An Entire Day of All of Europe's Air Travel, Visualized
This stunning video shows all the flights that cross Europe on a typical summer day. Beautifully animated, it really provides a great insight into the intensity of modern air travel.Read more...
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How the Granddaddy of US Recon Planes Is Helping Search for Flight 370
The mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 off the coast of Vietnam has prompted a massive multinational maritime search for hints of the plane's fate. Among the growing armada of...
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This Absurd Flying Whale Ushered in a New Age of Stealth Technology
Not every program DARPA undertakes can be another Big Dog—the agency has had its fair share of fizzled experiments over the years—but even those failures can yield exciting new insights. Just look at...
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NASA's Vomit Comet Trains Astronauts in the Ways of Weightlessness
With limited lab space aboard the ISS and skyrocketing launch costs, only the very best extra-terrestrial experiments make it into orbit. To put prospective experiments and astronauts alike through...
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This looks like an F-16 flying an inch over a perfectly calm lake
Ron Elkind took some really cool photos at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, like these two USAF F-16 from the Thunderbirds air demonstration squadron mirroring each other.Read more...
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Watch the Chinese Air Force bombing the Yellow River to destroy its ice
The Yellow River has been completely frozen for weeks. So much that it doesn't flow. China's flood prevention authority decided that, before the snow melts and a huge clustefuck ensues, they should...
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Why It's Taking Satellites So Long to Find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Today, we're hearing yet another report about a satellite that has spotted "potential objects," which might be floating wreckage from the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Today, those images...
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I can't believe this twisting plane managed to land in such bad weather
The pilot in this twisting and turning plane must be ridiculously disciplined, have palms that never sweat, a personality that never stresses and big brass ones because that's what it takes to land a...
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The Insanely Expensive F-35 Is Delayed Again, Now Because of Software
A government report reveals that the DOD's F-35 will be delayed yet again. This time, the problem is stalled software development. It's just the latest in a long line of delays and problems. Read more...
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This Super-Sized Cargo Plane Carries NASA's Biggest Loads
When NASA needs to ship its outsized spacecraft components between production, testing, and launch facilities around the country, there is only one plane big enough, powerful enough, and—most...
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Listen to the awesome cast of The Lion King start singing on a plane
This is either the best flight ever—if it wasn't delayed and you managed to eat and rest beforehand—or the worst flight ever—if you're trying to catch up on sleep and are stuck next to an oversized...
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8 hours of airliners departing from Los Angeles in one single photo
Los Angeles architectural photographer Mike Kelley posted this awesome image of almost all the departures and some of the arrivals at LAX during a period of eight hours last Sunday. You can buy the...
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The Crazy Things Delta Does to Cancel Fewer Flights Than Any Airline
Last year, Delta Air Lines canceled fewer flights than any other airline, scratching just 0.3 percent of its flights. That's more than five times better than the industry average. It's an obsession...
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I love it when Thunderbird F-16s fly crazy close to make a mirror image
It never gets old. My mind never stops being blown. The US Air Force pilots who somehow fly their Thunderbird F-16s so impossibly close like this will never become any less impressive. I wouldn't even...
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They may look like toys but this is NASA's amazing airplane collection
Look at this amazing collection of airplanes from NASA. It's so cool that you may think it's fake, like some kid put all his toys on the sidewalk. But no, they are all real. They use them for...
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Northrop's Flying Ram Would Have Sliced Enemy Planes in Midair
War drives technological innovation like little else. No proposal is too ambitious, impractical, or downright foolhardy for consideration if it provides a strategic advantage. This school of thinking...
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A Teenager Somehow Survived a Five-Hour Flight in a Jet's Wheel Well
A 16-year-old boy managed to stow away in the wheel well of a flight headed from California to Hawaii on Sunday—and then survived the 5-hour trip despite freezing temperatures, low pressures and...
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This Vertical Take-Off Drone System Is So Versatile It's Scary
Drones are getting pretty advanced, and they're continuing to prove their usefulness. They can do anything from dodge bullets to land on aircraft carriers . And up next is an emerging new class of...
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Man, look how crazy close Blue Angels fighter jets fly together
Absurd. Like seriously. Look at this fleet of Blue Angels fighter jet planes fly in a perfect pattern in a practice session. The flight pattern they were practicing, I'm assuming here, is called...
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The Typhoon looks like a cool futuristic fighter with its new top tanks
This picture—taken by airplane photographer Luigi Sani—shows a weird smooth hump on the central fuselage of an Eurofighter Typhoon. It's one of its two new top Conformal Fuel Tanks, designed to...
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