Based on Béteille’s market research, the A300B was optimised for fuel efficiency. The team stripped out unnecessary weight by using composite materials and raised the cabin floor to add cargo space. Hawker Siddeley’s wings, which would go on to influence industry standards, were designed with a curved shape on top to reduce air resistance, allowing greater lift and fuel efficiency. At a time when almost every commercial jet had three or four engines, Airbus opted for a twin-engine design. The plane could theoretically fly on one and the company concluded that only a single extra engine was needed to provide redundancy for safety. The much cheaper twin-engine design is now the industry standard, even for ultra long-haul flights.
Measured as a percentage of total gross patient revenue (charges), total uncompensated health care at GMS hospitals was 1.6 percent in FY 2023 and 1.9 percent in FY 2024. Specialty hospitals’ total uncompensated care increased from 1.7 percent in FY 2023 to 1.9 percent in FY 2024. For all hospitals combined, this measure increased from 1.6 percent in FY 2023 to 1.9 percent in FY 2024.
Media coverage focused on the 40% jump in pre-tax profits compared to the previous year. But in truth, that statistic said as much about the difficulties Ryanair had with revenue last year, due to a much publicised battle with online travel agents. With those issues now behind them, today’s results demonstrated a strong recovery.
From the 1980s Europe began legislating on topics with little to no connection to economic integration or peace – the amount of fruit in marmalade, the conditions under which a piece of clothing could be considered sustainable, or what constitutes appropriate political advertisement. What started as functional integration – removing barriers to trade – morphed into the superstition of regulation for the sake of integration. Each new regulatory text justified the next, creating a governance culture where ‘more Europe’ became the answer to every question, regardless of whether European intervention added value.
The Dutch then entered a dialogue with Zhang Xuezheng, the founder of Wingtech and chief executive of Nexperia in the Netherlands, to ensure the company’s independence. Demands included the establishment of an independent supervisory board and a requirement that Zhang no longer act as both CEO and head of human resources.
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As soon as the AWACS spotted the aircraft they informed NATO at the Combined Air Operations Centre in Udem, Germany right on the border with the Netherlands, which ordered two Italian F-35’s to take off from their Estonian air base at Amari on the coast. They took off under compete operational silence. This was done through NATO secure encryption and the F-35’s were operating without radars active and without alerting the Russians. The F-35’s however could see exactly where the Russians were and what they were doing via NATO Datalink-16 shared from the AWACS. No need to use their own radars, which made them effectively invisible to the Zaslon radar on the Foxhounds.