Boeing proposes 787 battery fix to FAA

In a statement issued Friday afternoon, FAA said US deputy transportation secretary John Porcari, FAA administrator Michael Huerta and other officials from FAA met with senior Boeing executives “to discuss the status of ongoing work to address 787 battery issues.”

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Boeing Says Efficiencies On The Factory Floors Will Allow Hiring To Slow

Boeing says it plans to increase airliner production as airlines place major orders to replace older jets, but that efficiencies on its factory floors will allow it to slow the pace of hiring replacement workers.

In an interview with Dow Jones Newswires, Boeing VP for Marketing Randy Tinseth said that airline passenger growth is expected to continue to grow by about 5 percent this year, after a 6% jump last year, even with the global economic recovery continuing as a sluggish pace. Tinseth described the backlog of orders for new airliners as a "challenge"

But the Puget Sound Business Journal reports that Boeing's workforce will peak at about 83,000 this year, and then the pace of hiring will slow. The company will continue to replace retiring workers, but at a reduced pace from previous years.  READ MORE: AINOnline

Commercial Space Companies Buy NASA

Musk: "Commercial Space Will Be The Only Space"

ANN April 1st Special Edition

SpaceX founder Elon Musk (shown below, with friends, in Zero-G) announced April 1st that a consortium of commercial space companies have closed a deal with the federal government for the outright purchase of NASA.

The consortium is led by SpaceX and ULA, which both have operational boosters that are nearly ready to begin carrying humans into orbit. "The Obama administration was thrilled to be shed of the agency, which it saw as nothing more than a cost center," Musk said. "Between the ULA Atlas boosters which are very reliable, and with Falcon 9 nearly ready to begin operations, we just saw this as the right deal at the right time. In very short order, commercial space will be the only space."

Other consortium members include Virgin Galactic, which will become the suborbital research arm of the new CASA ... the Commercial Aeronautics and Space Association. Sierra Nevada Corp and XCOR will be combining their talents to produce the NextGen Space Shuttle to ferry astronauts back and forth between the ISS. "Relying on Russia to carry astronauts to ISS using 40-year-old Soyuz technology is just unacceptable," said Sierra Nevada Corp. CEO Faith Ozeman. "We know we can get people to ISS more efficiently, and since we now own the company, we know that we can accelerate the process of getting human-rated spacecraft flying in very short order. We expect to be flying to ISS in just a couple of years.

READ MORE:  AeroNews

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Autonomous Quadrotors Fly Amazing Formations

Roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP are able to get as many as 20 of their autonomous microcopters to fly in formation and perform complex maneuvers flawlessly.

In an impressive new video, the GRASP — General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception — team makes their swarm of flying microbots flip, change direction, navigate through obstacles and even fly figure-eights with jaw-dropping agility and precision.

READ MORE: Wired