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Technology

Good News, Aerospace Dept.

By James Fallows
June 15, 2012
Saved Stories

Someone has to keep looking on the bright side:

1) Synergy aircraft. This had a successful Kickstarter launch, and it looks very promising.

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2) Equator aircraft. You have to like this one too.

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3) Lisa airplanes, from France. The company's motto is, A new way of life. To which I say, d'accord!

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4) The "rice ball," from VW's Chengdu division. This is the kind of thing I was talking about.

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