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Be on the world economy? ash now stretches 30,000 feet in the air and british authorities say air space will remain restricted till tomorrow and now word that british airways plan to test a 747 over british and irish air space. this comes after the danish airline klm flew a 737 through the ash with no problem and others below it. laura, the question a lot of people want to know. >> absolutely. there is a lot of work being done by many airlines to try to figure out how to get these stranded passe...

Midwest, specifically, montana are growing 4 to 5,000 acres of that camelina plant and will produce 400,000 gallons of the fuel and that is what they are working on now and the flight will last about an hour and 35 minutes, roughly about that time, and it will come back here, as i understand it, supposed to make several test flights, and the engineers are all looking at this, a good day for the air force. back to you. bill: thank you, orlando, changing times with the u.s. military for all of us,...

Much fuel as you can out of the airplane. the running joke, when you run out of gas and the engine stops its going to get really quiet except for all the screaming. what makes the 787 a much better airplane, its supposed to be more fuel efficient with the engines, more fuel efficient with its systems. the big thing and one of the reasons its been delayed its built out of what are called composites, not aluminum. historically, airplanes in tis country were built out of aluminum and titanium and c...

Through flight instruments. >> theyve done several test flights. in fact they had one today but this has been delayed, the actual launch has been delayed. whats that mean? >> its delayed for a variety of reasons, one of which is the plane has been put together in a variety of countries around the world. parts are shipped for assembly. theyve had problems there. they dont build it in the hangar anymore. they had a machinist strike in 2008, i believe, and that slowed things down a little bit. >> y...

Today. they had 15 consecutive successful test flights but none had been manned. this crew were really guinea pigs, and at that press conference i had the opportunity to ask bezos about what his next steps were. take a listen to what he had to say. >> so im going to split my time between blue origin and the bezos earth fund. the bezos earth fund is about climate change and sustainability, and that is -- those two things. and there will be a third thing and maybe a fourth thing, but i dont know w...

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Research ship in antarctica will remain hunkered down, at least for now. whiteout conditions are keeping a chinese helicopter from landing at the site. weather conditions arent expected to improve until at least tomorrow. when they do, the plan is for the chinese helicopter to take all 52 passengers to its vessel while all 22 crew members remain with the ship as icebreakers try to reach it. the ship has been stranded since christmas eve. a california state judge extends life support for a teen...

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