787 In Flight The final Boeing 787 Dreamliner to join the flight test fleet made its first flight Oct. 4 from Paine Field in Everett, Wash.
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After delays (so many delays), the Boeing 787 Dreamliner finally made its first commercial flight, jetting from Tokyo to Hong Kong. According to the AP, the plane was mostly full of reporters and enthusiasts, some of whom paid thousands of dollars to be included on the maiden flight.
Plane Crazy: This Dreamliner passes the wing flex test with flying colours
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Massage chairs, personal attendants and lie-flat beds - features now regarded as the norm in international first-class travel. Sure, it makes a long-haul flight a little - or, a lot - more bearable, but how much is too much?
Saarland University's Holger Hermanns and the Wireless Bike Brake
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As the world goes increasingly wireless, we've learned to tolerate a certain degree of failure in our wireless systems--like when your computer just won't sync up with the wireless internet at the cafe, or when our phones drop a call. But what about situations when wireless systems simply cannot fail? A failure rate of zero is tough to achieve in any system, but computer scientists at Saarland University in Germany have demonstrated a wireless bicycle brake that works 99.999999999997 percent of the time.