Increasingly demanding community noise targets are promoting noise performance ever higher on the list of airliner design drivers.
Also, optimized aircraft speed [5], has also improved the fuel efficiency of airliners [4, 65].
Until now, GECAS, the world's largest single buyer of airliners, has purchased or financed only GE-powered new airliners.
Virgin, with a young, efficient fleet of airliners, does well in most of them.
An improved fuel efficiency of airliners, and the consequent lower carbon emission, will reduce the operating cost of an airline along with environmental impact [62].
Boeing and Airbus do it all the time with new generations of airliners, for instance.
·Reinforced polymer composites used for thin-film membranes on the surface of airliners and spacecraft.
North Korea was put on the list of terrorism sponsors because of its suspected involvement in the bombing of a South Korean airliner in the skies near Myanmar, the former Burma, in 1987.
LONDON — Acting on intelligence failures exposed by the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a major tightening of British aviation security measures on Wednesday, including the creation of a new no-fly list of terrorist suspects similar to one maintained by the United States.
The recent disclosures included the revelation that a plot by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda to bomb an airliner had been foiled because of penetration by a double agent, details about the joint American-Israeli computer virus called Stuxnet that sabotaged Iran's nuclear centrifuges, and an account of Mr. Obama's role in approving a "kill list" of terrorism suspects for drone strikes.
