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NASA and Boeing Test Digital Technologies

NASA and Boeing have recently conducted field tests on digital taxiing and runway safety technologies.

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The same story at six levels

How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.

  1. A1

    NASA and Boeing are testing new technology.

  2. A2

    Recently, NASA and Boeing tested new airport technologies.

  3. B1

    NASA and Boeing have recently conducted field tests on digital taxiing and runway safety technologies.

  4. B2

    NASA and Boeing recently tested digital taxiing and runway safety technologies to improve airport operations.

  5. C1

    Large airports are highly complex environments where aircraft and ground vehicles share crowded spaces.

  6. C2

    Large airports operate as highly complex environments where aircraft and ground vehicles must constantly share crowded spaces.

Key words

Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.

conduct
to organize and carry out an activity
taxi
moving slowly on the ground before takeoff or after landing
obstacle
things that block your way or stop progress
collision
accidents in which two or more things crash into each other
trajectory
the curved path of an object flying through the air or space
autonomy
the ability to act and make decisions independently

Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.

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