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How Spantech built an A380-sized hangar in less than six months 

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We do things differently; we first assemble the ceiling of the hangar on the ground,” he said. In Teruel, for example, each of the modules we’ve used to build the ceiling measures five by 95 meters. And then we lift it.” This is laid out in modules, which are like the ribs of the structure.

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Turbulence Shuts Down Engine On SAS A330

AV Web

Video shows passengers being lifted in their seats to the limits of their belts and service items hitting the ceiling. A few unbelted people were also reportedly launched skyward but there were no serious injuries.

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The anatomy of a commercial flight – all you ever wanted to know:   Part two   

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While most of it tends to be hidden away either in the cabin ceiling space or under the cabin floor panels, some of it – particularly the air conditioning riser ducts – is fitted in the cabin walls at certain intervals, making the inclusion of a window at that position impossible.

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator

Vintage Aviation News

The Davis Wing allowed for higher speeds and added lift at relatively low angles of attack. In January 1939, the Army Air Corps formally invited Consolidated to submit a design study for a bomber with longer range, higher speed and greater ceiling than the B-17, and the Consolidated Model 32 would be developed as the XB-24.

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The Labor of Love That Gave a ‘Graf Zeppelin II’ Model Lift

Flying Magazine

The ceiling of my home office looks like an airshow—with no fewer than five airships on display. So imagine how impressed I was by the scratch-built model of the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II hanging from the ceiling of the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They range from the Graf Zeppelin to the Zeppelin NT , and are kitbuilt.

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Intrepid Museum Acquire Iconic FG-1D Corsair

Vintage Aviation News

Its journey continued when the aircraft was flown via helicopter lift from NAS Pensacola to Smyrna, Texas, in May 1980. 92013 was relocated to the Washington Navy Yard, where it was suspended from the ceiling and displayed prominently as 17649, nicknamed “Big Hog.” There, it underwent an extensive rebuild by Stones River Air Service.

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Today in Aviation History: Loss of USS Macon

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Though the German Zeppelins were inflated with hydrogen, which was a more readily available and lighter lifting gas, it was flammable when mixed with oxygen, which doomed many a Zeppelin to a fiery end. While flying high over West Texas, the sun heated and expanded the helium lifting gas, forcing the Macon to rise up.

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