Tag: airplanes

By Tracy Compton,  Renton Reporter Staff Writer With the sight of the Chinook helicopter circling and landing at Renton Municipal Airport, the message was pretty clear to the Boeing Co. officials on-hand: we salute you. That’s the message Jordan Hill, a 737 line worker, wanted to convey to his managers and co-workers on Friday evening, May 2. […]

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Pilots flying over the Ivanpah solar energy plant in northeast San Bernardino County have complained of “nearly blinding” glare from the sun’s reflection off fields of mirrors, federal documents show. The $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Electric Generation System is the largest of its kind in the world. The plant uses 173,500 garage door-sized mirrors to […]

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