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Pilotless Air Taxi Flies Public Route in Hong Kong
EHang's EH216-S, a two-seat pilotless eVTOL, has completed its first public flight in Hong Kong under a government low-altitude-economy trial.
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A suitcase comes out of the hold with a handwritten note taped to the side. Listen and correct the mistakes in this dictation.
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A dictation exercise: an Airbus A319 gets an unsafe gear indication on approach to Stuttgart. Listen, reorder the events, and check your answers.
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A first-conditional grammar activity built from the LaGuardia air-traffic-controller story: if-clause + present simple, main clause + will.
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FAA Moves to Fire Two LaGuardia Air Traffic Controllers
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