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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Some auto companies have incorporated car sharing elements into their new business enterprises. However, the company pulled the plug on U.S.

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What Passengers Need to Know After the Boeing 737 Max 9 Incident

Baua Electric

After an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner’s fuselage tore off midair on Friday and caused an emergency landing in Portland, Ore., United Airlines operates 79, the most of any airline, and Alaska has 65 — their combined fleets represent about 70 percent of the jets in service. What is the history of Boeing Max planes?

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Airlines Hoping for More Boeing Jets Could Be Waiting Awhile

Baua Electric

That announcement came about three weeks after a panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 body shortly after takeoff, terrifying passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight and forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing at the Portland International Airport in Oregon. order would affect plans for their fleets for the next decade — or longer.

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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; Aero/cooling: Auto Research Center, CD-adapco, Freight Wing, Lang Mekra, Modine, TitanX, Truck-Lite. Fleet: Schneider, Walmart. Engines Fleets Fuel Efficiency Heavy-duty'

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F.A.A. Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design

Baua Electric

said the investigation stemmed from the loss of a fuselage panel of a Boeing 737 Max 9 operated by Alaska Airlines shortly after it took off on Friday from Portland, Ore., The plane returned to Portland for an emergency landing. said that after the Portland incident, it was notified of additional issues with other Max 9 planes.

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Boeing Again Under Scrutiny After Latest 737 Max Problem

Baua Electric

The plane landed safely, but the event, on a flight from Portland, Ore., Another version of the Max, a 737 Max 8, was involved in two crashes that killed hundreds of people in 2018 and 2019 and led to a worldwide grounding of that plane. to Ontario, Calif., Alaska Airlines has 65 Max 9 planes, while United Airlines has 79.

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Cockpit Recording’s Erasure Hampers Boeing 737 Max 9 Investigation

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last month proposed 25-hour recorders on new planes but argued that adding them to the existing fleet of U.S. The chairwoman of the safety board, Jennifer Homendy, said the agency’s investigators had conducted 10 investigations since 2018 in which the cockpit voice recorder had been written over, with critical recordings lost forever.

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