The airplane that "vanished" was found... sorta

Quoted: Mostly small parts of the Adam Air Boeing 737-400 that vanished from radar screens on New Year's Day with 102 people aboard were found in the past few days at roughly the same location, floating in the sea or washed up on beaches.

Green Monster, funny.

Quoted: Calling it the Dreamlifter, Boeing unveiled the ungainly-looking LCF's new paint scheme. While it still can't be called beautiful in any traditional sense, the new ...

Yesterday, Boeing's (NYSE: BA) wholly owned subsidiary Spectrolab announced that it had developed a new solar cell that can convert 40.7% of the sunlight it gathers into electricity. This is an impressive achievement and a significant improvement over the 36% efficiency level that Sharp (OTC BB: SHCAY.PK) announced it had achieved with its new solar concentrator technology.

The development is significant for a couple of reasons

Neat!

Quoted: With the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner only about eight months away, The Boeing Co. conducted a "virtual" rollout of the plane Wednesday before several thousand 787 workers here.

My brother's best friend John is stripping the original vtec mini to mod it, and I'm trying to convince him to make it tow a Boeing 747 too :)

Quoted: Yes, you read that right - a Volkswagen Touareg V10 TDI has successfully towed a Boeing 747 along the runway at Dunsfold Aerodrome. Neither of the vehicles was exactly standard; the Boeing's engines had previously been replaced by dummy ones for the making of a movie, but its standard weight of 155 tonnes was restored through the use of water ballast.

Oh my holy FSM, 78 percent decline is not a slide, it's the Goliath ride drop.

Quoted: Boeing, which runs by far the largest pension and retiree-health plans in the Northwest, would have taken the largest hit — losing $8.7 billion, or 78 percent, of its shareholder equity. At other companies, the impact varies from substantial to negligible.

Quoted: Boeing and other Northwest companies say the change won't have much real-world impact on their operations or profits. But analysts who've been tracking the reforms say they could have dramatic impacts on investor and corporate behavior.

I don't ever want to work on the military side of Boeing (though I acknowledge the line here is fuzzy), but working on a space plane is pretty neat.

Quoted: EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE - The Air Force says it is developing a computer-controlled, unmanned space plane for experiments and testing, with landings possible at Edwards Air Force Base.

Quoted: The first spacecraft since the shuttles to have the ability to return space experiments to Earth, the new Orbital Test Vehicle would be a space-going version of a computer-controlled engineless craft called the X-37 that recently completed flight tests at Edwards.

I don't want my own private jet, I want my own teleporter, (or Floo Powder), much faster, and of course, takes much less gas.

Quoted: Industry insiders say VIP jet sales have heated up in the last few years as an improving global economy has pulled commercial airlines out of the industrywide slump that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The improving economy has also forced business leaders to fly more often and over longer distances than in the past.

Quoted: “If you’re an executive and you need to visit several sites ... especially today with all the security hassles, it could easily take you a couple days to visit a couple of places,” said David Velupillai, a marketing manager for Airbus’ executive and private aviation unit. “But in a biz jet you could do both in the same day.”

More signs of "soft" capitalism in Vietnam

Quoted: Decision 259/2006/QD-TTg regulates that holding company Vietnam Airlines has the right to make investments, manage investment capital, directly produce and provide air transportation services, aircraft and engine maintenance, and import and export aircraft.

Quoted: Previously the carrier had to seek the go-ahead from government for its master business plan.