It's another step in GE's efforts to focus on less glamorous but theoretically more profitable ventures such as manufacturing medical imaging equipment, airplane engines and electrical generators.

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In partnership with Shanghai Airport Authority (SAA) and co-hosted by the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) and the Shanghai Exhibition Center (SEC), ABACE 2013 will bring together latest aviation products and equipment, sessions for potential and current business airplane users, presentations from top aviation officials in various state governments from the region, and much more.

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Tests have already proven that the sorts of devices that airplane passengers use are unlikely to affect any kind of navigational equipment, but a better-safe-than-sorry mentality still prevails amongst regulators.

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Its ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly like an airplane, combined with its capacity to haul more troops and equipment farther, faster and with greater survivability than existing helicopters ensures that it will be of enormous value in future actions requiring long-range, swift and stealthy projection of ground forces.

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And then I assume that I am wrong and that it will propagate to antoher and then I design the enclosure and the redundancy of the equipment to assume that all the cells are involved and the airplane needs to be able to play through that.

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