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Key Takeaways:

  • The Air Force is withholding details regarding the crash of a B-2 bomber on takeoff in Guam, from which both pilots safely ejected.
  • Flight recorders have been recovered from a Venezuelan ATR 42 airliner that crashed in the Andes, killing all 46 occupants.
  • Virgin Atlantic conducted a demonstration flight using a Boeing 747 powered by biofuels, but environmental groups criticized it as irrelevant, stating that growth in air travel would negate any environmental gains.
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The Air Force is not releasing any details about the potential cause of the crash of a B-2 bomber at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam Saturday. The aircraft crashed on takeoff and both pilots ejected …

The flight recorders have been recovered from a Venezuelan airliner that crashed in the Andes last week. All 46 people aboard the ATR 42 died …

In an oddly ironic publicity event on Sunday, Virgin Atlantic Airlines loaded five people and a tank full of coconut and babassu oil [one of four] aboard a Boeing 747 for 90-minute flight to show that biofuels will work on commercial aircraft. Environmental groups dismissed the flight as irrelevant since even if the whole airline industry ran on obscure oils, the growth in air travel would wipe out any environmental gains within 10 years.

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