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Orbitz "Labs" Tools Help You Figure Out When and How to Book Travel
The internet has made shopping for tickets and the like infinitely easier than before. But it certainly hasn't totally killed the uncertainty that comes with booking. How do you know when to book so...
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Air Force Is Sending Brand New Cargo Planes Straight to the Boneyard
The C-27J Spartan is a hell of a plane. Famous for its ability to take off from unfinished runways, it's a staple used by militaries around the world, including the United States. At least it was until...
View ArticleThe Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: 43,000 Feet
Watch as a 'chuteless statistician is sucked from an airplane and spends his final moments calculating exactly how many moments he's actually got left. The answer is 3:48.Read more...
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The F-111 Aardvark: A Flying Transformer With a Two-Man Escape Pod
Packing cutting-edge technologies and pioneering design elements, the General Dynamics F-111 "Aardvark" was among the most ambitious aviation programs of its era. Even the plane's humble ejection...
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Why the hell are these F-18 pilots taking off from public roads?
Watch these F-18 pilots training to take off and land on public roads, a skill they used to practice more often back in the Cold War days, when they had to be ready in case the Soviet Union decided to...
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The real world Maverick doing one of his crazy Tomcat stunts
Unlike Maverick, Dale "Snort" Snodgrass was a real F-14 Tomcat pilot. The Tomcat pilot, according to the US Navy: He's considered the "highest time Tomcat pilot, with over 4,800 hours and more than...
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A Co-Pilot Just Hijacked His Own Plane to Seek Asylum
As emigration plans go, this one was at least ambitious: a co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Italy hijacked his own plane this morning to try and seek asylum in Switzerland.Read more...
View ArticleJust Look How Much Airplane Wings Flex in Crosswinds
Landing in a crosswind can be terrifying, but just watch this video and see how much the wings of a Boeing 767 flex during severe turbulence. It's... disconcerting.Read more...
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The First Supersonic Private Jet Has Huge Screens Instead of Windows
Windows are kind of a drag for airplanes—literally. They add extra weight, weaken the body, and generally slow the aircraft down. That's why the new Spike S-512 Supersonic Jet won't have any. Instead,...
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Why Don’t Commercial Airplanes Have Parachutes for Passengers?
Seatbelts and airbags in cars save passengers lives. Parachutes save people who, for a variety of reasons, exit a plane in mid-flight. So why aren't parachutes provided to passengers on commercial...
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The Amazing Antonov A-40: A Flying Tank
When it comes to war, innovation is key and WWII saw more insane ideas and weapons of war developed than perhaps any before it. One of the more surreal was the Antonov A-40, colloquially known as the...
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The Incredible Flying Tanks of WWII
Given how devastatingly effective both newly-invented tank and airplane technologies proved during World War I, it was only a matter of time before enterprising military designers on both sides of the...
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Cool composite image of a fully armed F-35 doing a 360-degree roll
Oh wow. This awesome image by Matthew Short for Lockheed Martin's Code One Magazine—spotted by David Cenciotti—is now my new phone background. Here's the full photo, for your downloading pleasure:Read...
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Boeing's Bird of Prey: A Prototype Jet Worthy of the Klingon Empire
From the U-2 Dragon Lady and A-12 Oxcart , to the SR-71 Blackbird and D-12 Ramjet Drone , there's been no shortage of exotic aircraft (and UFO sightings) in the skies over Nevada's Area 51. But among...
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Beautiful time-lapse of The Boneyard, the airplane cemetery in Arizona
Impressive time-lapse video of The Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, 2,600 acres of desolate desert where 5,000 military airplanes went to die. It makes me sad to look at them, but...
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Grandpa had a horse.
Grandpa had a horse. Father, a horseless carriage. Today —and tomorrow— you will have wings. — Print ad circa 1946 for Alcoa Aluminum via X-Ray Delta Read more...
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China Is Deploying Smog-Busting Drones So Its Airports Can Stay Open
With smog in Beijing so bad it's forced pilots to land blind and officials to shut down the airport, China has unveiled a new plan to test drones that spray smog-clearing chemicals around airports....
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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Is Having Wing Cracking Problems
The Wall Street Journal reports today that Boeing's long-suffering 787 Dreamliner has hit yet another snag: At least 42 newly-produced jets may have hairline fractures along the wings. Luckily, the...
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You Must Read This Test Pilot's Story of an SR-71 Disintegrating Midair
This story has been kicking around the internet for awhile, but man oh man oh man is it worth a read. Test pilot Bill Weaver was flying an SR-71 Blackbird on an experimental evaluation flight when a...
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The 500 MPH Superplane That Bugatti Had to Hide From the Nazis
This is the Bugatti Model 100P: A 900 HP, 500 MPH, race plane imagined by none other than legendary automotive designer Ettore Bugatti, so technologically advanced that it could have single-handedly...
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