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January 31, 2005

Big Cocaine Stash Found On Plane

MIA-Bound Aircraft From Venezuela Was Diverted To TUL For Maintenance

The US Attorney's office in Tulsa, OK, isn't saying whose airplane it was, but ramp workers at Tulsa International found $250,000 worth of cocaine hidden inside an Airbus A300. The 15 kilos of coke were found in neatly-wrapped plastic packages, along with at least one other package of marijuana.

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What's So Great About Eight?

Why Boeing Really Changed The 7E7 To 787

By ANN Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien The Boeing suits will tell you that the 787 Dreamliner's nomenclature change was all about Boeing tradition. Tradition, from the company that told engineers in Seattle "move to Long Beach or you're fired?" The airplane company that moved its headquarters to a city that doesn't even have a decent airport, or a clue about how to operate one if they did? The outfit that has consolidated a hundred years of American aviation know-how, in order to get beaten like Mike Tyson's ex by a ponderous European government operation, Airbus?

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UPS Secures 11 Boeing MD-11 Freighters

15 Of 28 MD-11s Now In Service For Big Brown

UPS says it will acquire 11 pre-owned Boeing MD-11 aircraft to expand the capacity of its air network.

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