18th of June. The aircraft is the last Mk.I Blenheim known to exist anywhere in the world and it is the only Blenheim of any Mk still in airworthy condition, a suitably spectacular accolade as part of the best-preserved WW2 RAF ... Continue reading

The Auto Channel Network Is Going Places

The Auto Channel Network Is Going Places

Auto Central February 14, 2023; It has been reported that The Auto Channel is beginning implementation procedures with an as yet unnamed streaming service to add The Auto Channel, and its million pages of automotive content to the unnamed service's original content offerings The Auto Channel's exclusive hybrid system w ... Continue reading

United Airlines Joins 50 Million Dollar Venture To Produce (and Use) Sustainable Low Emission American Grown and Distilled Ethanol Fuels In Their Airplanes

United Airlines Joins 50 Million Dollar Venture To Produce (and Use) Sustainable Low Emission American Grown and Distilled Ethanol Fuels In Their Airplanes

United Airlines, Tallgrass, and Green Plains Inc. today announced a new joint venture – Blue Blade Energy – to develop and then commercialize a novel Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technology that uses ethanol as its feedstock. ... Continue reading

This Week in Transportation News: 10 Stories You Need to See

This Week in Transportation News: 10 Stories You Need to See

A roundup of the week's most newsworthy auto and transport industry press releases from PR Newswire, including Boeing's final 747 and Mazda's 2024 CX-90. NEW YORK, Feb. ... Continue reading

Toyota President Akio Toyoda Gives Up CEO Position Koji Sato Elevated

Toyota President Akio Toyoda Gives Up CEO Position Koji Sato Elevated

Toyota City, Japan, Jan. 26, 2023 – Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced today that it intends to implement changes to its executive structure effective April 1, 2023, and changes to its Board of Directors effective the date of its 119th Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting as described below. ... Continue reading

The Auto Channel, Automotive Content Channel- A Million Pages Archived By Single Topics (1993-Present)

The Auto Channel, Automotive Content Channel- A Million Pages Archived By Single Topics (1993-Present)

The Auto Channel Automotive Content Library and Archive — Find a 23 year old archive of millions of articles: news, video, opinion, how-to's, reviews, database info for every pinpointed topic, all in one place all free all here on The Auto Channel. ... Continue reading

Nutson's Weekly Auto New Round-up - January 1-7, 2023

Nutson's Weekly Auto New Round-up - January 1-7, 2023

Here are Larry's picks among the past week's important, relevant, semi-secret, or snappy automotive news, opinions and insider back stories ... Continue reading

A Dream Goes On Forever...We're Back! 30th Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show, April 30, 2023!

A Dream Goes On Forever...We're Back! 30th Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show, April 30, 2023!

This year’s spectacular show will be held on Sunday, April 30, a one-day mega-show, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Half Moon Bay Airport's Eddie Andreini Field, located in the picturesque seaside town of Half Moon Bay, CA about 20 miles south of San Francisco. ... Continue reading

Boeing, United Airlines Finalize 737 MAX and 787 Order, Including Record Purchase for 100 Dreamliners

Boeing, United Airlines Finalize 737 MAX and 787 Order, Including Record Purchase for 100 Dreamliners

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., Dec. 13, 2022 -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] and United Airlines [NASDAQ:UAL] today announced the carrier is investing in its future fleet with an order for 100 787 airplanes, with the option to purchase 100 more. ... Continue reading

United Airlines Unveils Historic Order to Purchase Up To 200 New Boeing Widebody Planes

United Airlines Unveils Historic Order to Purchase Up To 200 New Boeing Widebody Planes

Firm order for 100 new 787 Dreamliners - plus options to add 100 more - represents largest widebody aircraft order by a U.S. carrier in commercial aviation history Airline now expects to take delivery of about 700 new narrow and widebody aircraft by 2032, including an average of more than two every week in 2023 and thr ... Continue reading

Final Boeing 747 Airplane Leaves Everett Factory

Final Boeing 747 Airplane Leaves Everett Factory

EVERETT, Wash., Dec. 6, 2022 -- The last Boeing 747 left the company's widebody factory in advance of its delivery to Atlas Air in early 2023. ... Continue reading

STARLUX Takes Delivery of First A350-900

STARLUX Takes Delivery of First A350-900

STARLUX Airlines (SJX) took delivery of its first A350-900 today at Airbus Headquarters in Toulouse, France. ... Continue reading

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