Shares of U.S. plane maker, Boeing Corporation and its suppliers fell yesterday, as a 737-800 aircraft of China Eastern Airlines, with 132 people on board, crashed in the mountains of southern China. The plane crashed after a sudden descent from cruising altitude. Media reported that rescue workers had found no sign
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African Development Bank (AfDB), a continental financial institution, has said it secured $15.6 billion for the construction of the Lagos-Abidjan highway corridor, that would link Nigeria to Ivory Coast, to ease transportation across West Africa. Akinwumi Adesina, president of the AfDB, disclosed this during the 2021 Africa Investment Forum virtual boardroom
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Driving at night brings its own risks when compared to daylight driving, not least when heading into a blind bend on an unlit road. Moreover, conventional headlights always face forward and so as one steers into such a bend there is a blind spot to the left or right until
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The airline industry has praised the government’s decision to scrap Covid restrictions at airports. The UK is one of the first major economies to remove all its remaining travel restrictions even though Covid infections are on the rise once again. The last week has seen a 25 per cent increase in
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Aviation fuel marketers in the country have given insight into why they give priority to foreign airlines as against local airlines, saying since the foreign airlines pay for Jet A1 in dollars, most marketers quickly sell to them to get dollars to import more.” According to the marketers, airlines get aviation
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What if both the water and carbon dioxide (CO2) produced from a vehicle’s exhaust system could be captured and used for growing food? Repurposing these two wasted products would be a game changer for reducing the carbon footprint of roadway traffic and helping the agricultural industry feed a growing human
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BARELY 24 hours after the price of aviation fuel rose by 35 per cent from N430/litre to N580/litre, oil marketers on Wednesday predicted that the price of the product might hit N700/litre by next week if the global crude oil price continued to fluctuate. The National Operations Controller, Independent Petroleum Marketers
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Nigeria’s start-up airline, Green Africa Airways, plans to train 1,440 technical personnel in the next 10 years to bridge the dearth of manpower in the industry. The airline disclosed this at the launch of an initiative called ‘g-Future’, saying the first set of people to benefit from the initiative are pilots,
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Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) is to work with its new owner, Australian mining group Fortescue, to develop a zero-emission ‘Infinity Train’. The regenerating battery-electric iron-ore train will use gravitational energy to recharge its battery electric systems without any additional charging requirements for the return trip to reload. Fortescue has significant iron-ore mining
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A series of experiments using paper airplanes reveals new aerodynamic effects, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings enhance our understanding of flight stability and could inspire new types of flying robots and small drones. "The study started with simple curiosity about what makes a good paper airplane and specifically
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