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In a concrete hangar in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico,
Katrina Mayes is working with precision and purpose. Wisps of smoke surround her, wafting off the dry ice she is using to jerry-rig a cardboard vaccine carrier. Her task: to create a vapor phase vent to moderate the temperature of the cooling container from around minus 80 degrees Celsius (for storing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vials) to minus 15 degrees Celsius (to accommodate supplies of the Moderna vaccine).
At 29, the biochemist and virologist has spent much of her professional life indoors, where the U.S. government has entrusted her to handle some of the world’s most lethal pathogens including Ebola, Lassa fever, and Nipah viruses at top-secret Biosafety Level Four facilities. “I shower six times a day,” she tells me. “I’m the cleanest person you’ll ever meet.” Her winning smile and gallows humor mask the gravity of her work, which has involved diffusing poison-laced letters that have been mailed to federal buildings.
LONDON – Tel Aviv-based Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will convert a Boeing 777-300ER to a cargo plane for the first time.
The aircraft will be called Boeing 777-300ERSF (which stands for Special Freighter). The conversion took place in close contact with well-known American leasing company GECAS.
On April 15, Israel’s Independence Day, the still unconverted aircraft made its first flight over the skies of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and Masada for two hours, followed by a Gulfstream G280.
GECAS IAI announced in October 2019 the launch of the Boeing 777-300ERSF, and the establishment of a passenger to freighter conversion program. Dubbed “The Big Twin” denoting its status as the largest ever twin-engined freighter the initiative is jointly funded by GECAS and IAI.
By David Kaminski-Morrow2021-04-16T09:20:00+01:00
Israel Aerospace Industries has flown a Boeing 777-300ER set for freighter conversion in a formation to mark the anniversary of Israeli independence.
The company says the 15 April flypast – which took place over several locations including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and Masada – included a pair of Gulfstream G280 executive jets flying alongside the 777.
Israel Aerospace Industries says the ‘Big Twin’ programme, jointly run with US lessor GECAS, to develop a supplemental type certificate for a 777-300ERSF freighter conversion has passed the halfway point.
As a result the initiative is moving beyond the planning phase into the stage of physical modification of the General Electric GE90-powered aircraft.
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