The fuselages were headed to Renton, Washington, to be assembled into completed airliners.
From sentient marine mammals to apparently downed airliners and the drastic effects of climate change, the world's oceans, and what we do to them, may be the last great battleground.
Airliners are big-ticket items, sold to hard-nosed businesses at a rate of only a 1,000 a year, even in boom times like today.
Considering the technology embedded inside, they are also inexpensive: a new Phantom 3 can be had for about $1,000.Rather as Boeing did with commercial airliners in the 1930s, DJI is today leading the charge in transforming civilian-drone manufacturing from something for hobbyists into a proper business.
The spooks have foiled complex plots, such as the one in 2009 to bring down airliners in mid-Atlantic.
On September 11th, they used jet airliners, symbols of the West's mobile and technologically sophisticated society, as a weapon of war.
That did not quite pan out.It proved more difficult to equip earth-bound carriages with Wi-Fi than to do the same for around 1,000 airliners flying over America.
Most wings, whether on gliders or airliners, have a little downward twist (or "washout") built into them deliberately, so that their inner sections stall before their tips do.
The engines on airliners guzzle fuel on take-off.
The combined entity, which took United's name, has the biggest fleet of commercial airliners on the planet and flies to more destinations than any competitor.
The war spawned the Moscow theatre siege in 2002, suicide bombings of two airliners in August and the Beslan school atrocity in September.
