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Southwest Airlines ‘green plane’; saves 9,500 gallons of fuel per year

Southwest Airlines “green plane,” a Boeing 737-700 that’s 472 lbs. lighter than a conventional model and saves 9,500 gallons of jet fuel per year. It’s no secret that the airplanes are some of the worst polluting transportation methods available. According to Outside.com, airlines account for about two percent of “all glacier-melting, polar bear-killing emissions released into our...

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Demand soars for airport body scanners built by L-3 in St. Petersburg

By Steve Huettel, Times Staff Writer June 27, 2010 Hours after news broke about the Nigerian man who tried to bomb a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit last Christmas, Bob Lancaster got a call at home from his bosses at L-3 Communications’ corporate headquarters. Their question: How fast could he ramp up production of airport body scanners — the high-tech machines designed to spot...

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Learn how to Lighten your Load!

There’s no question: overpacking tops the list of biggest travel mistakes. Thus this Web site, which offers exhaustive — some might say exhausting! — detail on the art and science of traveling light, going pretty much anywhere, for an indefinite length of time, with no more than a single carry-on-sized bag. Of all the travel skills you might acquire, travelling light is the one most...

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Leading Edge Goes Green with Hi-Tech Water Treatment Solution

It may be hard to say, but electrocoagulation is really making things easy for Leading Edge and the local environment. Electrocoagulation is a state-of-the-art process in which heavy metals, oils, grease and other contaminants are broken down and extracted from waste water, rendering it so harmless that the water can be flushed into a regular sewer system. As the world’s largest aircraft painting...

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Leading Edge Transforms the Entire Northwest Fleet to Delta Colors in Just 14 Months

2008 marked nearly 14 years that Leading Edge had been painting Northwest Airlines. Over this period hundreds of aircraft were painted by Leading Edge through the old livery known as the “Bowling Shoe” to the new silver mica that debuted in 2006. In mid-2008 painting of the fleet was halted as negotiations for a merger with Delta became serious and in December 2008, Leading Edge got the call that...