The Design Secrets of Luxury First Class Airplane Seats
If you think being packed on an airplane with strangers sucks, then you're probably a pleb like us who flies economy. But first class? It's an entirely different alcohol-lubricated world up there—a...
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You Definitely Can't Afford a Round-the-World Trip In a Four Seasons Jet
Most of us can't afford the luxury of being comfortable while traveling , but if you're loaded, fancy hotel chain The Four Seasons wants to fly you around the world on a nine-destination trip in a...
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AT&T Plans to Bring You LTE on Airplanes
With the FCC blessing the use of smartphones —and their wireless plans—on planes, perhaps it was only a matter of time until carriers started designing services tailored for the skies. Re/code reports...
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Could a Simple Design Tweak End Airplane Armrest Battles for Good?
Airplane seats are already cramped enough without having to fight off some stranger literally elbowing in on your turf. One Hong Kong-based design outfit, though, thinks it may have found the answer...
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Daredevil seaplane pilot takes off from a towed truck trailer
As far as unusual airplane maneuvers go, this seaplane pilot taking off a towed truck trailer has to be up in the very top. And yes, physics always work—given a certain speed, weight and aerodynamic...
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Watch the best US Air Force combat squadron dogfighting like in Top Gun
Maverick and the Goose have nothing on the pilots of the 67th Fighter Squadron—the Fighting Cocks flying out of Kadena Air Base in Japan, who won the Raytheon Trophy for air-to-air excellence. The...
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How Airplane Evacuation Slides Deploy In Under 6 Seconds
It's probably quite a bit different when you see one from inside a plane, but from down here on the ground, watching airplane evacuation slides deploy is pretty damn mesmerizing. Thankfully, Core77...
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Cool video of nine jet fighters flying in perfect formation
Cool video of a diamond formation perfectly executed by four Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrums and five Sukhoi Su-27 Flankers. It was part of the Russian military parade for the 69th anniversary of Victory Day...
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Watch these aircraft avoiding a catastrophe at the very last second
I knew that all the airplanes and helicopters in this compilation of fatal accidents avoided at the last second weren't going to crash. I knew nobody got injured or died. I knew all these things and...
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A-10 Thunderbolt attack jet lands on a German highway
It's hard to believe that it was less than seven decades ago that German highways were used by Luftwaffe pilots on their Messerschmitt bf109s or Focke-Wulf Fw 190s as improvised airstrips, but it's...
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The Rafale really looks like a fighter from the future in these images
These images may or may not correspond to a refueling incident between a KC-135 Stratotanker and a French Air Force's Rafale jet fighter, but I don't really care because they are just an excuse to say...
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How Historians Recovered the Only Surviving Nazi "Flying Pencil"
Many good sea tales begin with a fisherman snagging his net on an underwater object, and this tale is no different.Read more...
View ArticleThis B-52 Bomber Is Now a Network Hub With Wings
The B-52 bomber is one the US Air Force's most iconic airplanes—but it's also beginning to show its age. Now, Boeing has decided to bring it right up-to-date, though, with its new Combat Network...
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That Time a Commercial Aircraft Ran Out of Fuel Mid-Flight
On July 23, 1983, in the small town of Gimli, Manitoba, Captain Robert Pearson and Co-Pilot Maurice Quintal expertly glided a 100-ton Boeing 767carrying 69 people to a safe landing without engines,...
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Bomber pilot saves the day in Boeing 737 emergency landing
This is US Air Force Captain Mark Gongol and his usual ride, a B-1B Lancer. But on December 30, 2013, Gongol wasn't flying his four-engine supersonic strategic nuclear bomber. He was just one of the...
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How Turbulence Happens, and Why It's Not So Scary After All
Turbulence: spiller of coffee, jostler of luggage, filler of barf bags, rattler of nerves. But is it a crasher of planes? Judging by the reactions of many airline passengers, one would assume so;...
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How a Better Food Tray Is Saving Virgin Atlantic Millions
Every ounce counts when you're hoisting several hundred tons of steel into the air and flying it across an ocean. So does every second flight attendants spend waiting on the people inside. Those...
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Google Flight Search Can Now Plan a Magical Mystery Tour For You
Fresh out of vacation ideas? Well, Google Flight Search now has an "I'm Feeling Lucky" button that allows you to find a random destination to jet off to.Read more...
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The Three Biggest Airlines Just Made Carry-On Sizes Even Smaller
It's a tale as old as time: Traveler meets luggage. Traveler falls in love. Traveler buys luggage. Traveler causes a scene as flight attendant forces traveler to pay $75 for improperly-sized baggage....
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Amazing close-up photos capture war planes and birds' majesty in motion
I've seen many photos of airplanes and nature in my life, but very few photographers get close to Tom Dean's ability to capture any kind of flying bird. The action, the right mix of motion blur and...
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