It is going to use its talents to manufacture fiber-composite airplane engine cowls.

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How about an airplane engine or an industrial lathe?

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Since Oct. 13, when a propeller plane crash in Papua New Guinea killed 28 passengers, nobody has died in an airliner, which is generally defined as a commercial, multi-engine airplane carrying 14 or more passengers.

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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine.

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He told the audience, comprised mainly of young Palantir software engineers, that humans are still using many of the same fundamental technologies invented in the past couple of centuries, like the internal combustion engine or the airplane.

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"When the engine failed, the airplane started to turn to the right and started to roll, " said Haynes.

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Last month, Brock piloted a single-engine, turbo-prop airplane to California, carrying 20 dental chairs and other supplies for RAM's 663rd mission.

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Transformative inventions--the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, automobile, airplane, radio and television, computer and Internet and so on--require constant investment.

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With a 225hp Continental aircraft engine, 21-foot wingspan and an airplane-shaped body, the Flarecraft can travel 350 miles in three and a half hours on 47 gallons of fuel.

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He singled airplane manufacturer Sukhoi Company, saying Russian made aircraft should be competitive with their foreign rivals in terms of engine noise, fuel economy and flight distance.

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