Giant zeppelin completes maiden flight
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An enormous white zeppelin described as the world's largest successfully completed its maiden flight on Friday in Japan.
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The space shuttle Atlantis rumbled into space on Thursday afternoon, carrying the European scientific laboratory Columbus to the International Space Station.
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The costliest international warplane project, the F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter, safely completed its first test flight on Friday, advancing a $276.5 billion program financed by the United States and eight other countries.
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ON BOARD FLIGHT SQ380 - The world's largest jetliner made aviation history yesterday, completing its first commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney with 455 passengers, some of them in luxury suites and double beds.
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The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, leaves Singapore for Sydney on its first commercial flight.
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The biggest passenger airliner the world has ever seen will roll out of its hangar for the first time next week to proud smiles from European leaders who backed its construction -- and a scowl from the US company Boeing, whose king-of-the-skies status has been lost.
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Airbus unveiled the world's biggest passenger jet in a glitzy ceremony in which the leaders of France, Britain, Germany and Spain hailed Europe's victory over the United States as the new king of the commercial skies.
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The world's biggest ever passenger plane is to be unveiled in an extravagant ceremony in southwest France attended by the leaders of France, Germany, Britain and Spain and 5,000 VIP guests.
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By Mike Schneider Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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MOJAVE, CALIF. - A privately built and operated spacecraft roared out of the atmosphere on Wednesday with a historic flight that brings the team one step closer to winning a $10-million US prize.
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The record-setting speed by the X-43A experimental scramjet engine on Tuesday marked the final operational mission for NASA&#39;s B-52B test aircraft.
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A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world was inaugurated by President Jacques Chirac in southern France -- a spectacular feat of engineering that will carry motorists at 270 metres (885 feet) above the valley of the river Tarn.
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The world's biggest-ever passenger plane has been unveiled in France at a ceremony attended by the leaders of France, Germany, Britain and Spain and 5,000 VIP guests.
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Led Zeppelin perform their first concert for 19 years, before thousands of fans at London's O2 arena.
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Climbing to space like a winged corkscrew, SpaceShipOne successfully completed the first leg of its attempt for a $10-million prize Wednesday in a flight marked by an unexpected series of rolls.
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The world&#39;s first private spaceship has blasted into the final frontier for the second time in five days, snatching the nearly 14-million dollar prize and founding a new era of space tourism.
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The worldâs biggest jumbo jet landed safely in Sydney, ending its first commercial flight from Singapore.