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  2. Lift-on/lift-off - Wikipedia

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    Ships with cranes or other cargo handling equipment on-board are also termed geared vessels. As container ships usually have no on-board cranes or other mechanism to load or unload their cargo, they are therefore dependent on dockside container cranes to load and unload. However lift-on/lift-off vessels can load and unload their own cargo ...

  3. Worldwide Aeros Corp - Wikipedia

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    The cargo bay is located at the bottom of the aircraft cavity and is loaded by using a pulley system to load the cargo from the ground. At 1.8 million cubic feet, the cargo bay of the largest Aeroscraft design is much larger than that of any existing commercial freight aircraft (including the Boeing 747-8F and the Antonov 124 aircraft). [23]

  4. Spirit AeroSystems - Wikipedia

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    Spirit's primary competitors in the aerostructures market include Collins Aerospace, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Leonardo, and Triumph Group. Spirit AeroSystems was established in 2005 when Boeing spun-off its Wichita division to an investment firm. Boeing entered into an agreement to re-acquire Spirit in July 2024 for $4.7 billion.

  5. Under pressure on plane safety, Boeing is buying stressed ...

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    Boeing announced plans to acquire key supplier Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion, a move that it says will improve plane quality and safety amid increasing scrutiny by Congress, airlines and the ...

  6. Boeing is in talks to buy Wichita’s Spirit AeroSystems - AOL

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    Spirit shares jumped as much as 19% Friday in New York, after the Wall Street Journal reported earlier on the talks. Boeing fell as much as 2.3%. Boeing fell as much as 2.3%.

  7. Spirit AeroSystems To Lay Off Hundreds As Boeing Struggles ...

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    Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPR), a primary supplier of jet fuselages, is reducing its workforce by 400 to 450 employees at its Wichita, Kansas factory. The layoffs are a response to a ...

  8. Heavy lift - Wikipedia

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    Heavy lift transport of project cargo is done using cargo planes, which are one of the largest aircraft due to the size of the load these loads are carried to or from airports via road transport. In 2021 Gebrüder Weiss a logistics company chartered an Antonov An-225 Mriya world's largest cargo plane to transport project cargo from China to ...

  9. Boeing pumps cash into Spirit AeroSystems to shore up Wichita ...

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    Spirit projected in the filing a write-off of more than $100 million for losses in the third quarter on the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 jet programs, citing higher supply chain and labor costs.